So I went to visit Nancy Gavin, Lavalla, near Ballynacally, Co Clare. I had no idea where this was but it turned out to be only 15 mins from Ennis. Nancy is in her 70's and has 6 kids, and 14 grandchildren. She has a herd of cows that she looks after and buys and sells. Last year her husband died so she has continued [...]

This is a quarry, now closed 10 years, on the Lahinch road, on way to Lahinch from Ennis. After many phone calls and the cumbersome process of obtaining new public liability insurance, I now am finally able to officially visit the space. I could have gone illicitly, and hopped in over the gate, but I wasn't about to do that as could I have used [...]

In terms of the brown paper roll I have made I filmed it as the best way I could manage to view it: https://vimeo.com/476022833 Its still not easy to indicate scale here, I suppose about 20 foot long now? I envisaged it as a possible gallery scenario like this: gallery visual for brown paper roll SO this was the realised piece I made explore how [...]

Vertical Tryptich Carolin- brown banana paper, paint and black marker This was to see what layered media- white paint let travel over and into the scrunched folds of the babana paper. then when that was dry did the black paint layer. then today when once again it was dry I added the black marker. to see how it looked. I like this, but I think [...]

https://vimeo.com/474633620 Aon, dó So I made this this morning to submit to https://thisgallery.org/ open call. I'd had the idea over last week, about shouting a poem or a speech into the camera, close enough to become slightly distorted, with the sound turned off. and having spent the week w my kids at home this morning was the first opportunity to try making it. I don't [...]

5 figured sequence of Carolin; 75cm deep paper roll I started (after 1/2 heartedly tidying up things a bit) by rolling out the action sequence paper roll of Carolin figures, and adding one more. I wanted to finish it as such. Then I started a new one, as in a large paper roll drawing, using more black paint. I started with 4 sequences featuring the [...]

I read back over all the E&B posts so far. stuff I noted: My material starts with my body. The ENERGY. energy of the body making an action in relation to the material. Learn not to see the lemon, but look at the shape of the lemon. This is an approach to help find out what I have to say about this story. I am [...]

So this morning I got into the studio- I wanted to to try some ideas around the drawings id made on Thursday when I visited Carolin at her food garden in spanish point and Friday when I went to visit Veerla at home in Ballagh, Ennistymon. On Friday evening I had drawn a more detailed version of a drawing I'd made of Veerla dismantling her [...]

So this morning, after visiting Ennis Garda station to check if it was ok, I drove to Ennistymon to visit Veerla, who is a carer/gardener. Veerla looks to be in her early 50's, and lives in a cottage, with no neighbours, as there are no houses within view of hers. Its pretty isolated. Veerla was a support worker with the brothers of charity but no [...]

Went to Spanish Point this morning to see Carolin, who had responded to my facebook message re coming to draw her. It was a lovely day, not too windy and very bright, mostly due to the openness of the surroundings on the coast. Carolin's garden is a field on the estate belonging to the Armada Hotel, which she has been developing for the last 6 [...]