Ed lived in Tokyo, Japan from 2014 until 2018, an experience that had a lasting effect on his work. While in Japan, he studied Mokuhanga printing with a master printer and continues to make woodblock prints, combining them with collage

In 2022, he showed a major painting called Nothing Gold Can Stay at the RHA. The painting was made on 100 panels. It was painted during the pandemic. The title comes from the Robert Frost poem of the same name. Ed has had two one-man shows at the Oliver Sears Gallery in Dublin — The Nature of Time in 2014 and Woods in 2016. In 2018, No Ordinary Place, Paintings from Japan was shown at the Ballinglen Gallery in Co. Mayo. In 2012, he exhibited Diary at the RHA as part of the Futures 12 exhibition. He painted the view from his studio every day for over a year. The piece includes 366 paintings and is over 10 metres long

He is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 
2022 and shows regularly at the Graphic Studio 
Gallery, SO Fine Art and with Stoney Road Press.

His work is in many private collections including Belmond Grand Hibernian, Department of Foreign Affairs, Joseph Walsh Studios, Office of Public Works Opera Ireland and XL Group plc.