Nov 1, 2017

Telling Tales by the Yarn

It's been a while since I wrote and there are no excuses. Soon it will be time to make new year's resolutions, but I am not going to wait until then. Enough said. 

After an exciting time with The Goose Field exhibition, the considerable dust has settled (for the moment at least). Along with many things I have neglected, my website has suffered in particular. Last August, in a rush to update it, I accidentally deleted everything.  The mistake has left me rigid staring into the empty space for months. 

In an effort to avoid the task, I beat a hasty retreat to the studio and I have been busy getting gloriously mucky and messy with masses of paint and wax and even more muck on a massive scale (for me, at least). It's been a great excuse to avoid touching my keyboard. But this is the morning, I am choosing to dust myself down and start again. I will be working hard to restore my website  . . . If you click on it now, it will look like it is still there and it looks just dandy . .  but it is stuck in a time warp and it is an enormous job to fix it.  If I were to press "make live now" the whole website would crumble away like a house of cards.  So, I must upload all the pictures again and label them all and get the sizes right and even after that there is, even more, to be done. 

This is only half of one big painting

On Wednesday, Nov 15, I will be on The Mermaid's stage with Donald Teskey with whom I have been engaged in a mentoring relationship for over a year now. If you would like to come and hear us talk about our big adventure, and see some pictures . .  it will be held in theatre of The Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow on the night of November 15 at 7pm. 




life as an artist

I write about life as an artist and the challenges that this choice presents. I was born without arms in 1961 and this makes my painting demanding, my life stimulating and my choices complex. I like it like this.