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I paint pictures. Cycled across continents. Like walking when not limping. Loved a dog. Writing a book. #art #cyclist #Dublin #efc Liam Daly he/him Website: https://liamdaly.com/ Prints: Paused (Looking for new platform)

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Oct 18

An introduction cogged from elsewhere online. Hello. I paint pictures, mostly of Ireland, but for 12 yrs now I've been a full-time unpaid carer so time to paint is rare. I've cycled across America and Europe, and among other adventures did a painting twitter cycling tour around Ireland. 1/2

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 19h

Japers that's a lot. I went through a phase of buying nyjer seeds for them, and that was very effective bringing about a dozen at a time - but I couldn't afford to keep doing it. Such beautiful birds.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Jun 12

Let me share a #painting with you. "Goldfinch" I painted for someone's birthday because, well, who doesn't like a goldfinch? Always feels like a treat to see one and some years back we planted a few teasels in the garden to encourage them - it worked. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm #SciArt

Landscape format in acrylics. A European Goldfinch in flight, viewed from the side the bird facing left with its wings extended downwards and slightly forward, fully fanned out with the mid-section of each wing feather a canary yellow, the top part close to the shoulder black, the lower part rendered black with a grey-green shine, and the tip white. The back of the body is fawn with some individual lighter and darker thin strokes. The face is red closest to the bill except for around the eye which is black. To the right of the red is a down broad stripe of white, then one of black followed by white at the back of the head. The bill is thick and a pale yellow. The tail is narrow and extends upwards almost reaching the right edge of the painting. The background is a painterly dark grey-green painted to be suggestive of movement. The painting is not signed.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

Since I started filing copyright infringement reports to get my paintings taken off Temu, a small industry of AI replacement paintings has sprung up, with dozens of brightly coloured paintings purporting to be by me. Here's a sample of what is supposedly Dublin's Poolbeg chimneys - painted by "me".

Screencap of 2 rows of 5 products, 8 of which are square cushions and one from each row is physical picture in portrait format. All of them have boldly coloured industrial chimneys, with some autumn foliage on trees or overhanging in the foreground. The blue water of a bay is visible in most, and the skies are blue or cloudy white. The number of chimneys is 3 or 4 in all but one which has 2. The chimneys are random blotchy areas of red and white, or just cream, rather than the red and white bands of the top halves and plain concrete bottom halves, of the actual poolbeg chimneys. Visible prices range from below €3 and €4 to one that is under €8.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 10

A new #painting sold last month. "Clew Bay Boat" came out of a day cycling by the County Mayo bay when I was arrested by the yellow presence of Girl Catriona somewhere near Murrisk. As I have a soft spot for Nephin I stood so the boat lined up with the mountain, then said, yes. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Bottom half of the painting is the bay with the little yellow fishing boat just right of centre. It is facing left and has a wheelhouse at the back, its top half white and bottom the yellow-orange of the hull. Tied to its rear it has two dark little shapes like boats floating behind it. Orange seaweed is floating in clumps in the foreground, thicker closer to the bottom right corner. The bay is rendered in millions of short horizontal strokes of pale blue, aqua, lilac and mid blue, causing a rippling effect - except in the foreground around the seaweed where it is a brighter flatter pale teal, and also on the far side of the bay where narrow bands of pale blues stretch horizontally the full width of the painting. The land on the far side of the water is a horizontal band of green of flat drumlins basically, some of which are peninsulas and some of which are islands in the bay. The main piece has fields of bright green sloping down to the water to the right slightly, and they are separated by parallel hedgerows of a darker green. Behind that hill is a sliver of paler green undulating hills and behind than on the left edge are a couple of purple rounded hills but further back dominating the upper third of the painting is the mountain of Nephin, a blue pyramidal stand alone mountain with a rounded peak. It is slightly off centre to the right, ultimately directly in line with the boat. The sky is a watery sunny sky of pale blue and white mixed into a smokey cloudy effect, generally more blue higher up and paler closer to the mountains. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you very much.

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks very much!

