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At the 2010 Irish Blog Awards at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Galway I will be exhibiting some paintings.

New Paintings
At this point I can’t tell you exactly how many paintings - because they’re not finished yet. The plan is to show paintings that haven’t been shown before, either online or in another exhibition.

Paintings in Progress
Follow this blog, and/or me on twitter, to get an idea of what paintings I’m working on. If you already do then you’ll have seen and/or heard of several of them already.

Watch Me Painting Live
While in progress these new paintings will feature on some live painting sessions courtesy of a webcam in my studio and Ustream.tv

Free Painting
I’ll try and organise another free painting blog guessable competition thing to coincide with the awards - we haven’t done one for a while. I need to add more paintings into the prizepool though, as well as think of a question.

Current Online Sale
I still have almost finished a fair few paintings that are not destined for the Blog Awards. While I now will be concentrating on the paintings for Galway I expect to finish some of the other ones over the next 2 weeks and add them into the current online half-price sale thing.

Bloggers
When I first started blogging about my paintings it never occurred to me that I would love blogging, not because it sells paintings but, because the blogs of others tell me about the people who are buying my paintings. I am thrilled to be part of the Blog Awards, and thank Damien for the opportunity to share my paintings with bloggers.

Galway
See you at the Radisson on March 27th. I’ll be wearing a lot of hair, a nervous frown, and a woolly jumper. Register to attend the awards

Today, and from time to time in the future, you can watch me painting live in my studio in Dublin.

There’s nothing planned or structured - as of yet anyway - but if you’re the sort of person who likes watching paint dry you might get something out of watching paintings inch forwards (and sometimes backwards) live.

A new sale of paintings. For the 1st week these are at half-price with free shipping worldwide. More paintings, including rural and urban Irish scenes will be added.

Men in C. 1
€65

Men in C. 2
€65

Birds, Wires 6
€95 SOLD

Birds, Wires 7
€95 SOLD

2 Rooks, 1 Wire
€65 SOLD

Clogher Hd
€39 SOLD

Tiger
€45 SOLD

Irish Street III
€49 SOLD

Irish Street IV
€49 SOLD

Bloody Foreland
€35 SOLD

Yellow Tree I
€35 SOLD

Dog & Ball
€35

Waterford II
€35 SOLD

Rooks, Grass II
€35 SOLD

Rooks, Grass III
€35

This photo of a large flock of Geese flying over Dublin West I took last week while out with the dog. I’m weak on Geese but I think they’re Barnacle Geese. They caught my eye flying from over Chapelizod to Ballyfermot but then did a 180 degree turn.

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Yes, I cropped this photo - there was a GAA goalpost ruining the shot.

More Photos
   • The doors of Dublin Lanes
   • Angkor Wat
   • Runners, Rook
   • Loads of Photos

I’m one of those people who likes moss so much it takes great discipline to resist taking hundreds of photos of the stuff. But I’ve probably taken a few dozen. This shot was of some moss in Lucan by my studio, taken as I went down to the village one cold morning for some milk.

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More Photos
   • Dublin, A Horse
   • No Parking
   • Snowy Sunset, Dublin
   • Loads of Photos

Just to update the re-roof watchers: I’m back in the studio and painting again.

It’s going to take a couple of months to get it back to rights following the renovations, mostly because I have to concentrate on getting paintings finished right now. So until I rescue and de-debris most of my boxes, I’ve set up half of the studio to work - like so:

You’re looking at 2 walls of paintings in progress. There are more not in view. The latest plan is for some of these to be posted in an online sale over the next couple of weeks, and others to appear in a show.

I’ll keep you posted.

The building itself is still a construction site covered in scaffolding, with heavy renovations ongoing right outside my door, but I should be able to accept visitors again very shortly. In the meantime you can always have a look at the photos of how the studio and yard looked before the renovations began.

Just a post to let everyone that the studio is still not back in a condition to accept visitors. The scaffolding went up in November, and the roof was taken off over 7 weeks ago. Throw in Christmas, the snow, burst pipes, and a technical matter relating to guttering, and I’m still not yet back in there painting.

It’s a construction site and, I suspect, will be for some time:

This is what it looks like inside. Half of the studio, the whole length of it, has survived with just felt for a roof. This would be the half with the wet sections.

Somewhere under there is everything but some paints and brushes, and most paintings in progress. That’s a whole lot of art materials as well as things like my sketchbooks, photos, and art reference books. And since most stuff was moved into these piles by other people, I don’t know where most things are.

This is down the end behind the tent:

So I’ll have a spot of cleaning to do when I do get back in.

Apologies to everyone I’ve had to turn away in the last couple of months, but I think now it really is only days away from my return.

I don’t do well being separated from my stuff.

Here’s the 2nd of 2 paintings finished recently that went to Moscow.

To The Beach
40.5 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 inches)

I started this painting so many years ago I can’t even remember where exactly it’s of anymore. It was originally of a scene somewhere in the Killary Harbour area, the fjord that separates Connemara from Mayo. I’ll have changed it since then though, because you can do that with a paintbrush, and my memory isn’t what it used to be.

Before my brief attempt at living in Donegal, north of Killary was where I had most looked to live (after fruitless searches for a cheap cottage on Innishmaan).

When it was finished it went straight to Russia with Coast, The West, which is why it’s not a great photo - the light was lousy in the few minutes I had with it.

To The Beach is SOLD.

Have a look at paintings available for sale

I’ve put together a page of photos.

It highlights many of the individual photos I regularly post, and also links to collections and collages that I’ve posted on other sites as well as here on Bicyclistic.

The plan is to link up more collections, including many from my travels that have yet to be posted anywhere - probably because they’ve never been scanned.

Here’s a new painting finished a few days ago.

Coast, The West
23 x 18 cm (9 x 7 inches)

Sometimes with landscapes I start with somewhere in particular in mind, and then I take liberties which I hope results in a painting of my experience there. This is one of those times.

Coast, The West was SOLD upon completion and went directly to Moscow. I currently have several paintings in the same style nearing completion. They should be posted here for sale later this month.

Have a look at paintings available for sale