Bogland 2
This image is inspired by Seamus Heaney’s poem Bogland. ‘They’ve taken the skeleton of the great Irish Elk out of the bog’ Size: 40 x 29 Edition: 6 Medium: Collagraph Price: unframed: €250
DetailsThe Watchers These silent trees keep watch over the valley below. Size: 29 x 20 cm Edition: 10 Medium: Collagraph Price: unframed: €150
DetailsI have been in Wales for three and a half weeks. I have done a lot of walking in the hills around, up through forests and slate quarries, by the river and fields, making the most of the unexpectedly good weather and taking notes and photographs. Trying to be better at identifying trees, watching the…
DetailsI have headed off again- this time back to Corris in Wales for four weeks. The last month has been full of all kinds of stuff other than creative pursuits not least being ongoing problems with the car. I have had everything fixed that could be fixed in relation to the oil and last Friday…
DetailsIt’s been a while again. I should do shorter less considered posts I suppose. I was thinking about changing the title to ramblings into the life of a middleaged/ older woman and just documenting stuff… any ideas? Maybe that could be interesting. At the moment I am in Tralee, my friend is practising instrumental pieces…
DetailsOn sunny mornings and lunchtimes I ate at this stone bench overlooking the sea, with the buzz of bees on the fuchsia bush at my back. On the grassy slope, tall fronds of purple loosestrife swayed in the breeze, the calm sea stretched out towards Scariff and the smaller Duinis island. Behind the islands the…
DetailsI am on a residency in Cill Rialaig in Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry. It’s over ten months since I was in Wales and last updated this blog though it’s often been on my mind. Blame it on settling in to the new house, on getting my studio built and organised, on trying to plant and structure…
DetailsThe boxes are not all unpacked in the new house but I have left it again to come back to beautiful Corris in Wales. The residency was booked long before I thought of selling and moving and naively when my house sold very quickly I assumed I would be well settled by September. Roll…
DetailsTwo weeks ago I sold my house and bought another. I had been thinking about it for about six months as for the past few years I have been struggling with a large mortgage. The process is by no means over – until contracts are signed there is still the potential for either…
DetailsI am delighted to have been invited to be a featured reader at the next session of The Listeners which takes place tomorrow night at Eden house in Rathfarnham. I love reading my work to an audience- there must be a lost performer in me perhaps somewhere back in another life. I have not been…
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