Some of the New Work

I have some other new work on the go along with the paintings, some of it's scattered over the blog in other posts but I have it here together in one place. I'll be posting the paintings up here shortly. Until then though you can see some of the new painting here on Facebook and the drawings and digital work below. These are also on my Facebook page.

Digital Illustrations

    Double Click, 2013

    Scroll Down, 2013

    Point, 2013

Drawings

                                     Bubble, 2013

                                            Last Stand, 2013

                                        Overflow, 2013

                                         Sprawl, 2013

Facebook Page

I just set up a Facebook page for my work. I'll be updating it with pictures of the work in the exhibition, Excursion, gradually over the next few weeks along with anything new that I do.

If you want you can give the page a like over here.

One of the digital pieces I have over on Facebook -

'Double Click'

New Solo Exhibition - Excursion

Thursday night, the 5th of September, my new new solo exhibition opened at the Arthouse Gallery in Stradbally, Co. Laois. It's a show of work that began last summer in Iceland and has continued to grow over the course of the past year.

The opening went really well, There was a really good crowd at the launch and I heard that some people had been in the day before the opening night and were spreading good things by word of mouth about the exhibition. The exhibition was officially launched by friend, artist and former tutor Jock Nichol. There was plenty of positive feedback from Jock, Assistant Laois Arts Officer Bridie Keenan and the viewers at the Arthouse. I'll be posting images of the paintings later on when the exhibition closes on October 4th.

Between now and then though I'm getting ready for a presentation I'm giving in the gallery on Culture Night (September 20th).

Below is a copy of the invitation to the exhibition and at the bottom is the press released featured in the Leinster Express.

Work in Bray

I got a piece into the first annual Signal Arts Centre Open Exhibition in Bray, Co. Wicklow. It opens tonight. I'm not sure how long it runs for, I'll post that up when I find out. I was delighted though.

Here's the work that got into the exhibition -

               Overflow,

               Ink and Acrylic on Paper,

               37cm x 34cm,

               2013.

This was a piece I did a while back, I've done some works similar to it since. I wanted to play around with pointillism because I'd never tried it before. A few of the people that have seen it thought it was carborundum print, but it's just a 0.05 mm fineliner and thinned down acrylic paint.   

Solo Exhibition Update

I'm closing in on the target number of paintings, I made a bit of a mess of one last night and despite trying to fight with it admitted defeat but I have it restarted today and I'm feeling happier about it.

The exhibition itself - It's still down for the 5th of September, it's titled Excursion, I'm looking at between 10 and 12 paintings for the show, I'm giving a talk on the 20th of September and the show runs until the 4th of October.

I was originally meant to be giving the talk on the 7th of September, but we decided to have it instead on the 20th which is Culture Night, so I'm happy with that. Culture Night is a really busy date in Ireland for the Arts and because of that the Arthouse are expecting a good crowd around the gallery because there are several events taking place that night.

Here's the link to the Arthouse - Solo Exhibition at The Arthouse

Some of the Older Work

I probably should have posted this up back in January but I suppose better late than never. I need to renew my website account so I haven't uploaded much to it lately so I'm going to put up some of the older stuff here and I'll upload the newer work in the Autumn this year once the solo exhibition has finished.

All the work below is from 2011/2012. Work stopped on these in May 2012 because I spent a fair bit of time on workshops and then at the end of May went to Iceland for 3 months where I started the new paintings. When I was going I didn't realize I was going to take a break from what is now the older work which is another reason for the delay uploading them.

Side Spiral,

2011

Cube Stack,

2011

Short Spiral,

2011

Resounds,

2011

Reflection 2,

2011

Towers,

2011

Paper Coils,

2011

Never a Frown,

2011

Contact,

2012

Duple,

2012

Saturn,

2012

Untitled,

2012

Untitled,

2012

Untitled,

2012

Untitled,

2012

I have several other paintings from 2012 that aren't uploaded here. The reasons for that are because they either weren't finished or I wasn't happy with the documentation, if I re-shoot them I'll upload the images then. 

Work in New York

I had 3 works selected for The Story of the Creative exhibition opening tomorrow night in New York at the See// Exhibition Space. I received the email last month inviting me to take part. The piece below, Saturn, was the image used on my invitation.

3 others would be selected for show. So needless to say I was delighted with the invite and accepted straight away. I can't make it to the opening in person but it's great to be taking part in this group show in New York.

The exhibition is taking place at:

See// Exhibition Space 

26 - 19 Jackson Ave.

Long Island City, Queens

New York, NY 11101

Below are the 3 paintings that were selected for the show -