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St Brigid's Day 2023 Art Exhibition Budapest
Honoured. In a word, I am honoured to be asked by the Irish Ambassador here in Hungary, Ambassador Gargan, to be part of a 3-woman contemporary art exhibition at The Space Gallery in Budapest, as part of the global St Brigid's Day events celebrating creative women. -
📘 Ulysses Page 001 is done!
I thought it would be the easiest of the first three pages, but it took the longest. You see Joyce mentions quite a few colours, shapes and textures on the first page of Ulysses, it was hard not to get literal. -
Irish artist Natalie Forrester in The Irish Times, speaks about her experience of the excellent childcare in Hungary
They do arts and crafts, sing, learn rhymes, plant flowers, play with oodles of toys and have a large school yard filled with swings, slides, wooden climbing frames and sandpits shaded by huge oak trees. Wolfie loves it so much we have to drag him out! (Not literally 🤣). It's free, you only need to pay approx €30 a month towards their breakfast, lunch and 2 snacks. it’s mind-boggling for me, standard for them. -
📘 Ulysses Page 003, Laz (the hub) begged me not to ever sell it!
Well, actually, there are plenty of shades of green in my interpretation of Ulysses Page 003, as I suspect Joyce knew there was more than one shade, just like the greens of the Irish Sea. -
📘 Ulysses Page 002 after a trip to the Adriatic 🌊
That may explain how I finished my first Ulysses painting when I came home from visiting the Adriatic.
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Watermelons, electricity, commissions
My Ulysses projects might not bear fruit in a season like this little watermelon, but its shelf life will be substantially longer! I hope all 933 artworks will keep giving joy for decades, maybe even centuries if they find the right homes. -
No artwork naming drama for the next 20 years!
Last Saturday night I was out in the garden watering my little watermelons 🍉, I waved at our neighbour who was up a ladder picking his cherries, when he motioned to me to meet me on the road... -
📘 My 20 year art project: 933 Ulysses artworks in the works!
My big Ulysses project will take approximately 20 years to complete, I'm excited, and terrified… sure I'd be mad if I wasn't!
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Day 5: The Reclaimed Gate
Day 5: The Gate Part 2. Using the wood from the roof of the outhouse we demolished, we made a gate. A few days earlier we demolished an outhouse which will be our new kitchen.
We kept the wood from the roof, so we could re-use it. Laz took it down it down from the roof and I took the nails out. We re-purposed the wood so not to waste anything and now it is a makeshift, temporary gate whilst we are renovating our house. Are you impressed we managed to make a design out of the odd ends of wood?!
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Day 5: The Gate Part 1
The Drama Lads! Day 5: The Gate Part 1... the drama lads! We had to widen the gate to let construction vehicles in.
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Day 4: The Wall Part 2 😂
Day 4: It's not as easy as it sounds to demolish a mud and straw wall!
This outhouse building will be our kitchen. It will be extended out by one meter and will have a sliding door leading onto a sun-drenched outdoor seated area. I can not wait to sit there sipping mojitos in the summer sun right where those bricks are. Do you think we can do it before this summer?
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We are all Mothers
As my Mum reminds me, it’s a thankless job (LOL Ma!), there is no big reward at the end, there are just moments. But you have to be present to notice them, you can’t wait for things to be calm and have that big house on the hill. Because that's all we have in the end: a montage of fleeting moments.
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