by helenmcnulty | Apr 14, 2023 | Drawings, Storytelling, writing about family, writing about fathers
Dr Bach aka Daddy on New Year’s Day 2020 | Pencil on Paper | 21 x 14cm | January 2020---When we were children, daddy would make for each of us our own unique concoction of the Bach Flower Remedies. I needed cherry plum, mustard and something else I...
by helenmcnulty | Nov 12, 2021 | Painting, writing about family
Immersed in the light of the sun, she bathes with the angels. 2005. I sat by her bedside, she was laid out in a purple velvet scarf, her red hair gone. My camera was in my bag, my camera was always in my bag. So, I took it out and took her picture, in the dead...
by helenmcnulty | Aug 10, 2021 | Writing, writing about being a mother, writing about family
My daughter has taken to asking this question to me on numerous occasions in a day. It is my favourite question. Yesterday, I had a tricky mood day, I was feeling very tired and not in any form of gratitude thinking. In the evening, Venus (my girl) asked me the Why...
by helenmcnulty | Jun 22, 2021 | Drawings, Painting, Writing, writing about family
She was 93 and I think, by now, 99 people came from her.One woman in an armchair, in an old vernacular farmhouse, by a lake, in a borderland in Ireland who drew the world into her like a hug.I can feel the texture, and smell the smell of her fadge bread with hunks...
by helenmcnulty | May 8, 2021 | Drawings, Notebooks, Painting, writing about family
Kitchen Windowsill | April 2020 | Acrylic and Gouache on Paper | 10 x...
by helenmcnulty | Sep 30, 2020 | Songs, Storytelling, Writing, writing about being a mother, writing about family
Picking and then eating and cooking apples and blackberries is what the whole year leads up to.Mean Fhomhair, middle harvest or middle autumn is the Irish word for September.It is always my most prolific month of the year, I always try harder in September, maybe the...
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