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As part of our Ranelagh Arts community initiative, we ( being  ..the 4 resident artists in the centre at the time,) came together  to organise our first community workshop. We decided to aim it at the " more mature" in the community, as there seemed  to be loads happening for the young wans!!   It was deemed to be a great success by the participants ..who wanted to know when the next ones were..a good sign. We based the workshop on each persons memories, and worked with inks, paint, collage and clay , - not bad for one workshop . Everyone had such different personal memories to work from, making it very individual for each person . I'm posting photos of the workshop, the poster and the lovely window display following it in Ranelagh Arts Centre. Busy bees Happy bunnies Arty window More arty windows This is a really , beautiful ,stickand ink drawing of a ceonothus branch done by Maeve, one of our participants.

Going back before going  forward...  This installation piece was on exhibit in The Five Lamps Festival. The visual arts group show was loosely titled " Memories", to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the North Strand bombings.Jean Doyle had invited me to take part in this show and I wasn't sure what to do.  However, h aving read some of the memories of the survivor’s of   The North Strand Bombing’s   on the Internet, I was particularly moved by the following piece, submitted by Michael Ginnety.  Michael Ginnety’s story "I was five years of age at the time of the North Strand bombing. We lived in Newcomen Court, a small avenue facing the North Strand Cinema. I can clearly remember the night in question. My father had gone up to Summerhill with other men from the area, to help out, as they had been hit by a bomb earlier. The women were talking at the doorways when word came around that  the German plane was back overhead.   I was in bed with my two sisters. I

Welcome to my little corner of the world wide web.... which I am creating to remind me of interesting arty events and works I come across in small ways and bigger ways  on my travels. It's now August, and it's been an interesting and very fast year..I want to go backwards , before I go forwards , and remember some of the artystuff I was involved in this year, 2011.   In January, I started working on a big "clean up" and "do up" job in a room  in Ranelagh Arts centre, making it good for working in as a studio space.  It took me weeks of clearing, lifting, dumping, sorting, dusting, painting, nailing , glueing, buying and more, to make it ready to move my things into, but it was so worth it , because now at last, I have my own studio space.  It's one good feeling to be able to walk in to a work space, and everything is just as it was when I left it. I started working on a hubcap as a metal surface for an artpiece..it was a worldwide project