I am thinking maybe an old nautical scene like these....
Monday, November 26, 2012
Interior wall murals
So I have been seeing these amazing wall murals online...and I am so tempted to paint one on my bedroom wall. Here are some old ones I was looking at. I think they really add another dimension to a room. A couple of these images were found through one my favourite sites Design Sponge.
I am thinking maybe an old nautical scene like these....
I am thinking maybe an old nautical scene like these....
Monday, November 19, 2012
Vintage Victorian Christmas Cards
How beautiful are these old victorian images......I found them on this great website called vintageholidaycrafts.com.
Mel Bochner
I visited the Whitechapel Gallery when in London recently.I saw the Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes exhibition and was very inspired.
Descending from phrases such as ‘top dog’ and ‘king of the hill’ into macho mantras such as ‘rule with an iron hand’, the latest paintings of American artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940) use a thesaurus to generate word chains that are both mordantly funny and bursting with colour.
Descending from phrases such as ‘top dog’ and ‘king of the hill’ into macho mantras such as ‘rule with an iron hand’, the latest paintings of American artist Mel Bochner (b. 1940) use a thesaurus to generate word chains that are both mordantly funny and bursting with colour.
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The How and Why Library, Curated by Jennette Donnelly
So I am having a Solo Show next Friday, the 16th of November. It has snuck up on me so fast....where does the time go.
It will be on at Avenue Road Gallery, 30 Avenue Road, Portobello, Dublin 8. Opening Reception is at 6pm, and all are welcome!!
Exhibition Duration 17/11/12 - 24/11/12, 12pm to 6pm
'The How and Why Library' by Eleanor McCaughey is a series of paintings created from appropriations of images found in Childcraft books of the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Childcraft was created as an encyclopedia, of sorts, for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning amusing and engaging. Each volume addressed different subjects, including literature, mathematics and the sciences.
This series began with the move, and loss, of McCaughey’s childhood home. This finality inevitably led to cataloging, preserving belongings, and filing the associated memories. The Childcraft books, a once steadfast presence on the living room bookcase, were unearthed once more. McCaughey recalls spending hours soaking in the pages filled with images and diagrams. Returning to these books years later, the clarity and freshness of the images in her mind led McCaughey to consider the printed image, it’s ability to encapsulate the past, allow the viewer to visit it, in the present.
This series reflects McCaughey’s thoughts on the advances of modern day, focusing on morality and it’s beginnings. Allowing what she has read, learnt, seen and remembered to inform her work, McCaughey focuses on her main interests.
“Fundamentally I am interested in people, how we communicate, how we learn and adapt to our environment.”
Eleanor McCaughey is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. She graduated with a certificate in Classical Animation and a HND in Graphic Design from Ballyfermot College in 2001. In 2009 she took advanced entry into third year DIT Fine Art and received an honor degree in 2011. McCaughey has exhibited both nationally and internationally including The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Ulster Academy Belfast and the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin.
Avenue Road Gallery 30 Avenue Road , Portobello, Dublin 8 www.avenueroadgallery.com avenueroadgallery@gmail.com Tel: 01-521 8873
‘The How and Why Library’ Curated by Jennette Donnelly
It will be on at Avenue Road Gallery, 30 Avenue Road, Portobello, Dublin 8. Opening Reception is at 6pm, and all are welcome!!
Exhibition Duration 17/11/12 - 24/11/12, 12pm to 6pm
'The How and Why Library' by Eleanor McCaughey is a series of paintings created from appropriations of images found in Childcraft books of the 60's, 70's and early 80's. Childcraft was created as an encyclopedia, of sorts, for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning amusing and engaging. Each volume addressed different subjects, including literature, mathematics and the sciences.
This series began with the move, and loss, of McCaughey’s childhood home. This finality inevitably led to cataloging, preserving belongings, and filing the associated memories. The Childcraft books, a once steadfast presence on the living room bookcase, were unearthed once more. McCaughey recalls spending hours soaking in the pages filled with images and diagrams. Returning to these books years later, the clarity and freshness of the images in her mind led McCaughey to consider the printed image, it’s ability to encapsulate the past, allow the viewer to visit it, in the present.
This series reflects McCaughey’s thoughts on the advances of modern day, focusing on morality and it’s beginnings. Allowing what she has read, learnt, seen and remembered to inform her work, McCaughey focuses on her main interests.
