On a cold grey day last Autumn Monica Hayes from KCLR (Kilkenny Carlow Local Radio) came to visit me in my studio to interview me for her great series – A Portrait of …….. We spent almost three hours chatting about all sorts of of […]
All posts tagged: Kilkenny limestone
Hollywoodrath – Installed
My heart always sinks when I hear that distinctive clink and clack of an excavator bucket and the whurrr and trundle of its tracks, as it usually means that a hedgerow is being removed and/or some beautiful bit of wildness and habitat is being scrubbed […]
Maple
Keeping on my leaf/tree theme, I carved this for Sculpture in Context 2019.
Hollywoodrath Commission – Drawings on Stone
The last time I wrote a post was over a year ago!! I was full of good intentions to do regular updates on the progress on the commission. I found it difficult to do being away from home while working on the commission in Stradbally. […]
Hollywooodrath – a commission
I was invited in the spring to submit for a sculpture commission for a housing development in north Co. Dublin. To my delight I was awarded with the commission in early summer and it has kept me very busy all summer and will do well […]
ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture
In my last post, I reported that I was delighted that the two sculptures I submitted to the RHA Annual Open Exibition 2018, were both accepted. “VOID I” and “Paired Impression”. The week before the opening I was rung up by the RHA, my […]
Sculpture in Context 2016
Sculpture in Context opens on Wednesday 7th September 2016 at 6.30pm at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. The show runs until the 21st of October 2016. All Welcome. My “Sycamore Wing” is on show in the gallery there.
Now Open: FORM designmade in Carlow at the Pembroke Hotel for the 2016 Kilkenny Arts Festival
Busy, busy! The 2016 KilkennyArts Festival is here and the FORM pop – up is OPEN! Here are some pictures (thanks Nicola) from our venue at Pembroke Hotel on Patrick Street, Kilkenny. I would love to see you there! FORM Pop – Up Shop, […]
Carlow Garden Sculpture Commission – research
Philippa Bayliss the renowned painter and gardener based in County Carlow asked me to create a Sculpture for her Garden last summer. I headed over to her place, not to far from here, on a lovely summer’s day to visit her beautiful garden and try and think of […]
Cucumber: Kilkenny limestone
Last summer I grew some small spikey/bobbly cucumbers (from Seed Savers) in the polytunnel. I thought they were an interesting shape especially with the bobbles. I started the sculpture in the end of August last year and only finished it a few weeks ago. Never […]
Warted Kettle Gourd (Cucurbita pepo)
I was commissioned before Christmas to do a small gourd about life-size (100mm). I think it was a Warted Kettle Gourd from the identification chart. It was a lovely shape, but I wasn’t that keen due to the small size (fiddly) and due to the […]
2015 Carlow Arts Festival: “topic” hazelnut
The hazelnuts were amazing this year, a mast year. It inspired me! I made three stone (Kilkenny Limestone) hazel nuts this autumn. Two have been given away for 50th birthday presents. Kilkenny Limestone: hand-polished, roughly 20 cm in length. 2016: two more were made, one […]
