Words and Pictures – Blog
Notre Dame
A week before Easter is a fitting time for a religious catastrophe. On Monday night the 15th April in the year of our lord 2019, Our Lady, Notre Dame ignited into flame shortly before 7pm in the evening. The epicentre was the roof of the cathedral. The fire was...
City Faeries
City Faeries, Oil on Canvas, 100cm x 100cm, 2003 Architect, Floppy Disk, Temple Bar Cobbles shone, little tiny bottle caps embedded themselves into the putty cracks between the stones and boy did they glisten among the fag ends, bits of yellow polysterene and pigeon...
Factory
Over the road there are women, sewing, visible through the open door. It is lunch time, they are still working. Yesterday when I peeped over on the hot afternoon, they were in there with the door closed, windows boarded up, but I could hear the drilling of the presser...
A Message in a Small Thing.
Drumskinny (from Irish Droim Scine, meaning 'ridge of the knife/edge') I I went down to the river where my phone repeatedly beeped in my pocket: 'Welcome to the United Kingdom". Another message, on the other side of Europe, saying that I was now safely home. Friendly...
Oh to be Compost
The Weaving Song (Bagpuss)
Lyrics of The Weaving Song The Weaving Song. I’m a weaver, a master weaver,I’ve got a loom where the best cloth's made.Plain cloth, twill, brocade or satin,I’m the master of my trade.Shed the warp and swing the shuttle,Beat the reed, the weft is laid. I can wind a...
God Retires
After The Deluge
Hope Mountain
Painted in 2006 from inside a hospital Day room. (A4 Paper ) I imagined the outside, this hopeful place, this place where I would be free to roam and free to be and free to see the world. Here is an excerpt from the diary that this was painted in: Until Concept...
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Wicklow Mountains, Ireland