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Green Painting
Posted on | November 18, 2008 | No Comments
I painted this green painting last year - started off using some green emulsion that I was painting my front room with, then started to blend in some acyrilic paints - shades of white, greens, blues. I felt like I had the greens after painting this, but felt uplifted. I was trying to explore musical ideas again - mainly tone and timbre and thoughts I had about that at the time.
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Rome, Philosophy and St. Cyril
Posted on | September 26, 2008 | 2 Comments
I spent a week in Rome at The Grandeur of Reason - Philosophy and Theology Conference. I was there as a spectator and as partner of Cyril - who gave a paper on a very grand and reasonable topic at this conference. It was really nice that partners could be included and encouraged to attend. There was lots to do - Rome is just amazing. The eternal city as Paschal told us. You can see the historical layers of the city intertwined beneath your feet (and in front of your eyes) all round you.
It was a really great week. I met loads of really interesting people - Shelly from San Francisco, in particular. The organisers were amazing, so inclusive of all the people who were there and so committed to their area and to networking. Myself and Cyril were very happy to sit at one of the dinners with the incredibly respectful and esteemed philosopher - François Laruelle (I didn’t know this at the time) but I was very taken with his patience as the three of us tried to chat, we had a little french and he had a little english. Overall, it was really great to be in the company of such committed and talented scholars, who were also fun.
On one of our afternoons in Rome, we checked out the Sistine Chapel and found Cyril’s patron saint - St. Cyril of course.
Cyril and Saint Cyril
Cyril and the Ancient Philosophers
We also came across Raffaello “Scuola di Atene (Raphael, The School of Athens) painting “depicting Plato pointing upwards (the idealist) and Aristotle pointing downwards (the realist) talking together symbolising St. Thomas Aquinas taking the best of Aristotle and the best of Plato together with his belief in creation out of nothing to produce one of the most remarkable world picture characteristic of medieval times” Cyril’s words ….and so another photo opportunity to show the philosphical nature of this existing Cyril was taken.
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Pollerton Sunset - Carlow
Posted on | August 31, 2008 | 1 Comment
One evening, the sunset over Carlow Town from Pollerton was stunning - so yellow. I had to get the camera out.
Even land dug up waiting for development looks good in the evening sun, the pool of water from uneven ground looks like a lake, the accumulation of weeds and waste stone, like a stony shore. This piece of land is opposite the building site for the new supervalu store to be opening there soon.
[Photograph taken 29th July 2008]
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Header Image
Posted on | August 23, 2008 | 5 Comments
The header image at the top of each page, was created by digitally manipulating a photograph of incredible flowers taken at Altamount Gardens, Tullow, Carlow. The positioning of the flowers in the header area, creates some variety as different pages are loaded into the browser.
Digital Image and Original Photograph (cropped selection)
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New Website
Posted on | August 22, 2008 | No Comments
The new website was completed in August 2008. It will be an ongoing project over the next while, as I add in new features and start to regularily post to the site. The old site had been designed very quickly. It served the purpose well and was an opportunity to use photographs as a graphical touch.
For archive purposes, here are a few screengrabs from the old site…
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Leaf
Posted on | August 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
This photo was taken at my parents home in Co. Leitrim. It was quite a small leaf, it was the winter light that caught my eye as it blasted through the colours of the leaf.
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Hawthorn Berries
Posted on | August 21, 2008 | No Comments
This Photograph was taken in my backgarden, our small garden has two sides of hawthorn tress, and the trees reveal their own natural beauty through the seasons - this photo captures a winter cycle.
This photograph is blogged from my flickr photo stream.
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Pink Paintings
Posted on | August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
These pink paintings are painted on canvas with Acrylic paint. The colours of Acyrilic paint are incredibly vibrant. These paintings were painted after taking a rest from the minute concentration and detail needed to design websites!!! - letting the colours loose was what it was all about.
I have my reasons for calling these painting chants…but thats a story for another day, maybe.
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Purple Flower - Crocus
Posted on | August 20, 2008 | 1 Comment
A purple flower photgraphed at close range. Flowers and their colours are fascinating. When a flower is lit be sunlight, the colours seem to sing. This purple flower bloomed in early spring in my front garden. The photograph was taken in March 2006. The image was cropped to a square shape, to bring out the drama of the contrasting colours of orange and purple.
This photograph is blogged from my flickr photo stream.
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Watching the Grass Grow
Posted on | July 21, 2008 | No Comments
We have just recently replanted the field (I mean lawn) in our back garden…no easy feat what so ever. Of course, I only did some of the work, part of my labour was contributing to the design. Slabs were put down….slopes reshaped and loads of seed was sown.
Such was the great weather - sun and heat, that the grass started to show earlier than we had thought. We did actually lie down and watch the grass grow - it was great, highly recommended!!
Photographic Proof
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