“Fundamentally I am interested in people, how we communicate, how we learn and adapt to our environment.”
Eleanor McCaughey is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. She graduated with a certificate in Classical Animation and a HND in Graphic Design from Ballyfermot College in 2001. In 2009 she took advanced entry into third year DIT Fine Art and received an honor degree in 2011. McCaughey has exhibited both nationally and internationally including The National Portrait Gallery in London, The Royal Ulster Academy Belfast and the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin.
Avenue Road Gallery 30 Avenue Road , Portobello, Dublin 8 www.avenueroadgallery.com avenueroadgallery@gmail.com Tel: 01-521 8873
‘The How and Why Library’ Curated by Jennette Donnelly
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Dia Al-Azzawi
For 45 years, Dia Al-Azzawi has been a painter. His style may have changed, from the gritty detail of his ink drawings, through sculpture and prints to the bold abstract paintings of today, but one puzzle still dominates his work: how best to depict the Arab experience.
Monday, October 15, 2012
Winsor McCay and Google
Google search engine is epic today!!! They have recreated the adventures of Little Nemo in Slumberland for the 107th anniversary of Winsor McCay's comic strip's first publication.
Regarded as a comic-strip art masterpiece, the weekly strip first appeared on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald as Little Nemo in Slumberland and later in New York American as In the Land of Wonderful Dreams.
The interactive and animated Google doodle celebrating the nightly dreams of the little boy called Nemo begins with Nemo dreaming about falling from his bed into a hole and being rescued by Princess Camille. After a series of little adventures, through Google-land (the interactive doodle strip is titled Little Nemo in Google Land) Nemo, as in the actual comic strip, falls out of his bed. In the different panels of the Winsor McCay Little Nemo Google doodle the letters of the Google logo - G-O-O-G-L-E - appear in a chronological order.
Winsor McCay was not only a newspaper cartoonist, but also a pioneer of animated films. He started off as a poster and hoardings artist and later moved to newspaper cartooning.
Regarded as a comic-strip art masterpiece, the weekly strip first appeared on October 15, 1905 in the New York Herald as Little Nemo in Slumberland and later in New York American as In the Land of Wonderful Dreams.
The interactive and animated Google doodle celebrating the nightly dreams of the little boy called Nemo begins with Nemo dreaming about falling from his bed into a hole and being rescued by Princess Camille. After a series of little adventures, through Google-land (the interactive doodle strip is titled Little Nemo in Google Land) Nemo, as in the actual comic strip, falls out of his bed. In the different panels of the Winsor McCay Little Nemo Google doodle the letters of the Google logo - G-O-O-G-L-E - appear in a chronological order.
Winsor McCay was not only a newspaper cartoonist, but also a pioneer of animated films. He started off as a poster and hoardings artist and later moved to newspaper cartooning.
Friday, October 5, 2012
Claire Carpenter
I went to see Claire Carpenters 3rd Solo show at the Cross Gallery last night, the work was beautiful...i'm a fan, it is on till the 27th of October.
There is a shifting blend of fantasy and recollection in Claire Carpenters predominately small scale tempera on gesso paintings. Using passages of loose rhythmical brushwork Carpenter conjures up a dream-like and intimate atmosphere and then weaves it together with intricate narrative details. This complex relationship between the remembered and real, abstracted and representational creates an uneasy balance and tension within the frame, as if each brush stroke hides a dark secret.
Meticulously rendered depictions of animals, human figures, shells and landscape details seem to loosely refer to the artists own memories and ask questions about how we see, how we know and how we remember. However this hidden personal narrative, is full of contradictions and is open to interpretation as we are never given enough information to be conclusive about what she is trying to say, forcing us to surrender and open up to what is before us.
There is a shifting blend of fantasy and recollection in Claire Carpenters predominately small scale tempera on gesso paintings. Using passages of loose rhythmical brushwork Carpenter conjures up a dream-like and intimate atmosphere and then weaves it together with intricate narrative details. This complex relationship between the remembered and real, abstracted and representational creates an uneasy balance and tension within the frame, as if each brush stroke hides a dark secret.
Meticulously rendered depictions of animals, human figures, shells and landscape details seem to loosely refer to the artists own memories and ask questions about how we see, how we know and how we remember. However this hidden personal narrative, is full of contradictions and is open to interpretation as we are never given enough information to be conclusive about what she is trying to say, forcing us to surrender and open up to what is before us.
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