Frank Rafter's Blog: Bionn an grian ag taithneamh go h-aird sa speir

Right; for anyone not fluid (fluent?) in the native tongue -' the sun is shining high in the sky' .... and its getting nice and warm. There is a certain feeling of smugness because the grass is cut -amazing what'll make one happy!!

Art is part of every day - Thanks to Barry for organising a plein-air at the Golden Vale site in Limerick yesterday (you might remember this from an earlier post regarding EVA ) . Barry, Moya and Jim all did some painting but your correspondent did two fairly large drawings:

Cleeves Factory - June 2014 - Graphite on paper - A2

Golden Vale Factory - June 2014 - Charcoal and Graphite on paper - A3

When one sets out to draw there is never any real certainty as to what will appear and it always takes a lot longer that one expects.

I have been doing a lot more drawing recently:

This is a sculpture that is at present outside the Hunt

This tree was beside me as I was having coffee in the Hunt

A round courgette on the kitchen table

Through conservatory window

Patrick Stewart aka Jean-Luc Picard

Study for a potential intaglio - etch - print

I mentioned the Hunt above and while I was there I visited the current exhibition The Artist's Eye - a selection from AIB Collection curated by Donald Teskey. Its not a huge show but well worth visiting if only to see Alice Maher's piece:

[ps I hasten to say that these iphotos do very little justice to the works and indeed there is a very nice book with the show in which the reproductions are very good.]