
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 […]
Wow, well done. Will go and read the article now.
Ceri
Thanks Ceri – It’s very gratifying to be a a real physical magazine, the sort you can buy in your newsagent (in Wales, anyway).
Well done Emma. Very lovely paintings, I can see why you’ve been featured 🙂
Thank you so much
Thank you!
Love the painting of Tenby. We’re going there over Easter, and Laugharne, another favourite spot. Congratulations on your feature
Thank you David, I hope you get lots of fine weather!
Superb! And, congrats !
Thank you, Rajiv
Congratulations! Such beautiful paintings. Well deserved!
Thank you!
Clicked through to the article. Great colors–you definitely achieved what you were aiming for! I love the green/red combination in the Great Tor painting. It really makes the whole painting “pop”.
Thank you, Alli.
Excellent!
Congrats, Emma.
Neil S.
Thanks, Neil
Huge congratulations to you.
Thank you, Sue
Yay! Congrats, Emma.
Thanks Gabriela
Fijn dat je in een echt tijdschrift staat
Yes, it’s great. Thank you, Marylou.