Primroses are in bloom once more

I was amused to find that when I entered 'the path of idleness' in G----e one of my blog entries from last year appeared! - welcome to technotopia.

As I say there are lots of primroses real and assumed and I am sitting at home of a Monday afternoon  - OK I have an assessment tomorrow and a clearout on Thursday but essentially the first year is over  - shock......at the speed of it all.

However, this will continue, hopefully recording much art-related activity and maybe some other stuff ( I am reliably informed by several people close to me that there is another life out there... but I'm not too sure)

After that last entry from the library I went on a tour and took quite a number of pics of various First Year studios- the array, breadth and depth of work on show is a astonishing.

 

 

 

Kathy Scanlan

 

Theses are all from the new lens -based discipline and are all after well-known paintings. Unfortunately, I do not have the names of all the students involved and I will only label those of which I am sure.

 

 

 

 

 

These two are of Barry LeMasneys work

 

 

 

All above are from Ceramics - the last being from the previous year but looked so interesting  populating the window-sill.

 

 

 

 

From Visual Communication ... and there was much more that was more obviously graphic.

 

 

 

Joanne McCarthy

 

 

These two from Sophie Gough

The Sculpture Lab  --- at work.


And finally -print -these are from the gallery outside the print workshop

 

Patrick Dundon and Luke Donnelly

Patrick Dundon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liam Lewis

 

 

Caroline Hoare, F R, and Shannon Re

 

FR and ..I will get a name!!

 

Last pictures from the studio:

 

 

 

The Stencil

 

 

Landscape - modified

 

The wall is ready for assessment

 

I think that will do for now but tomorrow after assessment I hope to go up to LCGA and see what is going on there - will report.

 

Ps must also report on brief visit to a show in the Shannon Rowing Club.

The Scholarly Path

Unusually,this post is coming from the library in LSAD .

I have just finished putting together my wall for assessment and just this minute I have realised that I have toured all the studios and taken photos everywhere..........except in our own.
That will be rectified before I go and I will do an entry when I get home.

however, there is one thing I would love to note. I was talki8ng to Joanne(4th Y) and she was telling me of his wonderful book she had acquired showing the lithographs of David Lynch(??!) -yes, that David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead,etc.) and I have since checked them out -have a look:

 

 

the man at work - look at those hands on the stone!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These last two fit so well with the sort of stuff that has been appearing in my work of late- look forward to seeing that book!

The Long and Winding path

It has been a long day today so I will just pop up a few pictures from the last two days in print without much comment:

 

These are all variations on the tooth with different layers added. 

Here are two more variations:

 

 

It was unfortunate with the second one that there was some ink on the underside of the screen which spoiled this otherwise interesting image.

 

This one is really my favourite:

 

 

More tomorrow

 

 

The path is barred

I was reading today about Robert Motherwell and I had forgotten how much I liked his paintings:

 

The Sienna Wall - 1973

 

 Elegy to the Spanish Republic no.110 - 1971

 

 

but I hadn't realised that h e was also a printmaker; having said that I cannot find any images that are definitely prints but I did find one comment from him that really interested me. At an opening in 1965 he emphasised how Stanley William Hayter's Atelier 17 had catalysed American printmaking. Now I have already referred to this man before and how much I liked his work (big book in the library):

 

 

 

.........but it is remarkable how little he seems to be mentioned now.



 

One of the print groups that has been mentioned in lectures is the collection of Spanish printmakers known as Equipo Cronica; the founders were Manolo Valdes, Joan Toledo and Rafael Solbes and here are some of their images:

 

 

I particularly like Cezanne

 

 

As a result of Kieran Cashell's essay on Urban Imaginations I returned to my passion for graphic novels in all their forms and when I was writing I researched a number of printmakers not all of whose images I was able to use. Here is one who really took my fancy:

 

 

These are by Martin Lewis and were made in the early twentieth century; what really fascinates me with these and others of the time is that one can see the direct line to Gotham Central and Sin City.  There is another interesting facet to these and that is the parallel with he same development that took place in Japan from the blockprinters to today's manga and particularly the animated films such as 'Spirited Away'  from Studio Ghibli.  The colour tones in these are so similar to late 19C blockprints.

 

Tomorrow I will put up the latest variation on the tooth in screen



 

Tranquillo

Es muy tranquillo en el collegio hoy!

Everybody was quietly working away on their contextual and some drawing was being done in the studio - ie the workshop was out of action today and I thought Derek would have a heart attack when I appeared in there until I assured him it was only to take pictures of Friday's work.........' that's all right then....maybe '   ...... I jest, because few have given me more help - thanks Derek.

Lets go back a bit; I don't think I mentioned that when I left on Friday I did my usual tour, stopping first at Raggle - Taggle where the last event was taking place - a 24 - hour Drawing marathon in aid of mental health services.

Met a number of friends, some who had been in Thurles at last 24- hour event

Kate was being very industrious:

 

But enjoying it all as she always does!

 

 

 

Anyway, I went on from there to visit an artist who has recently moved to Limerick and is now working out of Wickham St. studios which I had never known of. Will O'Kane is his name and I hope we will be seeing some of his work around Limerick soon.

 

The second last stage of my perambulation was through the Milk Market - never been there before: great fudge (work of the devil!!) - and on down through the fascinating street market which was there for the Bank holiday weekend

 

Finally I dropped in to the Hunt to see the Second Year Paint show and I was very impressed - here no less than in any of the other shows the boundaries are becoming blurred.

 

OK - some pictures of what is happening to the tooth:

 

 

colours

 

personality disorder

 

 

Fascist teeth continue their march.

 

 

On Saturday I was in Carlow again and we had lunch in the Visual and normally there would not be pictures of flowers here but the background being so monochrome these really made an impact:

 

 

They were some type of succulent.- I wouldn't be great at identifying flowers or plants in general.

 

 I mentioned before that I was working my way through  a list of artists and this morning I entered some of them in my contextual notebook but one book I came across as a very recent arrival in the library, deserves mention:

 

 

This is a book I will be returning to and to other areas of his work which are recorded in ' Books + Multiples' - It is terrific stuff.

 

And the last

 

Public Print

 

 

maybe some public words, later

 

 

 

As smooth as...............

I want to show you some images from a trip I had to make yesterday, but first let's have a look at how the sceren prints proceeded today:

 

The first print

 

First print overlaid with MRPVC drawing

 

 

Second print -first overlaid with modified drawing - red, black & translucent medium

 

Fascist Teeth - more to come!

 

This is a sketch for another possibility.

 

Yesterday it was necessary for me to be in Kilkenny for the day and I went on to Carlow for reasons which you may (?) hear more of later. . prior to commenting on these images I must tell you about an area of Portugal known as the Alentejo:

 

 

 

This would be fairly typical - I cycled through it, but in the spring it is green,and sprinkled with yellow, blue and white flowers.- genuinely very beautiful.

 

This, however, is a field outside Carlow

 

I have passed it and photographed it and drawn it on several occasions and it just fascinates me.

 

It looks good in sunshine too.

 

Messing with the image.

 

 I came across this in the course of my travels  yesterday - of course, the Visual would have to have cooler toilets, wouldn't it?

 

I love it when people make an effart with their shop fronts, too

 

Kilkenny

 

Later, I had a lot of time on my hands, and a comfortable seat, so I drew the new Kikenny courthouse - I have a little more work to do on it then it will appear.

 

 

 

Almost there:

 

Public Print