eolaí the artist

Square format in acrylics on mdf panel. A horizon divides the painting into a top and bottom half. The bottom has painterly low alizarin crimson bog vegetation and very pale blue bodies of water in pools that cover an even greater area with some of the pools being separated from other ones by mere slivers of alizarin or ochre. Along the horizon are some strips of land of yellow ochre and maroon with hilly peaks, and along the horizon behind them jutting up is a distant rocky ridge of pale blue almost lilac mountains with warm tones seeping through like rocky slopes, and their jagged tops having their high points of two triangular peaks. Sky is a painterly pale blue with a hint of teal. Painting was scanned before I signed it.

#painting "Roundstone Bog" made a huge impression on me. Perhaps you already know I like our bogs, but the bog in between Roundstone and the Twelve Bens is a wonderland of water and bog vegetation, littered with stories and legends. I'll be painting it again. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueTue

As so much is wrong with the country I should probably mention something that's very good. The passport office's online renewal service. Last Monday at 4.30pm I submitted my application. At 7am on Thursday it was in my hands. My photo has been faded so I look barely there, like a ghost, but hey.

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Half way up the paining is a small white cottage with very dark roof to the right nestled into a hill on a shelf beside a small group of dark wine-coloured trees with pale orange trunks. In front of it a lime field slopes down to the bottom of the picture, as does a maroon and dark green field over the stone wall to the right, and to the left an olive green field across a dark ditch, while behind the cottage are rounded rocky hills of orange and olive green with grey rocks dotted around. They in turn are in front of a pale yellow green and grey pointed rocky small mountain which dominates the top third of the picture and has blue mountains behind it on the right side and grey and pink mountains on the left side. Sky is very pale grey blue. Along the bottom edge are the tops of some dark bold green-blue bushes with maroon shadows, and 3 small trees at the bottom of the stone wall, with pale orange trunks and branches rising into dark wine clumps. In the central sloping lime field in front of the cottage there are about a dozen white sheep spread around although half of them are up beside the cottage. The fields along the bottom are orange. Signed bottom left beside a pole by the bushes, in maroon on orange, Liam Daly

Another new #painting. "Connemara Cottage IV" was years in progress. I like scenes where land sweeps up to a cottage peeping out from a ledge. If it has a curtain of hanging rock behind it, all the better. Near the Renvyle Peninsula. Wish you were heading there right now? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Ah fabulous, thank you. Lovely seeing them together.

At this time of need for a possible greater sense of unity, I regret to inform you, Ireland, that I'm having coddle for dinner.

Landscape format in very soft painterly acrylics on mat board. Centre of the painting shows a junction with a large corner building, three stories high, three wide window-bays on both sides as well as windows above the door on the corner itself. The sun is shining on the left side and the street to the left, while the right side and street to the right are in shadow. The street level of the featured corner building has cream canopies over the door and all of the windows except the centre one on the right side. The street level is rendered in dark wine details on a peach background. Upper stories are cream with darker detailing of tan and alizarin. The roof appear flat. Flags of Ireland, Italy, and Wales, project out from the 2nd story on the left, and of France and Leinster Rugby on the right side. Two barrels and a menu board are outside on the left. There are about a dozen buildings in a continuous terrace on the left side, 3 or 4 stories, narrow, red brick or painted faded white, with dark shop fronts. Just one building is visible down side street on the right, a red brick one with a dark green shop front. Footpath is cream in sun, and blue in shadow. Street surface is smokey blue and purple, with lightly brushed in yellow box markings in bottom left corner. Edge of building in foreground is along right edge, grey stone at street level and red brick for the upper 2 stories with cream corner stones. Sky is whisked teal. Throughout the painting flecks of other colours show through. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

Another new #painting that's sold. "Slattery's, Capel Street" I painted because, well surely you can guess. Although aside from liking pints and good memories in good places with good people, I like junctions. And I've loved Capel St since I could walk. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer

So we don't miss out on the transfers excitement I think I'll vote #1 for Jim Gavin and #2 for my real choice. Think of the suspense if loads of us did that, causing the nation to have to wait for the transfers to find out. Of course, not too many people should do this obviously or, well, ya know...

