Art is an adventure that never seems to end.
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Craft Festival 2012 – hosting National Tea Cosy Competition
Suppliers, Classes, Pure craft
This festival is for all things creative, whether you are a supplier, a teacher or a designer/craft person this Festival will showcase all disciplines of creativity.
Here’s my entry for the national tea cosy competition, you can vote for your favourite fantastic creations on line at www.nationalteacosy.wordpress.com , hey you might even like mine enough to vote for. So get sharing and clicking. It’s all in a good cause. All proceeds from the sale of mine go straight to the charity

This weekend I’ll be exhibiting on the railings around St Stephens Green in Dublin city. With about 150 other artists there’ll be a huge variety of art on show, come along and enjoy the show. These are just a few of the new work I’ll have with me for the weekend.

A couple of my painting that’ll be on show at the exhibition this weekend. Get yourself down to Greystones this weekend to see the wonderful work on show by both Irish and International artists. There’s even a Gourmet Food Festival on if you needed another reason to head on down.


Been working on a new technique or style of painting for my watercolours lately and theses are some of the results, I wanted to loosen them up a bit and add some more of an atmosphere to them. Not that there was anything wrong with how I’ve painted with watercolours before but it nice to mix it up every once in a while and push what i can do.

Yesterday Ambiance Interiors took delivery of a collection of eight pen & ink drawings, for sale, of the old harbour in greystones. Complete with a one inch black frame and antique white mount to complement the detailed pen work. Owned and managed by Alan Heffernan and Darren Lennox, these drawing of greystones are exclusive to Ambiance Interiors. The store boasts an impressive collection or both new and antique furniture, original art works, a full range of leading brand carpets. Floor tiles, soft upholstery made to order and quality Irish bedding and lighting. To see more of what their store has to offer go to http://ambianceinteriors.ie . Or pay them a visit at Ambiance Interiors Unit 6,
Blacklion Retail Centre, Greystones, Co.Wicklow

Happy new year to all, well been a productive week or more now, got bored so headed back to the workshop early, was ment to take this week off, guess i just don’t do, not keeping busy. Anyway you can get a look at what i was up to at http://acleanslates.wordpress.com/ . Have a look and if you like what you see i’ll be back in Blackrock Market this weekend selling paintings, and hand carved slate mirrors and more.

This sunday i will be at The Affordable Christmas Gift Fair in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire.Doors open at 10 and stay open till 5 in the afternoon. All Welcome. FREE ADMISSION. Raffle on the day in aid of Bray Cancer Support. I will have new paintings and a slate mirrors on display. Hope to see you there.

Here is your printable ticket to The Affordable Gift Fair… FREE ADMISSION
It is free entry to the fair, this ticket is a free entry to our Draw…additional raffle tickets are 2euro in aid of The Irish Cancer Society.
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Come alone, bring a friend…have a nosey, enjoy the atmosphere and get ideas of what to buy for your family and friends….. Over 50 Stands of high quality gifts. Special offers on the day. check out our website to see what will be there.
The Royal Marine Hotel, DunLaoghaire is situated 2 minutes from the Dart line, 2 minutes to the Ferry Port, has the number 7, 7A, 45A, 46A, 46X, 75, 111 buses all passing the entrance.
Parking is free on Sundays in DunLaoghaire.
FREE ADMISSION TO THE FAIR……..BROWSERS WELCOME!