It was getting cold. A jumble of images that presented themselves to me as I was sketching Grogan's pub in Dublin. I have merged foreground and background. I am conscious that makes it hard for a viewer to understand what they're looking at, but it's how I see the world, and that's what I want to show. Welcome to my world.
Continuing with my intuitive exploration of the Beara landscape near Allihies. It's a few months since I was there, but the pull is still strong. I worked on these with ArtGraf tailor shapes, and lots of water, and a tiny bit of watercolour. I need to do many more of these, so I don't get too attached, then I can crop and collage them. I have ordered lots of cartridge paper so I don't feel precious about wasting paper.
I am inspired by Lewis Noble's process of exploring the landscape through drawing. For both of these, I worked from the same photo, just zooming on different elements. Sometimes it's the full mountain that inspires me, sometimes just the curve of cracks in a rock.