I wonder if he'll get more votes than the turkey...?
#NothingToDoWithTheUSA

Probably shouldn't have looked. But given I've managed to get taken down 95% of my paintings that are being sold unauthorized on Temu, and am closing in on the rest (that I can find anyway), I had a peep at AliExpress. And there I found 60 of my paintings on stuff. Think I'll make a pot of tea.

Have done at least ten paintings of the Burren, most of them you can see posted to this account. And also paintings of villages on the edge of the Burren like Doolin, Lahinch and Kinvara. Perhaps this search might show some of them: bsky.app/search?q=fro...

Thanks very much.

I have been to the Cliffs of Moher many times, and painted them several times. Quite the place alright.

Thanks very much Markham

Thank you very much. It's such a wonderful and varied county.

Thank you very much. It's so great up there. Had been so long on my list of places to go as I kept missing chances, so was delighted when I finally did. And will again.

Brilliant! Thank you.

Thanks. It's hard to see on a screen the amount of colours that went into making all those warm bands of bog.
Didn't even open the curtains today until very late such was the noise of it all through the night. But we had food, tea, and no need to venture outside the door so all good - thank you.

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View down on a dark turquoise ocean and across to, jutting out from the right edge to almost as far as the left edge, a long and very high sheer cliff with tons of horizontal strata of pale earthen colours including purples and blues in the horizontal shadows and at several points downward creases. At the cliff base there are isolated spots of white water, before a loose pattern of alternating large diagonal bands of turquoise and dark blue water stretching to the bottom edge of the painting. The cliffs have a flat top with a broad expanse of bright green fields, a mixture of almost lime and olive. The horizon is very close to the top of the painting and just below it in the distance is a green headland coming out from the right to halfway across the painting where it rises slightly and the pale rocky strata of the sea stack of Dún Briste can just about be made out, if you know what you're looking for. The sky is a very pale teal. The bottom right corner has loosely brushed long grass which is in the foreground of the viewer. Signed bottom left in red, Liam Daly

"Céide Cliffs" A new #painting which sold earlier this month. Had worked on this north County Mayo view you get across from the Céide Fields ever since a visit there a few years ago. Exhilarating looking down on something so large, but the wind does mess with your hair. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm #scape

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. The horizon is very high, about one sixth from the top of the painting and everything below it is the bog. The bog is rendered in horizontal bands of varying widths and hues of purples and oranges, giving a warm rusty effect overall punctuated by dark bands. Loosely the bog gets lighter the further away it is, but the immediate foreground is lighter than the next band, and between them is a bright horizontal puddle, in shades of very pale blues and yellows as it reflect the sky. About two-thirds of the way up is a very narrow horizontal strip running the full width of the painting, of pale grass growing. Beyond the bog along the horizon sits a gently undulating landscape of a distant patchwork of very pale green fields with pale blue-green hedgerows, trees and bushes. The sky is a very pale smokey blues and teal. Signed in blue in the bottom right corner, Liam Daly

A newer #painting for you. "Roscommon Bog", finished only a few weeks ago, came out of a lifetime of enjoying the bogs in the middle of Ireland. Many of my earliest days of cycling involved 200 km loops out into the bog of Allen. This painting came out of a later day. #ArtYear #Scape #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on backing board. The bottom two thirds is the lake with its shore in the foreground. A jagged humpbacked mountain sits on the horizon. It is in many knobbly segments in greys and magenta with a golden bottom, lower steep slopes and highlighted bits dotted along several sections of its higher parts between the darker greys and magenta. Slopes of other mountains begin at the left edge in ochre and dark green, and a small pale blue peaked mountain in the distance seen in the gap between them. The lake is a grey green, dark in the centre, pale along the far edge at the base of the mountain and on the far left side by its soft shore. The end of the stone jetty peeps out from the right edge in the foreground. It is rendered in dark magenta and greys where it is in shadow, and in pale grey on its walking surface and three steps to the water. The rest of the foreground is three boats resting on a pebble strand. The boats are blue with alizarin trim and cross-pieces, and have their backs to the water. The pebbles are on a orange and pink background and rendered in greys of lilac and pink with navy shadows. Blue ropes hang from each boat to the bottom edge. The sky is a pale swirling grey green with slight streaks of red in it. Signed bottom right in magenta on the pebbles, Liam Daly.

