I love it when we get invited to sketch somewhere special. The OPW invited us to sketch inside what remains of St Mary's Abbey, just near Evans. It was closed to the public for years, and they are re-opening it on a limited basis. It looks like nothing much from the outside, but when you go in, it's amazing. The beautifully-lit space of the Chapter House and the small chapel beside it is all that remains of this huge cistercian abbey that covered a large area in Dublin, before it was dismantled by Henry VIII, and the stones removed over the centuries for various building projects.
I sketched outside first, then did my best to represent the beautiful ceiling arches, and light wall, including some of the sketchers who got absorbed in capturing this site. I finished with a little bit of wall texture.
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