saturday 15th November
layering – 3 layers completely covering on top of one another
watching Rebecca rescue and excavate
a piece of tissue with a transfer print made with the imprint of a plastic tree stencil
another tissue paper transfer print
Monday 17th
thinking about light and dark, white on black, lichen on rock
mushrooms before dawn
transfer techniques
blue powder pigment
a charcoal sketch and another tissue paper transfer
old lichen rubbings
small, textured works on paper or multi media board in oil and wax
sizes between 16 x 12cm and 25 x 16cm
all made in November at Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo
inspired by a trip to the neolithic field walls at Ceide Fields on the North Mayo Coast
I would love to mount these together and show in a small museum, library or somewhere interested in these 5 thousand year old artifacts from a community who lived and farmed in a time before the wheel and before the metal plough
If anyone is interested, from anywhere in the world, please contact me liz-doyle@live.com
12 small works on paper
getting there slowly
several new layers of cold wax medium and oil, and a few new graphite marks
removed some of the tape so I can see where I’m at
this one is probably my favourite so far
Will take them off the boards tomorrow, then choose 3 or 4 to do some more work on, and retape those 4 to the board
work in progress
oil and cold wax and graphite on cradled wooden panel 40cm sq
rocks and mussels
finished work
oil and coldwax on framed canvas board c. 50cm x75cm
These two paaintings, ‘underneath’ and’sea bed’ have been selected to be exhibited at Workshop, a new gallery space in Raval, Barcelona. I have just booked my flights to go over for the opening night.
Woa, you might say, isnt that a bit extreme to go so far just because two paintings have been selected for a group show?
Well the other exciting news is that while I am there I am going to be interviewed and therefore might appear in a new documentary film called Brand Irish being made by a film company based in Barcelona called PadiProductions
PadiProductions have won awards for their previous productions including Zero Tolerance
http://www.padiproductions.com/
Workshop and Brand Irish are both on Facebook and Twitter, and Brand Irish has a WordPress blog too
I have been looking more and more closely at rocks and sand and seaweed and mussels. Have taken a plethora of photos. Have posted to Facebook and twitter and Google+ and Tumblr and interest and LinkedIn and lost my passwords again and again
I have set the dehumidifier going in the studio. I have cleared up some of the mess. I have moved paintings around.
Now is the time
Well, tomorrow anyway!
New work seeding
three stages of the same painting
mussels colony 1
oil and cold wax and graphite on 80cm sq wooden panel
donegallizdoyle 