Robin on a Branch
Summer Newsletter
While many of you are baking in England and dealing with a hosepipe ban, in Donegal it’s cloudy with occasional showers. I thought I would share you my recent newletter. They have ended up being quarterly. It depends of how much news I have and how busy I have been. I always make it strong […]
If you go down to the woods today…
It took a while, but I finally worked it out. On sunny days Lidl’s car park in Dungloe is pretty full but the shop is quite empty. Just across the road from is the entrance to the River Walk. I have eyed this entrance many times as I have bundled the shopping into the back […]
“The Quiet Girl” – my painting, the book and the film
I am also feeling faintly stupid but very delighted because I only just realised that Claire Keegan’s novella “Foster”, which my painting “The Traditional House, Gola” has been used for the cover of a reprint, is the basis for the film “The Quiet Girl”. Actually, I nearly fell over when I made the connection.
Back in Donegal
One of the many great things about being back in West Donegal is that I can paint much larger paintings as my art studio is much bigger here than in Derry. So I now have two on the go!
Kinnagoe Bay (Inishowen, Dongal)
Still, On Gola (Donegal)
Fanad
On the Way to Kinnagoe Bay (Drumaweer, Greencastle)
Down to Doagh Strand (Donegal)-Emma Cownie
Lambing Season at Fanad Head
Fanad Lighthouse (Donegal)
Down to the Rusty Nail
Carrickabraghy Castle, Inishowen
Upper Dreen_Emma Cownie
Portmór Beach, Malin Head, Donegal
Down to the Rusty Nail, Inishowen
The Walls of Derry
Painting of Derry City
Derry Walls by Emma Cownie
Shipquay Gate by Emma Cownie
Over to Owey Island (Keadue) Donegal
Lighting the way to Arranmore
Old Stone Cottage in front of Errigal (Donegal
Boat at the Pier, Gola
House on Inishbofin, with distant Seven Sisters (in studio)
Stony Wall, Cnoc Fola (Donegal)
Quay Street, Dungloe (Ireland)
The Polite Houses of Maghery
The Old Shed at Marameelan, Donegal
The Green Roofed Shed at Drumlaghdrid, Donegal
Shadow on Maghery
From Magheraroarty to Muckish, Donegal
Up Bloody Foreland, Donegal
The Yellow House, Bunaninver
Not a Cloud in the Sky (Bloody Foreland, Donegal)
Winding Road, Bunaninver
The Old House at Marameelan
View From Dunmore Strand (Work in Progress)
Overlooking Magheroarty
On the Back Road to Dungloe, Donegal
Approaching Storm on Dunlewy
Up Through Gola, Ireland
Electricity Lines, Marameelan (Donegal)
With a Road Running Through It
The Incoming Tide at Great Tor, Gower
Sally’s Loch (Donegal, Ireland)
Down from Knockfola, Donegal
Down to the Pier, Gola (Donegal, Ireland)
Soft Light, Gola (Donegal, Ireland)
The Traditional House, (Gola)
Meemacladdy, Donegal, Ireland
Out of the Tenby Shadows
Side View, Brynmill (Swansea)
Back Lane, St Thomas (Swansea)(2021)
Backlane Basketball (Swansea)
Penrice, Gower
The Pyramid, Three Cliffs Bay, Gower
Tormore Island from Rosbeg, Donegal
Donegal Thatched Cottage (Cruit Island)
Arranmore Donkey, Ireland
Jimmy’s House (The Rosses, Donegal)
The White Bridge, Arranmore, Ireland