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Dan O'Neill, the son a Belfast electrician, took life classes at the Belfast College of Art and worked for a short period in the studio of fellow Belfast artist Sidney Smith. The advent of his painting career coincided with the outbreak of the Second World War; after the 1941 blitz of Belfast he took to salvaging wood and experimenting with wood carving. In 1949, he visited Paris and was much influenced by the work of the Post-Impressionists. In the early 1950s, O'Neill left Belfast with his wife and young child, moving to the village of Conlig, Co. Down where a small-scale artist's colony had evolved, with George Campbell and Gerard Dillon also living there. In 1958 he left Ireland for London. This image of West Belfast features the distinctive twin spires of St Peter's Cathedral and the Conway Mill.