4.30 saturday evening
frustrated by confusing results with 2 square stones paintings, so decided to lay the foundations for 2 new big ones
red on one, orange on the other first
then blue on both
then dark green on orange one, light green on red one
getting to dark to see the colours properly
call it a day
home again now and contemplating the work I made whilst nursing a bad cough
particularly pleased wirh this, one of a pair on paper, with many others on a theme of stone paintings inspired by my visit to Ceide Fields
I really loved my 9 days at Ballinglen. I might apply for a residency there, hopefully for 2016
I am on a weeks workshop with artist Rebecca Crowell at Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle County Mayo
http://www.ballinglenartsfoundation.org/
My work this week is very influenced by a fantastic day trip we made out to Ceide Feilds
This is a huge extensive neolithic site, where a network of over 50 miles of buried stone boundary walls have been identified from a farming community living on this coastline over 5,000 years ago. The individual rocks from here and around another landmark, Benwee head, and the intriguing plan of the layout of the walls have found their way onto the surface of these paintings
three stages of the same painting
mussels colony 1
oil and cold wax and graphite on 80cm sq wooden panel
these 3, each 80cm sq, oil and cold wax on canvas, are off to Letterkenny tomorrow for framing at Artworks
these 4 panels, each 25cm square, ‘ Making marks for Mayo’ are off to Stronach Gallery in County Mayo
http://www.stronachgallery.com
this one, ‘Summer light’, mixed media on canvas board, sold in Erratic Makers, Dungloe last week
this 50 cm square panel, oil and cold wax, called ‘territories’ has gone to the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast today, where it has been shortlisted for the winter show. Fingers crossed that it gets selected!
http://www.royalulsteracademy.com
This one, ‘ evening donegal’ was also selected for the autumn exhibition at Stronach Gallery
The show is called ‘Pretty far West, the Wild Atlantic Way’ and opens on 6th September
at long last a couple of hours in the studio
some works on paper finished
and 4 on canvas coming along nicely
I was supposed to be using some red today, didnt happen, maybe on Friday!
yellow and blue, colours of summer
Bought some new paints today as I have completely run out
Had to buy locally where there isn’t much choice
They only had red, yellow blue and white in big tubes, so I got all three
Realized that I don’t use red much, or not recently anyway
Is that something to do with mood?
Anyway, here are some red works from a few months ago
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