Cartoons & Curiosities
Like many Artists (and even though we’re told we should stick to one style), I love exploring new things.
Often I do this in my sketchbooks (of which, I’ve far too many….).
Sometimes though, I do it in ways I can share with you.
That’s what’s in this gallery.
I hope you enjoy spending a bit of time in the side-roads of my painting!
Hanging Grass
€95
A direct ink impression of a piece of ornamental grass. With added sunshine.
Ink on Paper
24cm x 32cm
Pilgrim at Noon
€85
This fella and his dog turn up from time to time. They’re searching for something in life, though they nor I know what it is. Often they find a tree to shelter under.
Ink on Paper
A5: 15cm x 21cm
Mounted to A4: 21cm x 30cm
Pilgrim Climbing
€75
Pilgrim and Dog wander through the world. Uphill is as good as downhill. There’s no destination, only the journey.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
The Weirding Tree
€85
There’s definitely a touch of the gothic in this one. More unsettling than calming perhaps. For those with a touch of the halloween about them….
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Gathering Darkly
€85
Those Autumn evenings when the nights are drawing in, and Rooks appear in the trees to watch darkness gather
Ink & Acrylics on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Pilgrim at Dusk
€55
As the night gathers, Pilgrim and Dog still have a way to go. The mountains can be dangerous at night.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Fire Flow
€85
I wet the paper and let the ink flow. I guide it where I feel I should and respond to what it chooses to do.
I love the mixture of structure and form that emerges.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Amorphous
€85
For all the world I’ve no idea why this makes me think of a sea-creature.
But it does.
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
The Witching Hour
€85
I love the times of transition: dusk, dawn, the coming or going of a storm.
Those edge-times are when different understandings can break through.
Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Bamboo
€85
This is charcoal overpainted with a sepia ink glaze. It came out looking really wonderful.
I’ve never been able to reproduce the effect.
Charcoal and Ink on Paper
21cm x 30cm
Pilgrim by Sea
€55
Pilgrim pauses to take in the view. Dog’s not much bothered.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Fire & Rust
€95
Ink doesn’t flow so well on canvas, but I liked the way this seemed to be clear about what it was, and was not, willing to do.
Ink on Canvas Board
25cm x 30cm
Distant Hills
€95
This is so simple. Made with pen, brush and sponge.
Ink on paper
24cm x 32cm
Ornamental Grass
€85
I combined an ink print from a piece of ornamental grass I ‘borrowed’ from a neighbour’s garden, with an imagined background. I like the tension between the painting and printing
Ink on paper
21cm x 30cm
Storm on the Forest
€85
Ink on wet paper. When storms hit Fanad, they really hit. This was one of those days when everything outside the window was in wild motion.
Ink on paper
24cm x 32cm