Wood Kern in a field. 17 October 2009. Acrylic, pen and ink on paper 180 x 254mm
About Me
Monday, October 19, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Drawing by Oisín Fox. The hen is being squeezed top and bottom by some kind of implement (The small duck floating above was drawn by Emily Crowley-Holland). Pencil on paper, 140mm x 204mm.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
The sea
Bigger Rock, 29 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 275mm x 190mm
Big Rock - Black Cloud, 29 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 275mm x 190mm
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Sea
Island out of the Sea 2, 19 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Island out of the Sea 1, 19 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Land
Grid Bay, 23 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Bay1, 25 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Bay, 25 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Rock
High Rock 2, 19 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
High Rock 1, 19 February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Sea
Réalt na Mara 14. The estuary, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 13. Mainland, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 12. February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 11. Island through rain, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 10. View of the mainland, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 9. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 8. Rock, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 7. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 6. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 5. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 4. View from the boat, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 3. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 2. View of an island, February 2009,acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Réalt na Mara 1, February 2009,
acrylic on paper, approx 189mm x 140mm
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Sea
Estuary 4, February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, 188mm x 140mm
Estuary 2, February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, 188mm x 140mm
Estuary 1, February 2009
acrylic and ink on paper, 188mm x 140mm
Estuary, February 2009acrylic and ink on paper, 188mm x 140mm
Estuary 3, February 2009
acrylic and ink on paper, 188mm x 140mm
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
1261
Detail. There was a Battle Here, January 2007. Acrylic and ink on paper, 380mm x 284mm"The battle of Callan is... the decisive one in the history of Kerry. It effectively partitioned Kerry between the anglo-norman and the gaelic worlds, and kept the english influence out of south Kerry (and west Cork) for over 300 years." T.J. Barrington, Discovering Kerry.
The Sky
The War in Heaven, Lucifer and Michael slug it out.
Isaiah XIV
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
King James Bible
Friday, February 13, 2009
The Sky
Three Antenna Trees, 12 February 2009Acrylic o Paper, 140mm x 190mm
Engineer on a hill, 12 February, 2009Acrylic o Paper, 140mm x 190mm
(detail) Something up on the Hill, 12 February 2009
acrylic on paper, original 190mm x 277mm
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Jack
Jack Sprung, anti-fascist, republican, socialist and poet was buried in Coventry on Friday 6 February 2009.
The Sea
Fisherman, 26 January 2009You become a philosopher in ways because when the weather gets rough your life is at risk and you think about God and you think about yourself and your family and what you are doing in this world. You’ve a better understanding of the sea, of the weather, of the fish, the movement of fish, the seals, dolphins, seabirds. It’s an amazing place and it’s an amazing life and it’s an awful pity that young people now - because the fishing is in decline - won’t be able to go out and enjoy and feel what we have got from the sea. We must ask ourselves what are we doing in this world, how are we going to leave it to the next generation in the best possible shape?
Micheál O’Conchúir, fisherman, Ballyferriter
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Poetry and Science
Eleanor Barr in Bunhill Fields.Some persons of a scientific turn were once discoursing pompously, and, to him, distastefully, about the incredible distance of the planets, the length of time light takes to travel to earth, etc., when he burst out: 'It is false. I walked the other evening to the end of the earth, and touched the sky with my finger'; perhaps with a little covert sophistry, meaning that he thrust his stick out into space, and that, had he stood on the remotest star, he could do no more; the blue sky itself being but the limit of our bodily perceptions of the infinite which encompasses us. Scientific individuals would generally make him come out with something outrageous and unreasonable. For he had an indestructible animosity towards what, to his devout, old-world imagination, seemed the keen polar atmosphere of modern science. In society, once, a cultivated stranger, as a mark of polite attention, was showing him the first number of the Mechanic's Magazine. 'Ah, sir,' remarked Blake, with bland emphasis, 'these things we artists HATE!' The latter years of Blake's life was an era when universal homage was challenged for mechanical science – as for some new evangel; with a triumphant clamour on the part of superficial enthusiasts, which has since subsided.
From the Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist, 1863. Reproduced in Pandaemonium by Humphrey Jennings
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Rock
A Little Lost on Hungry Hill, 21 January 2008"If attempting a circuit of Comnagapple be very sure to stick to the broad West ridge as much as possible. The incredibly rough 'benches' of ribbed rock that define the Caha easily become a dispiriting maze and destroy any notion of distance measured 'as the crow flies'."
From http://mountainviews.ie
Friday, January 23, 2009
Shadow
Possibly a Courtesan on a Misty Morning, 21 January 2009In the spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint red and wisps of purplish cloud trail over them.
The opening lines from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, trans. Ivan Morris.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Disasters
Disasters series. All these little paintings are from a series made (more or less) on the 5th, 6th and 7th of October 2001 as the US began its invasion of Afghanistan. Most are approx. 190mm x 145mm (7.5 inches x 5.5 inches), a few are around 205mm x 145mm. All are acrylic on paper:
( SAUNDERS WATERFORD Mould-made, 100% cotton)
( SAUNDERS WATERFORD Mould-made, 100% cotton)
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
First Day
We went along with it:Shannon airport and Irish airspace are being used on a daily basis by US warplanes, with the permission of the Irish Government, in contravention of international laws on neutrality, in spite of the Irish Governments claims that Ireland is still a neutral state. Monday July 28, 2008 21:22
Report by Edward Horgan
indymedia ireland www.indymedia.ie
Monday, January 19, 2009
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