
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 […]
Well done. I am really pleased for you to have this opportunity. The paintings are beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Congratulations on the invite by the magazine!!
Thank you x
Congratulations! I love your paintings of Swansea – you make it look so bright and cheerful!
Thank you, Annabelle (very rainy today as it happens!)
they are beautiful and congrats, emma –
Thank you!
Congrats! Your paintings are wonderful.
Thank you, Gabriela
So many wonderful paintings, the magazine made an excellent call when they selected you. Congratulations!
Thanks you Sarah!
Lovely work, Emma! I really enjoyed seeing these – they’re going to look beautiful in the magazine. Congrats! 🙂
Thanks Hilda
Bravo! The thing I love about your work is it is so full of color and life. It will translate well to the magazine.
Thank you, Anne
Just beautiful congrats too.
Thank you, Sue
Very special compositions
Congratulations! I love them all.
Thank you so much!
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wonderful coastline and superb depictions. Nostalgic somehow like the old Shell posters by celebrated painters like Piper, Nash and Sutherland.
Thank you, David
Indeed.
Gorgeous.
Thank you, Ellen.
I should say, more generally, that I really like your work.
Thank you so much, Ellen. I enjoy your posts enormously too.
Simply amazing. Anand Bose from Kerala
Hello – I visited Kerala over 20 years a go. It’s like paradise. So lush and the people are lovely too.
Emma , those paintings are really wonderful and your blog is amazing too.
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