Painting: Galway Panorama
A new painting – for my first Galway city host, the caricaturist Allan Cavanagh. Yes, I’m still working on the paintings that were started on the painting tour and then carried around the country...
View ArticlePainting: Kenmare
A new painting – finally finished – a commission from the painting tour. On Tuesday, July 26th, 2011 I left Glengariff in West Cork and cycled up over the Caha pass and down into Kenmare in Kerry. That...
View ArticleNew Host Painting – Antrim
Rather than paint when I got to Grannymar’s, we spent our time touring. So upon returning to Dublin I set about painting a scene from our travels. Slemish Mountain we stopped to look at on our way...
View ArticleThe Painting Tour Story in Tweets
The tweets made while on the Painting Tour are being collated and presented now on one page. It includes tweets on the hashtag #paintingtour and other tweets that tell the story of the tour (where I...
View ArticlePainting: Ring, Cork
A painting I’ve kept from you since all but finishing it on site in west Cork, just south of Clonakilty in Ring. It was a wonderful day of painting in a stunning location, where residents, tourists,...
View ArticleNew host Painting – Donegal
When I got to Phyllis & Mike’s B&B in Donegal town, the days were running out and I was chasing time. And while I might have managed to squeeze a painting out before cycling on to Tyrone, I...
View ArticlePainting: Binevenagh & Lough Foyle: The View from Loughermore Road
New painting. When I reached County Derry on the #PaintingTour, direct from painting the weir at Sion Mills and cycling from Tyrone, I got there there just before a hurricane called Katia. Too windy to...
View ArticleAbout PaintingTour
In the summer of 2011 I embarked on a cycling painting social media trip of Ireland. The Idea: Cycle Ireland’s 32 historic counties, finding people to stay with through twitter, and doing a painting on...
View ArticlePainting: Cobh, Cork
A painting done largely on site on the Painting Tour in Cobh, and finished back in the studio in Dublin. Painting Cobh was the first very public painting I did on the tour Best viewed enlarged This...
View ArticlePainting: Loch Con Aortha
Loch Con Aortha is a painting done mostly on site on the Painting Tour when in Connemara, and finished back in the studio in Dublin. I cycled the coast road from Galway out past Spiddle and Ross A...
View ArticleAudio
A lot of audio was planned, but when 5 of the first 6 pieces I recorded evaporated into thin cyber air with me standing at the side of an Irish road trying to upload for ages, I lost heart. And other...
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