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

An old #painting for you. 31 yrs ago I did a cycle tour by myself of the newly independent Czech Republic. Březnice was a town I stayed in and when leaving I enjoyed the view looking back at the church in the square where I stayed. A few months later I painted that view. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on heavy paper. Loosely painted blotchy marks everywhere. Under a grey and white sky with red underneath breaking through, we are looking up a curving street lined with 2 and 3-story houses, all rendered in panels of oranges and yellows. The house on the right has a black skirt as do two of the houses on the left. Slate roofs on the left are rendered in red, orange and violet. Antennas are attached to most of the houses at the front from by upper story windows. The windows of all levels in the houses and the church are dark purple and blue. The street is curving to the right to the side and back of a large church similarly coloured save for two dark onion domes at the top of towers either side of the front which is facing left so we can't see it but for the tops of the towers. The street surface is a dark grey and foothpaths both sides are purple with lilac kerbs. Signed top left, LIAM '95

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 11

Another new #painting destined for a new home. "Birds, Wires #20" is the latest in my longest running series of paintings. Everywhere I walk I look at how wires slice up the landscapes behind them. Then I wait for birds to land in my pictures. But that’s not exactly a hardship. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Against a very loose painterly smokey turquoise and blue background are three very dark blue (almost black) wires running across the top half of the painting, but slightly downwards to the right. On the bottom wire are five birds spaced out albeit with a pair by the left edge and another pair close to the right edge. On the middle wire are another five with 3 spaced out on the right half and a pair just left of centre, and on the top wire are 8, again quite spaced out though the rightmost bird is very alone. The turquoise of the sky is whisked over a red underneaths which is hinting through in many places. The wires and birds have edges flecked with red. The birds are all starlings. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

A photo from back in the days when I had a studio. And sometimes of an evening the sun would shine in through the loading doorway. Which was just a big hole with no door or window. And I liked it. This was a large painting for me, one that ultimately sold to a good Cork home. #painting #ArtYear

Landscape format photo of a panoramic painting hanging on a mesh wall, with an arch-topped spotlight on over half of the painting. The painting is about 30 cm x 100 cm and in a very loose style depicts a section of Dublin's Ormond Quay showing ten adjoining narrow buildings, all bar two of various warm orange red-brick, each of them 4 or 5 stories tall and wearing a blue hat of a slated roof with a chimney separating them from their neighbour. All of the them have a dark street level shop front bar 2 which have a Georgian door with columns and a fanlight. The river wall with the railings of the boardwalk runs across the bottom, just above the dark shadow of the underside of the boardwalk. Signed top left, Liam Daly on the sky which is yellow and like the buildings glows in the sunlight of the arched beam.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 5

#painting "Wicklow Sunrise" is another of my new paintings that sold last month. Once upon a time I sat up all night in Wicklow town and watched the sun rise over the Irish Sea. You don’t really need any more of a reason than that for why I painted this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View over the silhouetted tops of several houses, with chimneys and antennas and a lamp post, across violet sea to the horizon where the last band of water is a light lilac before a sliver of a warmer pinkish lilac. The top two thirds of the painting are the sky, a dark smokey band of blue violet along the horizon with the large rising pink sun just above it in the centre. The lit up sky fans out upwardly from the sun in hues of bold pink and red, up into orange and yellow at the top, in a series of generally horizontal cloud lines. Outside the fan of light sky upwards from the sun, the sky is dark on either side in a series of horizontal dark purple clouds. Signed in lilac in the bottom right corner silhouette of a roof, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 5d

#painting "Harold's Cross" was done on location as the sun was setting and my hands getting colder. I'd sketched in town earlier that day then cycled around Dublin 6 and its impressive houses before sitting in the tiny sliver of a park I'd always wanted to go to. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #UrbanSketching

Landscape format in ink line, watercolours and other water media on mixed media paper. View of terrace of single-storey cottages from inside a park showing grass lawn in foreground and a scots pine tree at both the left and right edges, rendered in dark greens, blues and purples, and a little brown, with sparse dark green foliage. Between them is a small baby leafless brown tree and behind the trees we see through black railings to the houses. Each cottage has a Georgian door with a fanlight above and a single narrow window to its side. From left to right the doors are red, black, grey, lilac, and blue, and each of them is up a set of stairs so we can see the top of a basement below. Their slate roofs are rendered in blue with cream chimneys that have orange pots. Sky is left blank white. A white car and a black car are parked in the right half of the picture on the road in front of the houses facing right. Signed bottom right in black ink, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Tidal Flat" another new #painting which sold last month. I’m drawn to the spaces where land and water argue over sovereignty but peacefully, as in I like the space where there is no resistance and the water comes in and goes out largely as it pleases. #TidesOutTuesday #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on backing board. The bottom two thirds is land, a large olive green-brown triangle in the bottom left and the rest is yellow cut up into segments by a network of water channels. The yellow is separated from the olive corner by a midnight blue channel of water which cuts across the yellow sand in a narrow channel near the bottom right and another from the left side, to join up in the distance from where two more thin lines of blue channels head to the very thin sliver of the pale blue sea along the horizon. On either side of the sea are low long dark alizarin promontories and further back in the distance beyond the sea along the horizon is a solid dark blue mass of an undulating mountain range. The sky is mostly a smokey dark grey, albeit lighter than the mountains, with a dark sky blue in the top left corner and touch of pinkish red in the top right. Signed bottom left in magenta on the olive green-brown, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 6d

It's there - it's the first thing on the menu beside "Home" - it's "Available Original Paintings".

