Welcome to my first post - Paper Sculpture on recycled hubcap, Landfill art project

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 , http://www.landfillart.org/ , I had been invited to participate in, whereby up to 1,041 artists from around the world had volunteered to reclaim an old disused hubcap, and make a piece of Fine Art from it. It didn't take me long to decide I would be working using torn, white, papers, to make a paper sculpture on it ..I had already been enjoying making paper images and sculptures from recycled papers. AND any proceeds from any of the completed hubcap pieces will go towards reforestation ..and that's close to my heart !!

I called it " Time to Fly", and there is a great gallery of metal canvases to look at on the site.

Here is another image of it,

I enjoyed sending it off across the Atlantic to Pennsylvania..Thank You to Ken Marquis for his vision and hard work in creating this project.

Community Arts - Irish Rugby Legends Portraits Exhibition, September 2011.

The enthusiasm for this exhibition came from Terry Connaughton, the director of Ranelagh Arts.. One of my all time memories of Terry will be of him - sitting huddled up, beside an electric fire, doing a days work, in layers of coats and scarves, in the depths of our coldest winter in my living memory ( remember night time temperatures of -17c , and daytime ones of -5c ) last winter, in Ranelagh Arts Centre. Terry arrived to the centre, everyday, - day after day, week after week , on the coldest , bleakest, most unfriendly days..and was often was the only one in there, working away..working towards his vision of RA being a vibrant, community hub of all the artforms. The Ranelagh Arts building was nothing like it is these days, there was a lot to do...still is ..and will be..and the future of it is uncertain. His all time hero ( since childhood) has been Jack Kyle, who has often been described as...

Doggie artworks

I love dogs, and this year I have been working on some doggie images. Here are a few..this one is of Sammy, my friend Jennie's Westie.... It is done with chalk pastel on Ingres paper, - I like the dry, chalky , matt, feeling of working in this medium. It can be dusty and messy to work with , but all this is forgiven, as these pastels are so easy to transport. "Boxer puppy", acrylic on canvas 30cms x 20cms Sometimes, a painting paints itself without much effort from the artist , and this is what happened here , - I was surprised to see this wee dog looking back at me. Some times this happens me when i work with animals. This is a mixed media work on canvas of Pucci, a much adored 2 year old lab. Not a great photo. This work is on a large canvas ( A1) size , and is worked up using acrylic, pastel and inks. Above is "Valentine", a mixed media on canvas. He is a rescue dog , an American bulldog crossbreed who was lucky t...

Mountpleasant Community Street Art Mural Project, Ranelagh Arts Festival.

One rainy, cold day in Spring 2013, a few of us were sitting in the back office of Ranelagh Arts Centre, wrecking our heads trying to think of new projects to put forward for Ranelagh Arts Festival later that year. Mountpleasant Mural Project was an idea we felt might work. It would involve collaborative Community Paintings, which would eventually be on display as outdoor art in a local area. We proposed that we would create 4 -6 permanent outdoor 2D artpieces for the enjoyment of local community for display in Mounpleasant Park in Ranelagh, Dublin...and that we would involve the the local RMDS Primary school, local community and park visitors in the creation of some of the pieces. At the end of it, we hoped to have a few o utdoor permanent paintings in the park for all to enjoy, and which would hopefully inspire community and other artists to the potential of projects like these in the city/country. We felt ...

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