Painting of Arranmore
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Recent work (of Derry and Donegal)
We are about to decamp to Donegal for the summer/early autumn. I have mixed feeling about returning to oil paints. It’s been a quite a steep learning curve getting comfortable with acrylic paint but I feel like I finally got there. I am not sure what it will be like to paint in oils again, oh the the joy of easy blending! I will continue my practice of laying down an underpainting in grey-scale paint, regardless. Here are some of my recent acrylic paintings, mostly of Inishowen Penisula (Donegal)
Adventures in Acrylic Paint
You probably think that artists are good at creating paintings/images in all mediums; oil, watercolours acrylic paints. Many probably are, but I am not. I need to work at it. It’s a bit like being an athlete. You might be great at football but it doesn’t automatically mean you are a great sprinter, tennis player […]
The Walled City
What’s in a name? It’s complicated The name of the city I am living in right now is contentious. It’s official name is Londonderry but no one here seems to call it that, not even the council. Most people in the city itself, Protestants as well as Catholics, call it Derry. This suggests it is more […]
Illuminate Festival, Derry
The ‘Illuminate’ festival is running over two weekends in Derry, 17th – 20th and 24th – 27th February, from 6pm – 9pm. We visited it on Thursday night. It was very cold (double socks and thermals weather) but mostly dry. This was important was all the sites we visited were out of doors. It was a thoroughly enjoyable experience and a brilliant introduction to Derry.
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