balcony

image

this is the view from my bed on the mezzanine

image

here is the cat

image

cropped closeup through the railings and last year’s Christmas tree lights

image

same view with sunshine

image

2 pieces of paper with paint and tape

image

tape off

image

60cm panel with tape and paint

image

tape off

image

a bit later

image

one of the paper pieces finished

MORE TOMORROW!

on a roll

The Doorway Gallery
24 South Frederick Street
Dublin

image

image

The Doorway Gallery is doing well for me and keeping me very busy. The 2 above, Donegal 1 & 2, are to be framed together for a customer as a large diptych

image

image

These 2 x 60cm panels, ‘mountains and bogroads’ went to Dublin by courier last week

image

image

image

image

The 4 panels above, ‘Skylight 1& 2’, each 90cm sq and ‘October 1& 2’ each 80cm sq went down by courier yesterday

The group show,  ‘Hidden’, which I have 2 pieces in, runs till 29th October, followed by Christsy Keeney’s solo show till mid November. Then there’s the wonderful Christmas exhibition.

Even during solo shows, my work and other gallery artists work is available in the downstairs gallery. Open Monday to Saturday 10- 6

http://www.thedoorwaygallery.com

50 paintings

My exhibition at An Grianan Theatre, in Letterkenny, county Donegal is next week and I’m making the final selections for the 50 paintings that will be included
The show is in 4 sections: Donegal, Ceide Fields (Mayo), Venice and Nepal, reflecting on the wonderful adventures I have had in the last 2 years
Here are a few paintings from each section to give you a flavour:

Donegal

image

image

image

image

Mayo (stones of the Ceide Fields)

image

image

image

Venice

image

image

image

Nepal

image

image

image

tolerate chaos

image

image

image

image

image

the first 5 stages of work on 3 canvases in my studio this morning
the initial trigger was twofold: Diebenkorn’s notes to himself about how to go about making a painting

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/diebenkorn-ten-rules

and there was a powercut

so I went with ‘tolerate chaos’ and also forced myself to not care about the first appearances of ‘prettiness’ and I didn’t ‘search for a subject’

image

image

image