Collectors

Big shout out to my new collectors following the Artsource art fair at the RDS, Dublin and my first solo exhibition last month. SolArt gallery do a brilliant job of introducing my work to new and existing art collectors who appreciate the Epson Digigraphie® certification of my archival quality prints.

Which reminds me, if you’ve subscribed to my mailing list (on my website) during the year, as a thank you, I’ll be picking my annual winner on the 1st December of one of my 10”x10” limited edition prints (unframed, easier to post).

So best of luck subscribers!

Awash With Colour

Last year I joined a collective of visual artists called AAEX (Arts as Exchange). Over the summer we collaborated with seventeen members of the Monaghan Poets and Songwriter’s group (MOPOSOGS) which culminated in Awash With Colour (now a touring exhibition with performances). You can find more details, along with radio interviews, on the project’s dedicated website www.awashwithcolour.ie.

I’m excited to have six pieces included in the exhibition, the one I’d like to share with you now is ‘Stories Heard’. It was created in response to a beautiful poem by Dara MacGabhann called, ‘When the Kitchen Grows Cold’.

When the Kitchen Grows Cold

by Dara MacGabhann

I will wait for you

To lift the latch

Shake off your boots in the porch

And pour yourself

A mug of tae

To warm you to your toes.

And as always

We shall dissect the day

The goings on

Stories heard and stories told

Then gather ourselves

For the leaba

When the kitchen grows cold.

Dara MacGabhann ©2020

‘Stories Heard’ will be on display along with all the other visual responses by members of AAEX from the 9th December 2021 at Íontas Arts Centre, Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan. The official launch, at 7.30pm, will feature live performances of songs, poetry and prose, with one of the performers, Enda Reilly even beaming in live from Detroit (fingers crossed!).

I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to photograph MOPOSOGS singer/songwriter, Seán Ó Roideáin recently at the Patrick Kavanagh Centre. Seán’s new album is due for release (or escape) next year (Seán’s joke, I accept no responsibility for his sense of humour).