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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Stormy issues

Phew… what a day ! It’s blowing a gale outside and it feels like the conservatory is about to become airborne. Life is totally hectic and I haven’t been able to do a single piece of work.. art work.. since before Christmas. The ideal of only one day out of the studio [...]

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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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Printing…

Morning all, beautiful sunny day outside. 
I have been working this morning, experimenting with natural pigments.  I bought the pigments in powdered form in Vancouver when I was there a few years ago, and, of course, they have been sitting in my studio ever since.  Now, at last, I have decided to try them out, the [...]

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Pouring!

    It is pouring outside, I mean in bucket loads, thundering on the velux windows and slashing at the glass walls of the ’sun’ room.  It’s where I work every day, it’s now my workshop or studio, as well as a sitting area, a place to drink tea and do the crossword, to read or listen [...]

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