A Mayo #painting, "Doolough Boats". if you’re on the road from Killary Harbour up to Clew Bay, you’ll go through the valley of Delphi and then you hit Doolough. If you're on a bicycle you'll stop, enjoy the iconic view as you approach the jetty, then stop again to look back. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in ink lines, water media and white gel pen. Terrace of 6 narrow buildings, with the leftmost having 5 stories but each of the rest 4 stories and 2 bays wide with shop fronts at street level. They are all different shades of orange and pink with brick indicated sometimes, except one building in the middle which is white over a dark blue shop front of three narrow dark arches. The building at the left end has balconies at the corner windows on the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors. Roofs are slate of blues and purples. The river stone wall runs across the bottom in purples and greens and greys with isolated stones highlighted by solid shape or outline in black or white. The river is purple brown green blue sort of. Roofs are blue or purple slate. Windows mostly black. The tops of cars and vans can be seen between the river wall and the shop fronts. Sky is left blank white. Signed bottom right Liam Daly

Ah here, have another #painting. "Ormond Quay" was done 3 years ago. I based it on a lifetime of loving Dublin City's quays. I like buildings, squares, rectangles, right angles, that sort of thing, and my head is full of them all the time. Sometimes they come out like this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics. Street scene showing two shops. On the left is a small shop with a red sign on the fascia in yellow: "Fruit & Vegetables". Two women are seen from behind about to walk in the door. The one closest to the door has fair hair, and a long red coat, while the woman behind her has short brown hair, and a mustard jacket over a blue skirt or dress, with a little red bag over her right shoulder. The shop window has colourful produce of reds and yellows and is not much wider than the narrow door to its left. Window and door frame is white, wall is red, and surround of sign above is purple blue. Shop on right has red & white striped canopy. A man and woman stand looking in the window, he in a generally indistinct dark brown that blends trousers, jacket and head with hat. His hands are in his pockets as he leans lightly into the woman who has brown hair, and a long blue coat, as she leans lightly back into him. A younger short-haired blonde woman in red trousers and short blue jacket wheels past a buggy with a child to the right edge of the painting. Path is grey, road is blue and red with yellow line. Kerb is an uneven black, and most of the shapes in the picture have a broken sketchy black outline. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly '94

A #painting from way back now, from a time when my head was full of hopes and dreams. "Meath Street Shopping" came out of, well, liking one of Dublin's streets, one where I did a lot of shopping when I was a teenager. That's it really. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Text: I think, the only person who spoke to me was a little kid when I was zig-zagging my way through the lesser streets of the suburban grid here of Lincoln. There was a little kid, at most three, sitting on a little plastic tractor and he beams at me, his eyes, and then he says: -Hello fucker! His sister told him not to do that. His sister was a little bit bigger. I had already started to say Hi, not realising what he was saying, and smiling at him. He seemed happy.

On this day in 1996 I was cycling in Nebraska, about to cycle out of Lincoln having just recorded for my journal the previous day of cycling from Omaha which, other than being handed a sub for lunch, was the first day where nobody spoke to me between accommodations except for this little kid:

Thanks very much.

