“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding“ Gian Carlo Menotti After all the excitement of my trip to Frankfurt, I was really looking forward to getting back into my studio once more and painting!! The Natural Law Exhibition is
“Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop” Ovid After my flurry of painting last week, I needed to a few days to unwind, and there’s really no better place to relax and contemplate life, than under the gently swaying fronds of a
Laburnum anagyroides on natural calf vellum © Shevaun Doherty 2015 “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe Sometimes we sail through life like a ship on a calm sea, and at other times, everything seems to come at once- a veritable maelstrom
“ Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.” ~Jason MrazMay really has been exhilarating and fun, but tiring too. The paintings have all been taken down- some heading to new homes, others heading to Claregalway Castle, and the
Barn Owl, Tyto alba, Shevaun Doherty 2013My very first framed painting was of a Barn Owl, Tyto alba which to this day still hangs on the wall in my parent’s home. I was seven at the time, but it’s interesting to realise that even at
Golden daffodils are always the first to appear each year, heralding the start of spring and the promise of warmer brighter days. William Wordsworth's beautiful poem comes to mind whenever I see them.I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all
Turk's cap gourd, Cucurbita maxima © Shevaun Doherty 2012“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do" -Rumi Art makes me want to leap out of bed every morning and rush down to the studio to paint. What started out as a keen interest in the
This week was Wicked. That is to say, that whilst I painted this week, I listened to the audiobook of Wicked, the fantastic novel by Gregory Maguire about the Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West.Wicked“Books fall open, you fall in. When you
A blog post on why I am happy that the art of vellum is being saved.Laburnum anagyroides on vellum (crop)I awoke today to hear the very good news that the British Government were not going ahead with their plans to stop using vellum for their
“Colour! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.”Paul GauguinI am addicted to colour. Yes, I am admitting it. Colour thrills me. There once was a time when a small pocket palette of twelve colours was enough to satisfy the colour junkie in me,
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