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 […]
a lovely place to find peace and beauty
Thank you, Beth
That’s a beautiful large painting!
Thank you Hien!
Excellent post….leaving me with a wild view in my sights.:)
I am glad to hear that, Janet!
My husband would see this and suggest we get a nice camper like the one in your photo and go for an adventure. Well not during the Pandemic but later perhaps.
Ha! Ha! You have great big roads in North America so you can travel around in a big motorhome quite easily! They’d get stuck down an Irish or Welsh lane!
We travelled 26,000 kilometers around Australia about 30 years ago when our kids were two and four and we did it in a Toyota truck with a campervan built onto the back of it. It probably would have fit down some of those lanes!
That sounds like a great adventure!!
This scene leaves me with a lot of questions! But I love the photo.
What sort of questions, Pam??