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
A direct ink impression of a piece of ornamental grass. With added sunshine.
Ink on Paper
24cm x 32cm
Guide Price €75 - €195
Pilgrim at Noon
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
Guide Price €55 - €95
Pilgrim Climbing
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
Guide Price €40 - €90
The Wierding Tree
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
Guide Price €65 - €195
Gathering Darkly
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
Guide Price €65 - €195
Pilgrim at Dusk
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
Price Guide: €55 - €95
Fire Flow
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
Price Guide: €65 - €95
Amorphous
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
Price Guide: €75 - €165
The Witching Hour
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
Price Guide: €65 - €195
Bamboo
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
Price Guide: €65 - €195
Pilgrim by Sea
Pilgrim pauses to take in the view. Dog’s not much bothered.
Ink on Paper
15cm x 21cm
Price Guide: €45 - €95
Fire & Rust
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
Price Guide: €85 - €195
Distant Hills
This is so simple. Made with pen, brush and sponge.
Ink on paper
24cm x 32cm
Price Guide: €75 - €195
Ornamental Grass
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
Price Guide: €75 - €195
Storm on the Forest
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
Price Guide: €75 - €195