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Ed Fidgeon-Kavanagh
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eolai.bsky.social
Last weekend I was in Barcelona sketching and generally having an amazing time. This is Barceloneta, in the large Plaça del Poeta Boscà with its wonderfully funky market building. #urbansketching
A panorama sketchbook is opened with a colour sketch across both pages making an extra-long panorama. Paper is rag cotton with deckled edges. Sketch is done using black ink line in various fineliners, water based media of vivival color sheets and viviva pan set, inktense coloured pencils, white gel pen, posca pens, Liquitex acrylic paint markers, Faber Castell grey brush pens, and Derwent paint pens. View across a large square at a line of buildings mostly narrow and 5 or 6 stories high, though a wide orange one on the right half is just 3 stories high. Most of its windows have some form of green shutters or cloth coverings, and the large ones have balconies. At street level it has shops and many bicycles are locked in stands outside. Adjoining it on the right is a tall pink building, 3 window bays wide and darker at street level. A green building to its right is obscured by green foliage on the right edge of the sketch. The other apartment buildings to the left are mostly creams and yellows, some with long balconies across all three windows of each story, and others with isolated balconies. Those buildings gradually go behind a large building in the square dominating the left half - that of an old market with a modern metal black covering of various planes sloping and arching. In front of the market are two large yellow umbrellas over people eating at a cafe or restaurant. The leftmost building behind the market is a glass tower of narrow blue and green windows. The sky is a bright blue, matching the blue of a metal square kiosk in the centre behind which is a gap in the buildings as there is a street leading to the square there.
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting from Ireland's south coast. "Ardmore" is an exalted place for me, not because of the Round Tower, but because when I was small I stayed in a caravan and every day you'd jump over the dunes to the beach after first eating a bowl of Puffa Puffa Rice. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #TidesOutTuesday
Square format in acrylics on canvas. View from a height at, in the foreground, the ruined remains of an abbey and dominating the picture a stone 12th century Round Tower rendered mostly in warm tones with the right side being dark in shadow and the left side in sunlight having pale grey blue stones and some pink and red dotted among the earthen tones as it moves around to the dark brown and blue at the right side. Its pointed top reaches almost the top of the painting. Around its base are scattered headstones of a cemetery in various greys with some round green bushes. Just in front along the bottom edge is pale yellow-green grass, because the view is from across the road in a field which is higher than the graveyard. Behind the tower we see down onto the crescent-shaped strand stretching away to halfway up the painting where it bends right receiving the blues of the sea coming in from the right. Near the back of the beach is a broken line of pink, perhaps of seaweed at a tide line. Behind the beach at the left edge is a caravan park with dozens of mostly pale caravans in rows. Along the horizon, a third of the way down from the top edge and up past the beach are gentle hills of green patchwork fields, dotted with pale houses at the bottom closest to Ardmore and with a tree line along much of the distant top extending to the right over a headland which has violet and grey cliffs at the right edge. The sky is a very pale aqua blue. Signed top left, Liam Daly
September 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting "Portrush Harbour came after cycling from Derry around Binevenagh and on to north Antrim where after sleeping off a sickness for 24 hours in Portrush I walked to the harbour the next day. When I finished painting this scene I cycled off around the Causeway Coast. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in very loose painterly acrylics on unstretched canvas. Under a teal sky on a sunny day we look across a harbour back in at a town from a pier. The town is two rows of buildings running in a band across the painting, the far one virtually on top of the slightly nearer one. Buildings are narrow and three or four stories high in bright pastel colours of mainly orange, pink, yellow, white, cream and green, with window and door details in incomplete sketchy white lines around dark suggestive shapes. Roofs are slate rendered in dark blue, many with dormer windows. A band of a green grass bank drops from the street down to the harbour where a grey-blue harbour wall curves around the water of light blue rippling away from its centre with dark blue and, in the foreground, red strokes. About two dozen small boats are in the harbour, mostly in the centre. While white dominates they are in variations of white with dark blue, orange, light blue and red, with several suggestions of masts and ropes. Signed top left in dark blue: Liam Daly
September 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
"North Earl Street". A #painting I did as a celebration of the Dublin street, and something called the Spire. Buildings and streets are like a fairground to me, because I love squares. You may recognise Dunnes Stores, and the old Kylemore if you like your tea. #ArtYear #UrbanGaze #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View down fish-eyed retail street of, on both sides leaning in, deep orange 4-story buildings with grey details and black windows, at the red needle-like Spire in the centre rising up almost to the top of the painting, against the yellow sky with a hint of green. Street surface is orange with grey details. Grey details of upper stories on right hand side is a lighter grey than the details of upper stories on left hand side, and the orange is also lighter on the right, because that is the side receiving the sun. Corner of GPO and opposite corner of Henry St and O'Connell St, are behind Spire either side of it at the bottom centre. Some ornamental trees are to the left of the spire in the median of O'Connell Street. Signed top right: Liam Daly.
September 18, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting from last year. "Kilmore Quay Boat" came out of looking at this boat in Ireland's southeast for an age once upon a time. Its shape and texture kept bringing me back for repeat visits. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #ColorADay #RedWed
Landscape format in black ink line and water media on white watercolour paper. Side profile of a little boat on wheels, blue on the underneath parts and red all over everywhere else including the little wheelhouse. There are ropes, there are rails, there are panels, there is rust, there is a lot of aged peeling paint. There is some deliberate paint splatters underneath around the shadow. Boat is facing right resting on a rusted metal frame with two wheels close together visible on viewer side. There is no sky, with the background left white. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly
July 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
Lizard of Sherkin Island
September 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
Tis darker sooner, up the peninsula.
September 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
"Inishmore Horse". A special #painting for me. As an unpaid carer I don't earn much but wanted to give back. So with permission I used a friend's photo as reference, and donated half of the proceeds to the charity of their choice - the Down Syndrome Centre in Dublin's northside. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm
Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. In the foreground a grey horse is standing facing the viewer over the top of a dry stone wall at the bottom of a small hill. The horse's right side is in dark shadow and its left side in bright sunlight. Behind it is a rough lumpy scraggy small field rendered in ochre, green and touches of muted red, which rises up to where sitting at the top is a traditional white thatched cottage, its gable end on the left a brilliant white, and its front in soft blue shadow. The right end of the cottage is obscured by the body of the horse. The right edge of the field has a thick row of bushes and at the top of the field to the left of the cottage are two isolated green bushes. There is a slightly worn track in the grass to the left of the horse up to the cottage. The sky, which occupies the top half of the painting, is a dramatic combination of a light painterly teal with a massive bold purple smokey cloud coming in from the left edge from the top to the bottom of the sky. Only the tops of the craggy grey stones along the top of the wall are visible along the bottom of the painting, and more so towards the right directly in front of the horse. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly
September 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
Galway you're a class act.
Our own van broke down proper on the way into town.

