I haven’t been feeling good about my work for a while now, I’ve found it really hard to stay focused. So this is a post gathering together some of the things I’ve been working on, to remind myself that I am in fact occasionally productive.

  1. drew a red squirrel
  2. designed & printed some cards that are now for sale in a pottery shop and a café/wine bar
  3. chaffinch
  4. jays
  5. dug up and scanned some old monoprints
  6. did a clay workshop, made whatever this thing is
  7. sketched some animals from the Book of Kells
  8. painted a window
  9. made some sloppy monoprints
  10. started a large oil painting (51 inches wide) partly about Irish mythology and partly about the climate crisis.

Ephemera, Co. Monaghan, May 2023.

I had to leave Co. Donegal back in March of this year (housing crisis, zero craic). It was fairly devastating, I loved that place. I developed some kind of artist’s block and stopped drawing or painting for a long time.

Gradually I started taking photos again, forcing myself to seek out the beauty here in the midlands. Summers here are so lush and green.