[ Update: Sale is now OVER. I am currently putting available paintings back at ordinary prices and applying shipping charges again.]
I’m ending the big Spring […]

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The Spring sale of my paintings isn’t finished - Sunday is the final day - but things are relatively quiet now after the thousands who […]

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[UPDATE: Sale ENDED May 11 2008. Normal Price now applies, free shipping is discontinued ]
The anti-climax is here. I’ve just put 76 paintings on sale. […]

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Perhaps I told you that I painted a cow when the Cow Parade came to Kansas City in 2001? The cow I painted I […]

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Currently surrounded by a couple of hundred paintings. I am trying to organise a large bunch of them - at least 50, maybe 75, to […]

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As my bus reached the Four Courts the bus lane was no use anymore. I would be late.
A protest march was quietly making its way […]

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In this day and age of print-on-demand, where we can self-publish high-quality books - physical quality that is, not necessarily content - there’s no real […]

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On Saturday, March 8, 2008 there is a Celtic Crafts Demo Day by the Society for Creative Anachronism down at the IMCC all day from […]

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There is a presentation on the most famous of Irish illuminated manuscripts, the Book of Kells, by Joanna Carraway of Rockhurst University, this Sunday, March […]

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As I’m hoping to get motoring on painting again shortly, I thought I’d share an Irish painting in progress with you.
One of the most frequent […]

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Currently 3 images of mine are being worked on for use as Music CD covers. However one of them has me feeling rather guilty.
The other […]

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Even though I paint them I don’t know that my opinion of them means anything, over and above anybody else’s opinion of them. But seeing […]

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Forgot to get a Valentine card? Deliberately?
Don’t want to give money to card companies? Think the celebration of Valentine’s day is moronic? And yet […]

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You know the way you watch cookery programmes and read recipes when you’re on a diet? Well when I don’t paint for a considerable period […]

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The sun has come up in this cold corner of Europe so it is time to go out and paint.
Almost 9 years ago I moved […]

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Back when I had money and food I painted an Avocado.
A fruit, you say, spotting my first mistake. You’re wrong; my first mistake was […]

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If you take away an accompanying narrative, are you still looking at art? Well, it’s not a pipe.
Some people walk their name in maps. That […]

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Why would you want to burn a goat? I do. I want to burn the Gävle Goat.
Why?
The burning of a great log during the […]

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Being right-handed, when I paint pictures I paint with my right hand.
But right now I’m painting a house. In the English east Midlands.
And to […]

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Time was when I lived in the US that I would say one of the things I missed most about Ireland, was England - […]

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