Words and Pictures – Blog
Lovely Lough Erne
Lovely Lough Erne, Oil On Canvas, 2003, Helen McNulty
David at the Locke
David at the Locke by Helen McNulty Watercolour on Paper 2014
Lovely Lough Melvin
Painting of Lough Melvin Fishermen
The Unfinished …
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Sinking into the wave an inch from earth
Drowning in a shallow hypnosis
Rippling footsteps disintegrate the built world
Leaving a fractured trace of reality in its wake
Rain falls in perfect circles and there is the outline of my eye
As big as the sun
As I spy.
The Little One Said…
Memory makes a fool of me. I think I remember it, the many sisters in one bed, but I don’t remember anything at all. I don’t remember my childhood. I see pictures in Mammy’s photo albums. I go to that room in the house where we grew up and I try to recall something...
The Black Hat
Pomme, Self Portrait, Oil on Board, 75 x 75cm 2010 The Black Hat Empyrean Heights lay underneath his black felt hat, hiding deceptive black eyes. Lucifer was once an angel and if he were a real thing, he’d stride through cobble streets just like yer one, playing music...
Venus Sleeping
Venus Sleeping | 2020 | Watercolour on Paper | 10 x 14cm -- - Bushwhacking. —— —— 1/ Even the bracken / bricks it / in this bog. / / Tiny tufts of flax / Bow down the road / Plaques blaze the old names of townlands / Like gravestones. / / Do you remember / the time we...
Kitchen Windowsill
Kitchen Windowsill | April 2020 | Acrylic and Gouache on Paper | 10 x 14cm
The Dusty Bluebells – Children’s Playground Song and Dance.
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