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Very loosely painted in acrylic on textured paper 20 in x 16 in or 50 cm x 40 cm. Foreground is Dublin's Grand Canal water of Portobello Harbour rendered in pink through broad horizontal strokes over an orange under-painting with white and yellow highlights. On the far bank behind a chain hanging from a series of dark bollards is the 3-storey Portobello House rendered in blue with cream portico porch & brick edging. On the roof between and higher than chimneys is a mounted cupola above the triangular pediment which houses a clock. The building is 9 windows wide, 3 windows wide in the centre section between the portico porch and the pediment, and 3 windows wide on either side. All windows have cream edging loosely applied. The left side of the building is in shadow and a darker blue but also 3 windows wide. Across the road to the right from it is a 3-storey red building on a corner with the left side in shadow so a darker red. Its roof is dark blue slate with dormer windows and a gable on each side at the corner.. The sky is comprised of broad messy yellow and pink strokes, Signed bottom right, Liam Daly '94

A Dublin #painting from way way back for you. "Portobello" I painted because I used to cycle and walk past all the time, always liking its space as well as the Jack B Yeats association. Upstairs on video tape still to be converted to digital I've a film of me doing this painting. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Text: I think, the only person who spoke to me was a little kid when I was zig-zagging my way through the lesser streets of the suburban grid here of Lincoln. There was a little kid, at most three, sitting on a little plastic tractor and he beams at me, his eyes, and then he says: -Hello fucker! His sister told him not to do that. His sister was a little bit bigger. I had already started to say Hi, not realising what he was saying, and smiling at him. He seemed happy.

On this day in 1996 I was cycling in Nebraska, about to cycle out of Lincoln having just recorded for my journal the previous day of cycling from Omaha which, other than being handed a sub for lunch, was the first day where nobody spoke to me between accommodations except for this little kid:

Landscape format, loosely painted in acrylics on mat board. Street with maroon surface runs from bottom bending away to right. On left is green 4-story hotel building with yellow detailing and seven peaks in roof accommodating 4th floor windows. Five more 3-story retail buildings complete terrace to its right until it bends and is obscured by building on right side of street, a half-timbered white and black mock tudor tower with clock and weather vane. Lower parts of tower are red brick with wide arched window below a small horizontal one. Square wooden planters mark right edge of street in foregound with shadow side of bluck planks facing street, and sunshine sides facing viewer of bright green. White railings run down centre of street, with segments of blue shadow caused by planters to their right. A three-light lamp-post on left is tallest structure. Sky is unclouded blue albeit painted in a smokey style with hints of red breaking through. Signed bottom left: Liam Daly

"Portrush Station", a #painting from a time I spent on my bicycle in Ireland's Antrim coast. After starting the day in Derry I cycled by Lough Foyle and Magilligan and around Binevenagh. I was sick when I reached Portrush so conked out and the next day walked around and painted. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. In the foreground a grey horse is standing facing the viewer over the top of a dry stone wall at the bottom of a small hill. The horse's right side is in dark shadow and its left side in bright sunlight. Behind it is a rough lumpy scraggy small field rendered in ochre, green and touches of muted red, which rises up to where sitting at the top is a traditional white thatched cottage, its gable end on the left a brilliant white, and its front in soft blue shadow. The right end of the cottage is obscured by the body of the horse. The right edge of the field has a thick row of bushes and at the top of the field to the left of the cottage are two isolated green bushes. There is a slightly worn track in the grass to the left of the horse up to the cottage. The sky, which occupies the top half of the painting, is a dramatic combination of a light painterly teal with a massive bold purple smokey cloud coming in from the left edge from the top to the bottom of the sky. Only the tops of the craggy grey stones along the top of the wall are visible along the bottom of the painting, and more so towards the right directly in front of the horse. Signed bottom left, Liam Daly

"Inishmore Horse". A special #painting for me. As an unpaid carer I don't earn much but wanted to give back. So with permission I used a friend's photo as reference, and donated half of the proceeds to the charity of their choice - the Down Syndrome Centre in Dublin's northside. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm

To date I have found 54 of my paintings being used by different sellers on Temu, each painting being on any number of items. You have to list every single item when filing the copyright infringement. So far I've had 41 of my paintings removed, of every instance of them I can find. I'm getting there.