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.

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

• Half Moon Over Snowy Roofs
• Snowy Sunset, Dublin
• Snow View for Dog-Dog

I’ve also posted several Dublin snow photos over on Twitpic:

• The Joy of Snow
• Glenaulin Snows
• Winter Crossbar
• Trees in a Row in the Snow
• Every Branch of Every Tree
• Up on the Roof, the Snowy roof
• Snowball, Ballyfermot
• Spaghetti Snow
• Food Fight
• Clock Tower, Farmleigh
• Herringbone Snow
• Hellfire Club from Palmerstown

I suspect I’m not finished.