This one is hard to write, but I will consider it a public service. For years I have marvelled at the gullibility of victims of fraud. How they fall for simple, obvious scams. I won’t scoff at them again, as I am one of those fools too. I suppose there are seven ways to be…
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November is here and I have started to exhale at last. Back to writing my beloved blog. I hope you noticed my absence. I shall be greatly offended if you did not. It’s been intense. In August I taught for the Urban Sketching Symposium in Poznan, Poland and picked up Covid. Spent much of the…
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PLEASE NOTE: Due to a cancellation, one place has just become available in my French Pyrenees week-long course, 18th-25th October this year: https://atelier.clos-mirabel.com/painting-holidays/vignettes-of-the-pyrenees-a-sketchbook-masterclass-in-ink-and-watercolour-with-roisin-cure If you’re free and can get a flight, have a look at the schedule for the week. Just the thing before the long winter sets in. But back to last week in…
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Thursday morning, 4th September I teach a workshop in the afternoon, so I head out to the workshop location I’ve been given to suss it out and maybe make an explanatory sketch or two. When I arrive at Place de la Fusterie close to the edge of the lake I am struck by the number…
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Just back from Geneva. Whew! Between Poland and Switzerland just two weeks apart, it’s so good to be back on terra firma. I will tell you all about my trip, but as usual, if you’re hoping for some nice sketches of fairytale Swiss streets of half-timbered houses, along with upbeat descriptions of a great time,…
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I was one of the lucky people to have taken part in the annual International Urban Sketching Symposium this August, which took place in the very pretty city of Poznan, in the west of the country. I was one of 18 instructors from all over the world, representing Ireland in my own small but very…
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This summer I have been experiencing a surge in creativity. You know those ones? An itch that can only be relieved by prolific drawing and painting. And so I had the bright idea of offering an “art summer camp” in which my students and I would study anything at all, from lettering and fonts, to…
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Before I start I want to thank all of you who responded to my last piece on Barry and Cinnie. I have never had a response like it. Messages are still coming in, over a fortnight later. I have been so moved by all of you, how the story of that friendship touched you. Thank…
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Easter Sunday, 7th April 1985 It’s Easter Sunday in Enniskerry Village. It’s a beautiful spring morning, and the Easter Mass in the Catholic church has just ended. My parents and I are lingering on pews bathed in sunlight, about to take our leave. We rarely attend the church in Enniskerry – it’s usually Bray –…
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Friday 13th June This June 14th and 15th I’ve been invited to take part in a summer art festival in Mount Congreve in Co. Waterford. It’s called Art In The Gardens and it’s the second year of the event. It’s been facilitated by the good folk who steward the gardens and keep them looking so…
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