making images with paint
Surrounded by the lull
Of the lapping amniotic salty sea
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On a calm day blue green
Serene as a lullaby
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In a storm she crashes
And collapses the beach defences
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Triangle mountain transcends
The violent fickle pull of the tide
He manifests new pathways
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Pierces the clouds of self abnegation
And affirms my right
To the light of creation
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Home of the sun god Lugh
Sharp granite peak of enlightenment
Pointer to the stars
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4 fresh bright breezy works for the day that’s in it 🍀
In progress
These 6 small pieces ( two are 12″ square, the other four, 6″square) are being mounted and framed as 3 diptychs for my solo show at Mark Borghi Fine Art in Bridgehampton, Long Island, New York which opens on 20th October.
I’ve run out of supports again!
Paintover time!
Trying to get a painterly, layered, rich, unfussy, not too ‘overworked looking’ effect with acrylics. Using a gloss gel medium. Applying with a squeegee. Layering by transferring onto and from baking paper. Very frustrating. Looking forward to getting back to my oils and cold wax medium in my studio at home!
Some images from an A2 (60x40cm) cartridge pad, and an A4 (40x30cm) brown card sketchbook
Here are some of my favourite moments and paintings from the last 12 months
And here’s to a peaceful, healthy and creative year ahead for us all. Namaste!
4 panels, untitled, each 70 x 50cm, in my studio, made in November
‘Yesterday was red’ aka ‘Pink’
55cm sq on canvas, made in November
‘Vessels’, made in October/November
Shipped rolled up in a tube to a customer in Pennsylvania just in time for Christmas
‘Split’ a diptych, each piece around 90×70-80cm. Currently being stretched and framed by the wonderful Seamus Quinn, at Artworks in Letterkenny, County Donegal
One of a group of paintings, displayed at the Show House, designed by Collette Ward Interiors, at the Ideal Home Show in Dublin this Autumn. This one was subsequently placed with a private collector
Celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary in August this year, though actually this photo was taken out our gorgeous niece Nancy’s wedding!
So thrilled with my fantastic solo show at GreenFuse Gallery, in Westport, County Mayo in May. Photo shows me and the gallerist Vincent O’Donoghue. The paintings behind us are ‘Blood and Concrete 1&2’ which were later also shown at The Model in Sligo, and one of them (the one behind Vincent) was selected by a private collector
‘Due West’, the signature piece of my solo show, of the same name, at Green Fuse Gallery. Its huge, about 150 x250cm
The making of ‘Ruined gables, night painting’ was a first for me! Painted in the middle of the night with very poor light in the studio, but I love it!
A view of the ruined ‘clachan’ (group of cottages close together) on Cruit which inspired the ‘Ruined gables, night painting’ above
My largest painting to date, ‘Tower’, about 1m x 3m, painted at the end of 2015 and sold to a private collector who lives on another, even tinier island off the North West coast of Donegal. Getting it delivered was quite a feat in itself
Looking forward to loads more adventures in creativity in 2018. Maybe bigger and bolder works! Looking forward to keeping in touch with you all and hearing your news and comments
Oh! And I had a new grandson in May too! Welcome to littleBryn Malachy Doyle!
Two paintings today, both with underpainting in bright red and orange, but surface colours mostly blues
This one is my regular size, 80 cm sq
Title :’All manner of things I’ll never understand’
This is a big one, 160cm x 220 cm, unstretched canvas, stapled to the studio wall. ‘Is there anyone there?’
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