I am on holiday, after an extremely busy year. Indulge me while I recap. I wrote and illustrated a book, taught ten workshops at home and abroad, ran classes for kids…and did all the usual stuff a mother has to do to keep the show on the road. Last week I decided to have a…
The king and queen of Sweden visited Galway’s Marine Institute to see work from the Bluefish project. I was invited to lunch…
Sixty years seems like an eternity to a child, but in reality it’s practically yesterday. The Battle of Britain Museum is a place to stir emotions like none I’ve ever experienced.
PREMIUM. Fungie the Dolphin, escaping crabs and doomed oysters, moody surfers – I sketched them all during my trip around the Irish coast. Hear how it went and how I overcame some of the challenges!
On board the Oscar Wilde with my colleague and buddy Sharon… Sharon and I are taking part in a project called Bluefish. It’s a joint Irish-Welsh project looking at blue growth and the possible effects of climate change on the marine sector along the coast of the Irish and Celtic Sea. I was tasked with…
It was a privilege to teach at the 9th International Urban Sketching Symposium took place in Porto, Portugal, from 19th-21st July 2018, and I fell in love with the city…
PREMIUM. SeaFest is the annual celebration of Galway’s intimate relationship with the Atlantic Ocean and a great family day out. Of course it wouldn’t be complete without an official urban sketcher to record it…
PREMIUM. To be sent to a country I’d always wanted to visit – to sketch for the Tourist Board…was a dream come true. Portugal was way beyond everything I’d imagined.
PREMIUM. I recently had a great week of sketching in a lovely little Irish town in West Cork, but in mid-February. Schull turned out to be a sleepy little town consisting of one steep, twisting street with shops and pubs on it…
PREMIUM. I was asked to sketch at Seafest 2017, and it was a real pleasure: sunshine, sea, spray and sketching all combined to make a day of great colour and atmosphere.