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 […]
Brilliant back cover and your photo. 🙂 Since I’m from ex-Yugoslavia, I swear we are not all the same. 😀
I am sure that you are a varied bunch of people (just like anywhere else)!!
Congratulations Emma. Wonderful news.
Thank you Janet – it’s a bonus that I’m enjoying the story too.
It’s q gorgeous use of the painting.
Thank you, Ellen. Most of the action in the book takes place in London (which people mostly know what it looks like), but I think its great to illustrate where the Honeymoon takes place and how different it is from urban Britain.
Congratulations it looks wonderful on the book cover!
Thank you, Alli. As I make my way through the book, I realise very little of it is set on Gola, so its a great compliment my painting is on the back cover!
Well done, Emma. Your painting is perfect for the cover.
Thank you, Anne.
Oh wow, congratulations.
Thank you, Peggy.
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