Every mechanic, taxi driver, van hire and B&B lady was helpful, cheery and kind.

Thank you Galway, stay gold.

Onwards...
August 12, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
They go evangelical for a bit of The Pogues there in #America

#Speirgorm #ThePogues
May 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Have yourself a #painting. "Sky Road Houses", a scene I saw after cycling down the Sky Road overlooking Clifden Bay. With its glorious views I'm not sure what the best thing about it was but, as the Atlantic caressed Ireland's coastline, the evening sun enveloping me wasn't bad. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Foreground dark and rocky, sunlight picking out olive green strands and spots of pink heather. Beyond, an inlet of turquoise and teal stretches full width of picture, wider on right. Behind it a pale green headland, dotted with pink and blue, also goes fully across, rocky along water's edge, and lower so narrower on the right, with a cottage perched on top halfway along. Behind is another smaller triangle of blue inlet, and beyond that a green and purple headland with a line of about 8 cottages with purple or maroon roofs and a golden sunshine colour on many of the gables or one side. Two purple flat-ish hills are behind that, one toward either edge of the painting, with a pale blue ridge-topped mountain in the gap between, all under a painterly yellow sky. Signed bottom right in yellow on dark shadow: Liam Daly
April 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
Time to share a #painting with you. "West Cork". My knees often aren’t happy in west Cork. People have to lift me out of couches. On the other hand when you cycle up those hills, or even their mountain passes, you tend to get glorious views. So I painted this, it’s my West Cork. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear
Landscape format in acrylics. Abstracted view of a coastal scene with a turquoise sea coming in from the left to lines of dark possibly rocks and light coloured ares that could be a strand. In the foreground are larger flat hard-edged painterly shapes of yellows and greys and blues which could well be fields and the like. Along the horizon is a line of deep blue mountains, and just in front of them at the right edge is a headland of bold orange and bold yellow. The sky is a painterly pale blue. Signed bottom right Liam Daly
February 2, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting that was on the go for long time. "Roundstone Boats" is a scene south of the village and harbour where a turn down to Roundstone Bay takes you to where sleeping boats rest. I started it in 2004 and wasn't happy with it until it looked like this - in 2020. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
Landscape format in acrylics. Orange grassy foreground is the bottom half of the painting with six small boats, two with wheelhouses - a red and brown one facing left at the water's edge on the left, and a pale blue and white one on the right close to the water facing the viewer. Between them closer to viewer are a red boat with black trim and a white boat with brown trim. In front of those are two more, both black with blue trim, the one on the left is upturned. The one on the right has a thin red line below the blue trim, and immediately behind it is a small upturned white boat. On the right edge is ochre coloured sand with the outlines of rocks and stones. The left third of the orange foreground shows long tufts of grass through texture and hints of green showing through. Beyond the orange foreground is a band across the painting of a rich blue violet body of water and on the far distant side a narrow yellow and green strip with dots of white cottages scattered along. Behind them are receding steep mountains in fading shades of blue against a white and pale yellow sky under a picture-wide strip of dark blue cloud with an almost straight bottom edge. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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dermotcasey.bsky.social
Brighter days and blooming flowers bringing a real feeling of spring
February 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
First 2 days and 1000km done.
1526km to go.