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sure it's not over but, after 2 months of filing copyright infringement reports, as of today I finally managed to get all of my paintings removed from Temu.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 6d

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 6d

#painting "Roundstone Bog" made a huge impression on me. Perhaps you already know I like our bogs, but the bog in between Roundstone and the Twelve Bens is a wonderland of water and bog vegetation, littered with stories and legends. I'll be painting it again. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueTue

Square format in acrylics on mdf panel. A horizon divides the painting into a top and bottom half. The bottom has painterly low alizarin crimson bog vegetation and very pale blue bodies of water in pools that cover an even greater area with some of the pools being separated from other ones by mere slivers of alizarin or ochre. Along the horizon are some strips of land of yellow ochre and maroon with hilly peaks, and along the horizon behind them jutting up is a distant rocky ridge of pale blue almost lilac mountains with warm tones seeping through like rocky slopes, and their jagged tops having their high points of two triangular peaks. Sky is a painterly pale blue with a hint of teal. Painting was scanned before I signed it.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 7d

As so much is wrong with the country I should probably mention something that's very good. The passport office's online renewal service. Last Monday at 4.30pm I submitted my application. At 7am on Thursday it was in my hands. My photo has been faded so I look barely there, like a ghost, but hey.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 26d

Another new #painting. "Connemara Cottage IV" was years in progress. I like scenes where land sweeps up to a cottage peeping out from a ledge. If it has a curtain of hanging rock behind it, all the better. Near the Renvyle Peninsula. Wish you were heading there right now? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Half way up the paining is a small white cottage with very dark roof to the right nestled into a hill on a shelf beside a small group of dark wine-coloured trees with pale orange trunks. In front of it a lime field slopes down to the bottom of the picture, as does a maroon and dark green field over the stone wall to the right, and to the left an olive green field across a dark ditch, while behind the cottage are rounded rocky hills of orange and olive green with grey rocks dotted around. They in turn are in front of a pale yellow green and grey pointed rocky small mountain which dominates the top third of the picture and has blue mountains behind it on the right side and grey and pink mountains on the left side. Sky is very pale grey blue. Along the bottom edge are the tops of some dark bold green-blue bushes with maroon shadows, and 3 small trees at the bottom of the stone wall, with pale orange trunks and branches rising into dark wine clumps. In the central sloping lime field in front of the cottage there are about a dozen white sheep spread around although half of them are up beside the cottage. The fields along the bottom are orange. Signed bottom left beside a pole by the bushes, in maroon on orange, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 7d

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 7d

Ah fabulous, thank you. Lovely seeing them together.

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At this time of need for a possible greater sense of unity, I regret to inform you, Ireland, that I'm having coddle for dinner.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 6

Another new #painting that's sold. "Slattery's, Capel Street" I painted because, well surely you can guess. Although aside from liking pints and good memories in good places with good people, I like junctions. And I've loved Capel St since I could walk. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer

Landscape format in very soft painterly acrylics on mat board. Centre of the painting shows a junction with a large corner building, three stories high, three wide window-bays on both sides as well as windows above the door on the corner itself. The sun is shining on the left side and the street to the left, while the right side and street to the right are in shadow. The street level of the featured corner building has cream canopies over the door and all of the windows except the centre one on the right side. The street level is rendered in dark wine details on a peach background. Upper stories are cream with darker detailing of tan and alizarin. The roof appear flat. Flags of Ireland, Italy, and Wales, project out from the 2nd story on the left, and of France and Leinster Rugby on the right side. Two barrels and a menu board are outside on the left. There are about a dozen buildings in a continuous terrace on the left side, 3 or 4 stories, narrow, red brick or painted faded white, with dark shop fronts. Just one building is visible down side street on the right, a red brick one with a dark green shop front. Footpath is cream in sun, and blue in shadow. Street surface is smokey blue and purple, with lightly brushed in yellow box markings in bottom left corner. Edge of building in foreground is along right edge, grey stone at street level and red brick for the upper 2 stories with cream corner stones. Sky is whisked teal. Throughout the painting flecks of other colours show through. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 8d

So we don't miss out on the transfers excitement I think I'll vote #1 for Jim Gavin and #2 for my real choice. Think of the suspense if loads of us did that, causing the nation to have to wait for the transfers to find out. Of course, not too many people should do this obviously or, well, ya know...