A watercolour illustration which i did earlier this year. The inital drawing is done with my trusted Pentel Pocketbrush, possibly the greatest pen ever invented if you love the fluid nature of ink! ....oohh but dont bring it with you on a plane, they have been known to leak with the cabin pressure!
The Kildare Artist Notebook Project is ran by the Kildare Arts Office and it invites artists at all stages of their development to participate in the project. Artists are invited to fill a notebook in a creative way. Each notebook is then donated to Kildare County Council Arts Service to become part of a permanent touring collection. I am extremely excited to be part of this project, i am one of those artists who cares their notebook with them at all times, and i have always been that way since my early days in art college! So a chance to glimpse at other artists' notebook's always interests me because sometimes i feel that you learn more about an artist from their development work or rough idea's than their finished pieces.
Since i've had to hand over my notebook to the Arts Office, i decided i would document my notebook, I then made the photographs into a stop motion flipbook animation.
The offical opening of the Artist Notebook Project took place on Saturday 18th October by Dr Maebh O' Regan, in the ever impressive "Riverbank Arts Centre" in Newbridge. The exhibition is also part of the Kildare Literary Festival 2014. Check out the Kildare Artist Notebook Project website for more information on the Artists and where the touring exhibition will be next http://www.kildarenotebookproject.com/
"After Winter Comes Spring" is a chalk board animation which i created a number of years ago. It reflects the economic crisis the country was experiencing of the past number of years. As budget day 2015 is upon us there is rumours that some taxes may be reversed, could we be getting over the hard times? Is spring on the horizon?
