Monday 15 October 2012

Gordon Robin Brown

I think I may have posted Gordons work before, but felt the need to again.. I really love it.
I first saw his work at the DOJ degree show...

Monday 11 June 2012

Stolen child - W B Yeats

http://youtu.be/oh0M5SgsENo

Here below are the last two verses of the poem. I've just realised that the poem features Glencar, which is a waterfall in county Leitrim, where my dad is from.

Where the wandering water gushes
From the hills above Glen-Car,
In pools among the rushes
That scarce could bathe a star,
We seek for slumbering trout
And whispering in their ears
Give them unquiet dreams;
Leaning softly out
From ferns that drop their tears
Over the young streams.
Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
Away with us he's going,
The solemn-eyed -
He'll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest
For he comes the human child
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
From a world more full of weeping than he can understand


Thursday 17 May 2012

Captain Beefheart

While working, I usually listen to music and that got me thinking of musicians who have become Artists of another kind or simply work within one or more disciplines. I'm interested in many other art forms myself, and could happily swap artform. Though I really need to stick to one thing or I'll never get anything done.

Above is a painting by Captain Beefheart, I wish the quality was better, but thats how I found it.

Catholic girls... do you know how they go?



Hear this below... One of my favorites from Frank Zappas 'Joes Garage'
http://youtu.be/co55JSKvS_Q


Thursday 26 January 2012

Marc Dion



While I´m knocking about in Cusco and doing little creative stuff, I find myself needing to absorb myself in the works of others. I have a great interest in displaying and cataloging similar objects and just find his work delightful. While I was living in Dundee, he was hanging about at some point working on an exhibition and was using the same print studio I was, in the DCA. I never met him, but I saw all his prints drying on the racks and just wish I´d robbed a few now (kidding of course)