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 When working on a large painting, I always begin the bare bones in yellow. Though I generally paint in many layers, the yellow marks can st...

Kung Hei Fat Choy! I used to live near Chinatown in Toronto and always enjoyed the celebratory atmosphere in the darkness of winter, late Ja...

When I first moved to Ireland in the late 1980s, I lived with my parents in their house in the centre of Bray. My room for two years was the...

 As I mentioned in a previous post, my studio had descended into total chaos in the run-up to the holiday season, so I spent most of this mo...

I have taken part in the annual fundraiser for the Jack and Jill Children's Foundation for quite a number of years now. I first got inv...

If you saw last week's blog, here , you will know that I had to deal with the xmas chaos in my studio before I could even think about ge...

 Happy new year! Well, in order to get back to work, I first have to deal with the chaos of the past six weeks and get my studio back into w...