Landscapes

After doing the colour samples all the rest of my art time is taken up with looking at the landscape and taking photos as visual references.  The autumn landscape shone with bleached fields cut to the ground and vertical and horizontal stripes of colour everywhere you looked.   During the heavy frosts the colours were amazing blends of [...]

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Future choices

I am trying to make a choice on the path my life will take in the immediate future … the real difficulty is whether or not to leave my job to give me the time to do my art work. At the moment I am run off my feet with work and haven’t picked [...]

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Planning…

Another day and I am working on my plan of art action for the next couple of years. Many thanks go to Cathy Fitzgerald, Artlinks, for sending me the documented minutes of the mentoring session. It is useful to have as it helps to clarify the thoughts and keep the direction simple and unconfused. [...]

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Mentor ssession

I attended the mentoring session last Tuesday organised by Cathy Fitzgerald / Artlinks and Kilkenny County Council Arts Office. It was an extremely useful and informative session with many suggestions on how to further my artistic career, the direction to take with my work and where to go and how to approach galleries.  Cathy took notes on the [...]

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Artists’ statements.

Writing about my art…..  I have been trying to write an artists’ statement,  it’s about the hardest thing to do, along with trying to sell my work.  A good friend came up yesterday to give me a hand, and together, we managed to put together a reasonable statement.  I have to do this to be able [...]

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On the road again

Went to the Podcamp yesterday in Hotel Kilkenny, great day, great people and interesting wokshops.  I learned a lot, I mean a lot. 
Now I am trying to get my blog back on the road.  It’s been too long since I last wrote a post.  There always seems to be so much going on and so [...]

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