The subject of this portrait is the face of Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972) a complicated man with a formidable reputation and known for his virulent anti-semitic outbursts. This angular and introspective looking face, lined with the contours of a life of controversy was mesmerizing to me and prompted this charcoal sketch. [credit: Irish Times] He made […]
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Artists Worlds Unite In my usual routine, I opened my mail inbox and there staring at me was an announcement that – Donna McGee – was coming to town. Slightly bewildered, I thought, but that’s me! I read on, and lo and behold there was another Donna McGee from Washington DC . She too was an
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Tired of listening to all this talk of recession and budget restraints: Here is what I have been doing: The above are a selection of some of the miniature paintings I have been working on, all inspired from regular walks through the Dublin and Wicklow mountain ranges, which are
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My Plein Air Dingle Trip On a sunny Sunday morning in May, I embarked on my journey from Dublin to Dingle, Co. Kerry. A week of painting outdoors, or otherwise known as En Plein Air. The car was laden down with field easels, oil paints, turps, linseed oil, stretched canvas of all shapes and sizes,
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