I got to walk on frozen snow earlier in the week. I had to travel all the way to the Cotswolds to find it. There had been a foot of snow the week before but it had almost all gone. Almost. There were remnants left in the cold corners of the fields where the low winter sun’s rays did not directly warm them. It even rained a few times when I was there but these remnants did not melt. It was too cold. So, I got to experience a small thrill as my boots crunched on the ice. It was fleeting but fun.
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I was delighted to see my two Donegal paintings “Up Bloody Foreland, Donegal” and “The through Road, Donegal” on the walls of the London Irish Centre (Camden, London). These two oil paintings form part of a “real room” of an Irish family in 1950s Britain installation. The exhibition, which is on during August through to […]
Donegal is a big mountaneous county in a big country. Imagine my shock when I discover that it’s only the 4th largest in Ireland (after Cork, Galway and Mayo) at 4,860 km2 (1,880 sq miles). It seems even bigger as there is no railway or motorways here, so it takes a long time to travel around all the mountains. One of joys of the county is that it’s relatively empty (the 5th least populated in Ireland) with 32.6 people per km2.
There’s a good reason why landscape painters use the “landscape” orientation for their canvases – i.e. the longest side is horizontal – and that’s because you can fit more landscape in that way. I have recently discovered another good reason – social media and wordpress thumbnails don’t like tall narrow paintings and crop them.
Everybody loves the Georgian Houses It seems like certain styles never go out of fashion. Last year Georgian-style houses topped a poll of the most popular home styles. I suspect that people like scale of the house as well as the the pillars and generous sized windows. Nothing says lord of the manor like a […]
I always liked the kind of “squeaky” sound footsteps in fresh snow make. It kind of progresses from a crunch as your foot hits then a squeak as it sinks in. Who knew snow could be so expressive?
Oh there’s nothing nicer than that “squeak” of fresh snow under your foot. This was a poor substitute but it’s the closest I have been to snow in about 7 years!
Nice subject, Emma and lovely work! – it’s not often you see such lovely remnants of snow! As an English girl, living in Pennsylvania, US, I always make sure to appreciate and enjoy snow – sometimes we only get a few inches, other times we get tons and tons in a winter, I love it all! It makes the world look, and sound, so different, mysterious and beautiful, it sparkles, and yes, crunches. I know some people find it makes life hard for them, but, I would take it over the heat of summer – Any day! (PA Summer = humidity and 90 – 100 f!!!) 🙂 I hope you get more of the white stuff to enjoy! 🙂
Wow – that’s a very different lot of weather to the usual rubbish we get in the UK.
lol! Ah yes, 19 different types of wind, clouds and sunshine, before lunch…any day of the year….but rain can be really lovely – because it makes everything so shiny and reflective, and it makes a nice sound 🙂
Yes, we get all sorts of rain here. Gentle rain, rain that comes up at you from under the umbrella, cold rain, pouring rain. Yes, I do like the shiny reflection that rain can make too!
Thank you Hilda
Very beautiful
Thank you!