Art in the Open 2025
Art in the Open 2025 A Week of Painting, Connection and a Lovely Surprise Every summer, Art in the Open is a little anchor in my year. A week where everything else quiets down and it’s just painting, catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and soaking up all...
Bye 2024
Reflecting on 2024This year has been filled with creativity, growth, and memorable moments. Here's a look back at what has been an exciting chapter in my artistic journey: Solo Exhibition – 'Blooming Fields': Returning to solo exhibitions after a couple of years, I...
Summer work
wet Summer Throughout the summer, my primary goal was to paint outdoors as often as I could. Unfortunately, the weather didn't always cooperate, and even on the occasional clear day, I struggled to get organized and head out to paint. Nevertheless, despite these...
Painter’s FOMO
Waterford Trip and Painter's FOMO Ok so It's the summer, with a promise of some fine weather so thought to myself why not book a trip to Waterford same as last year? So booked myself into a hotel in Waterford, felt like it would be a good base and the views weren't...
2021
2021 Normally at this time of the year, I give a little review of the previous year listing the highlights etc but here I sit, pen in hand struggling to come up with anything. It doesn't seem like I have too much to talk about when it comes to 2021. Of course, it was...
St Patrick’s Day
St Patrick's Day Painting It has become a tradition that on St Patrick's Day I paint something green. This is from the photo I took in Courtown Woods and I was meaning to paint it for a long time. I've built this painting up by adding hundreads of small shapes which...
2020
2020 I was never a fan of summing up a year like it's some sort of book I just read and I have to give a book report. New year is just a date like any other and we can't just hit a reset button on Jan 1st as much as we might like to. But if I was to try and sum up...
Rose Petals
Rose Petal Picking My mum used to make jam filled doughnuts. They were the most delicious doughnuts I ever tasted and her secret was that she would add wild rose petals to the jam.There was a pink wild rose growing in our neighbourhood so whenever she was making jam...
Staying Home
Staying home. Here I am writing this post at the end of April, when I should be spending most of my time outdoors, creating or seeking inspiration. Walking, taking pictures but now, like everyone else, I'm confined to quarters. As the pandemic started I was staying...
2019 Farewell
2019 I am a bit late in saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new!2019 was a year of ups and downs, but I think more ups than downs.Looking back now at the amount of work I created I can see how busy I really was and I think it's all thanks to my new...