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January has been a wet affair this year, perfect excuse for me to play Emilie Simons Swimming video.
Our promotion of Irish Arts Blog is going quite well. It’s been linked to by some top international blogs including Mocoloco , La Fraise, Whip Up, and has also been featured on some irish blogs including Irishphotographers.ie, [...]

Portals by Michael Ray

I’m promoting the Irish Arts Blog this week so I thought I might highlight a few posts from some of the artists. The image above comes from Michael Rays interesting post on Portals. Cliodhna Quinlan tells us about the story of the Greedy Giant and I learn a little bit of greek [...]

Since I started Karen Harper on her blogging career only a few months ago, she has really taken to it  and now has 6 blogs under her wing, including one for the Irish Crafts Association which she will launch in the new year.
The association is being set up to help arts and crafts people move [...]

Cliodhna Quinlan is another artist who has applied for my group blog offer. Her paintings are very dreamlike and unique and would fit very well in a blog setting in my opinion. She also makes some very interesting embroidered handbags.

Added to that, she has a talent for storytelling, a quality I associate with the [...]

Richard Mettler is a New York City artist who has resided in Ireland for 11 years. Richard, an abstract expressionist, studied under the expert guidance of respected New York artists Robert Beauchamp and Stephen Greene at the Art Students League. He took a side trip into surrealism for 10 years after studying with Arnold Mesches [...]

Now a series of posts on some of the painters that have applied for the group blog. First up Máiréad deBláca.
This is from her About page:
Máiréad’s abstract style uses colour and texture to marry together the emotional with the physical. Her work is of a very personal nature and she works instinctively, blending her feelings [...]

Joe Hogan has been making baskets at Loch na Fooey since 1978 and in that time has earned a reputation for making strong, durable baskets of the highest quality. The colours in these award winning baskets are those of the natural willows which are grown at Loch na Fooey.

Joe also [...]

Karen has just finished a series called 7 pieces of Irish Craft, and I thought I might add to this with a selection of the artists who have applied for the Group blog.

Michael Ray’s unique fused glass pieces would really work well on a blog in my opinion. Michael who resides in Clonakilty in Cork, [...]