"Fairytale of the Irish" mixed media painting

"Fairytale of the Irish"

Mixed media 90cms x 120cms

Christmas Eve morning at 6am..

an image calling..

The Irish Times providing inspiration..

The Pogues "Fairytale of New York" playing in the background..

"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

"Moynalty Community Outdoor Art Exhibition " EPIC Award nomination Ireland and British Isles.

Post- script: In 2013, Moynalty won the National Tidy Towns award. The following community arts project was mentioned on the adjudicators report, and we like to think that the community energy involved in this outdoor art exhibition contributed in some small way towards that award! http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/moynalty-co-meath-named-ireland-s-tidiest-town-1.1521107 Left to right- Helen Farrell, John O Brien, Heather Buchanan, Catherine Mc Cormack, Deirdre Gilsenan. Weighed down by the gloom of a long winter in 2012, our thoughts went to dreaming of longer days when leaf buds would form on trees, birds would start to look for materials with which to build their nests and a certain light would appear in our daylight hours. A notion formed of creating outdoor artpieces alongside nature, as she created the following season. A brave or foolish notion ? I wasn't sure , but it didn't go away. It became stronger, and we began to conside...

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....

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