Skylight and jeans on a nail 100 x 80cm
Another skylight piece still taped to the table
Moon rising with skylight 80cm sq
Risen moon with skylight 80cm sq
Derelict chapel (& daughter Hannah who came for lunch today)
Path
Cemetery fence (slate)
One end of studio today with 3 50cm panels in progress on the table in the foreground
One nearly done (left) and a new darker one just started 100 x 80cm on canvas
‘Corris 2’
Finished
50cm on panel
Corris 3
Finished
50cm on panel
Very happy to be here
Got set up in my cosy attic eyrie
Shopped for basics next door at Andy and Adams
Taped a few bits (coarse jute and watercolour paper) to the freshly plastered gable end
Started with red and orange, then black, then blue, then a few marks – have to start somewhere!
Cooked a spinach and chickpea curry with brown rice
Feet up by the stove
Bliss
I am delighted to be artist in residence at An Gailearai in Gweedore, Donegal
First day today, very productive
First layers laid down
Display of completed work
Making progress with several layers building up, and the first random marks on a canvas 80 x 100cm
Early marks and layers on 2 paper pieces taped to the wall, each c. 75 x 55cm
6 of the bigger pieces as I left them at 5pm today, looking forward to going back tomorrow
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