A stunning wee country, full of great people & so many natural beauties.

#speirgorm
February 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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dermotcasey.bsky.social
6th of Feb even..... it'd only be the 6th of Jan if we were planning a coup and sure we're not staging a coup (at the present time)
February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
Nice to see Emmanuel Macron supporting the Turkish ice cream industry.
February 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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jamie.ideasasylum.com
Shamelessly stealing this meme, in the great tradition of AI:
January 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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jamie.ideasasylum.com
I started writing about how we need to exist with people we disagree with and that, in fact, this is basically what human societies is about.

I've now expanded it because all too often someone we hold in high regard goes much further out on the shithead scale

jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/01/22/i...
I disagree
We all need to live in a world with people we disagree with; but when our favourite artist reveals themselves to be terrible, we don’t need to beat outselves up because we enjoyed their art
jamie.ideasasylum.com
January 24, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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adrianlegg.bsky.social
Stormgeist with Teresa Mannion
#éowyn
#stormeowyn
January 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
clearpreso.bsky.social
There cannot be a library with better views than Dun Laoghaire
January 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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eolai.bsky.social
A #painting today for you called "Greenway Bicycle" that I did during one of my 24-hour video live-streaming painting things. Not my bicycle but I can heartily recommend cycling the Great Western Greenway as a way to enjoy Clew Bay, Achill and more Mayo marvellousness. #SpeirGorm #JanuArty
Landscape format in loose acrylics on matboard. A bicycle facing left rests with its front wheel against a pale tree trunk on the left. It is on the edge of a yellow field behind which is covered in short fat downward strokes of lighter yellow and some white and red. Foreground is green with yellow and teal downward strokes. Beyond is a sliver of a blue body of water and a green bottom of mountain sloping up to left with a cream coloured bank at the water's edge. On the horizon is a pale blue pyramidal mountain on the right. Sky is blue with white clouds against which the isolated green foliage of tree stretches out. Tree trunk is pale green with sporadic horizontal markings of white and blue. and outline segments of red, black, and blue. Bicycle is a road bike with a blue frame and pale mudguards.
January 13, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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eolai.bsky.social
A painting for you. "Blue View" was painted because I like walking across fields and bogs and streams and mountains. And because sometimes everything is just a bit blue. #SpeirGorm #JanuArty
Landscape format in acrylics. In only shades and tones of different blues, and textured like applied with a knife, roughly horizontal bands of landscape features - which could be fields, bogs, streams, etc. - receding to a ridge of mountains along the horizon. One narrow slightly meandering band across the foreground has a pinkish hue with blue seeping through. Sky is very pale low down against the mountains and darker at top of painting.
January 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
clearpreso.bsky.social
This is the most enthralling podcast I've listened to in years (from 2018). "Surviving Y2K"
"meet the people for whom it was anything but a joke — computer coders, conspiracy theorists, survivalists, and true believers — as they each face their own version of the apocalypse"
January 3, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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colmoregan.bsky.social
Hired builders to put in new stairs and now I can't tell if I'm going upstairs or downstairs. One of the children ended up on the UNDERSIDE of the steps, fell and cut her head. Raised it with the builders and they just shrugged. Typical Irish attitude of "Escher, it'll be grand".
December 17, 2024 at 10:19 AM