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eolaí the artist
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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)
Oh have a #painting. "Ballyshannon II" is, you may have guessed, the second time I painted the south Donegal town. Ballyshannon is a place I can never think of without smiling, and that's why I painted it. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 PM
A #painting to look at. I can’t imagine a beautiful life without dark clouds. "Estuary Cloud" came from a place where you hear soft sounds, water quietly touching the shore, a lone bird calling out for a friend, and in the distance you can just make out - is it a tractor? #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Have a #painting. "Knocknarea III" came out of my annual visits to County Sligo where I get to visit the iconic mountain. This is a view from the south as you wend along the coast - which I recommend you do, ideally on a bicycle. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A #painting from another life. "Donegal Cottage II" - Where I lived when myself and my dog would talk and walk for hours. There was no hill to give this view, nor hot air balloon handy, so I did what I do when I need to look down and simply floated up there in my head. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A #painting I finished and sold last year. "Connemara Boats", a view from a small but storied bridge in south Connemara, east to the Rosmuc peninsula - a stunning part of the world. I painted it because I like the organic mish-mash punctuated by human made moments. #art #stunday #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
November 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Have a #painting. "Irish Street IV" came out of my obsession with squares and rectangles that I can indulge by standing on streets and staring. While I gave this painting a generic title it actually came out of a happy time standing and staring in County Kerry. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Another west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Montbretia" I painted because I like mountains and the spaces between them. And I really like bogs. And grasses. And wildflowers, even invasive ones. And sometimes when you're lucky they're all just there. #SpeirGhorm #art #scape #ArtYear
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A west of Ireland #painting. "Sligo Mountains" was finished and sold last year. It came out of cycle trips along the Sligo coast when I enjoyed being escorted by the Ox Mountains towards Ballysadare and Sligo town. I've also been up into them by those woods yonder. Beautiful. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A #painting. "Chapelizod", a mixed media piece I did during a long weekend a couple of years back where I traveled all over County Dublin doing sketches on location. For this neigbourhood next door I steered my bike downhill then stood sketching between vehicles and showers. #ArtYear #Speirghorm
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 PM
#painting "The Gate Theatre, Dublin" I'm never entirely sure where the Rotunda, the Ambassador and the Gate all meet, but I love this view on Cavendish Row. Because of the shapes. Arches, curves, columns, a portico, a fountain, and a big roundy bit, as well as a modern squarish add-on. #SpeirGhorm
November 15, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Feels like a day for this #painting. "Poolbeg, Kayakers, Sunlight" came out of monthly cycles past Scotsmans Bay where I would invariably stop and enjoy the views across Dublin Bay and wait for kayakers to paddle into my picture. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
There have been other non-canonical jumpers but right now discussions are in an advanced state for number VI. #SpeirGhorm
November 13, 2025 at 11:16 PM
An old #painting for you. "This is not America" came out of a love of Ordnance Survey maps and cycling in lands where roads follow contours. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #ColourADay #RedWed
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A #painting to look at. "Fitzwilliam Square" came from a time when I was just about able to do the odd commission. Still took me years (There was a lot of bricks). Dublin, sometimes it's Georgian. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
November 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Have a #painting why don't you. "Bantry Brendan" was painted because I like sitting in the west Cork town eating a sandwich as I look up at the sculpture, by Imogen and Ian Stuart, of Brendan the Navigator looking out to the Atlantic - or Bantry Bay at least. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A #painting for you of our neighbouring island. "St Ives" was started live on video during one of my 24-hour marathon things, and meant to be finished in the same live stream - but I held onto it to tweak and eventually 3 and half years later I was happy with it. #ArtYear #Scape
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Here, have a #painting "Rosmuc, An Aill Bhui" is one of several I've done from times on the south Connemara peninsula. That ridge on the far side of the water is Cnoc Mordáin; it became a good friend of mine first time I saw it. I make friends with mountains. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #TidesOutTuesday
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A #painting for youse. "Night Mist" was on the go for years, having come out of a time when I lived with a small dog in a little cottage on the northwest coast, and when mist allowed I'd spend evenings looking out across the sea to the distant island. #ColorADay" #BlueTue #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm
October 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
A #painting to look at. "Castlebellingham" was painted on a visit - much too short - to County Louth having cycled there from Navan. It was a magical time. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear
October 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A #painting for you. "West Pier, Dún Laoghaire" came out of multiple cycles and walks to the end of the lesser walked of Dún Laoghaire harbour's two main - and magnificent - piers. I like stonework. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #Scape
October 17, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Tomorrow I'll be in Liverpool, so here's a sketch I did there a couple of years back, on the day we interred my mother's ashes in her hometown - as I cycled to Waterloo and sketched this group of buildings on South Rd before returning to family and going to the cemetery. #ArtYear #UrbanSketching
October 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#painting "Clontarf Shelter" came out of a cycle one morning from Howth harbour home to Dublin west, when I stopped a few times along the promenade at Clontarf to enjoy the architecture of the wind shelters, resolving to paint one when I got home. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #WindowsOnWednesday
October 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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".
October 13, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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
October 10, 2025 at 7:35 PM