Drawings of Sandycove coastline

I spent a few days doing a series of drawings in Sandycove some time ago. A beautiful line is a precious thing to me. A line is a pure form of expression. At one stage , I had to stop drawing , as I felt seasick.

These are a few of the drawings .

I did some oil paintings from these, but the spontaneity of the drawings were the best fun.

"Strangled Expression" Sculpture, Recession in Ireland

"Strangled Expression" Tree and rope It's Ireland, it's 2013 Times are hard for many people. The recession is biting big-time The man on the street has lots to say, but nowhere to be heard

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....

Community Arts - Dublin Zine Fair, Ranelagh Arts Centre. Handmade Cards.

Free Community Event Here is an excerpt from a publication in The Irish Times re our Zines Fair in August 2011, from an interview done with Sarah Bracken , our artistic director. ...."Zines are self-produced publications. Most often, they were made by hand and duplicated using a photocopier. Print runs were short and the aesthetic was a DIY one: cut-and-paste typography, own photos, and a general disregard for publishing etiquette. Zines have been ubiquitous here since the 1970s, peaking in the late 1980s/early 1990s, but there is still a dedicated scene today. This weekend the first annual Dublin Zine Fair, organised by Sarah Bracken, takes placeat the Ranelagh Arts Centre. “I have been going to the London Zine Symposium for the past few years and felt that we really needed one here,” says Bracken. “Having a fair in London has made the scene grow and has inspired so many people to make, or seek out, independently produced publications, so we hope that happens...

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