eolaí the artist (@eolai) — Bluesky Profile

9 hours ago

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14 hours ago

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16 hours ago

Thanks very much!

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19 hours ago

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Grey wing of a jet aeroplane extends out along the left edge to the top. Below is a patchwork of irregular shaped green fields, of many shades of green - with elements of yellow, ochre, and blue, as well as hues of leaf greens. Blue and wine rough lines are hedgerows. In the distance close to the very high horizon are very small light horizontal marks indicating buildings. The sky is a narrow band of very pale blue with underlying pink, and a tiny sliver of pale blue is a bay between the sky and part of the land from the wing on the left across to past the centre point. I took the photo of the painting before I signed it.

Have a #painting "Dublin from the air" was one of the paintings that I painted during my 3rd annual 24-hour live-stream of painting on video. Good times. Some day, when life is different, maybe there'll be something similar again. #art #scape #SpeirGhorm

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21 hours ago

Thanks very much. I found it a completely gorgeous scene.

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2 weeks ago

Landscape format in loosely painted acrylics on canvas. View from directly across River Liffey of a row of five and half 4-storey buildings, all bar the rightmost one are narrow (2 narrow-window bays wide) with dark shop fronts on ground floor, with fascias of dark green, black, white and dark blue. Voodoo is on one, just below a dark clock which contrasts with bright orange red-brick of the upper storeys it projects out from. All buildings bar the leftmost cream one have various shades of red brick upper stories. Second building from left has alternating blue bricks in the vertical bricks coming up from the arches above each window. Building on right edge is 3 window bays wide and has grey stone at street level. All buildings have a flat top front edge with grey cap stone and some having small triangular hat of roof peeping up behind to join the red brick chimneys. Sky is pure blue. Flag poles and lamp posts are pale grey. River wall is in greys with blue and white and dark details of random individual bricks, some solid, some outlined, and pointing. Lowest part of wall close to water is a dark greeny-blue of seaweed. River itself is dark teal. Signed bottom right in yellow, Liam Daly

Have yerselves a #painting. "Arran Quay" came out of, well, the same place all my paintings of Dublin's quays comes out of - namely my walks along the river as I indulge my love of squares and rectangles that are city streets. #art #scape #SpeirGhorm

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1 day ago

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. View along a small road on the right, grey-blue and light purple, with grass down its middle. It bends past 2 derelict buildings on the left with the gables facing the viewer just past a roadside bank of overgrown tall grasses and weeds of greens and yellows and browns. Near gable has flat stones, of greys and browns, like slate making up its gable and from its roof is growing an orange-cream brush. The other building is inset further back and its stones are mostly covered by a cream textured plaster attached to which we see a sliver of a red roof, and chimney with a dark red-ish plant growing alongside it. Sky is very dark grey of purple and blue except for bright horizon of pale horizontal clouds. Roadside poles lean slightly and are covered in ivy. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam Daly

A #painting to look at. "Clare Road" came out of a day I mostly spent cycling high above the Shannon estuary after crossing it from north Kerry. A road populated by wildflowers and not much else, until these houses. I like walls. I like red corrugated roofs. So I painted them. #art #SpeirGhorm

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1 day ago

Thank you very much. That's very nice of you to say.

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2 days ago

LinkedIn says I'm getting noticed. Wish I'd washed my hair now. For who LinkedIn says are noticing me, those two people.

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2 days ago

Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Under a painterly yellow sky the lilac-blue grey gothic St Colman's Cathedral with its tall steeple and green copper roof sits on the top of hill with directly underneath it a row of tall dark blue supporting arches under the lilac stone boundary wall and walkway which drops down to a jumble of slate roofs and the rest of the town that covers the hill. The houses are all four-story colourful buildings with shop fronts at ground level. Buildings mostly have contrasting coloured trim around windows and other details, like white on blue, red on yellow, and green on red. Roofs are slate, rendered in blues and purples with many buildings have two or three dormer windows. The street surface at the bottom is a pink-purple and several small black and turquoise trees are dotted along. Signed top left in red, Liam Daly

Have a #painting from the southwest of Ireland. "Cobh IV" was not the first time I painted the Cork harbour town, and if I ever finish the paintings currently in progress then it won't be the last either. Shapes. I like them. #art #SpeirGhorm

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2 days ago

Thanks very much!

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2 months ago

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas panel. Stone feature of three standing stones with a large slim slab on top and another stone to the right, which along with the foreground is rendered in a very dark combination of blue and red and silhouetted against a sky which has a central rough oval porthole of light blue that is surrounded by a soft white rim and purple cloud that gets darker as it gets further from the hole. The horizon slopes a little down to the left. Signed bottom left in dark blue, Liam

A #painting for youse to have a goo at. "Poulnabrone I". Because I like big stones. This was the first time I painted Ireland's iconic portal tomb in County Clare's Burren. It used to hang in the US and in Australia but now hangs in a good home in County Derry. #art #StandingStoneSunday #SpeirGhorm

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3 weeks ago

Landscape format in bold acrylics on canvas. View diagonally across Thames at Westminster Bridge and the gothic orange-yellow Palace of Westminster, including the Houses of Parliament and the Elizabeth Tower housing Big Ben and pale clock faces - under a blue sky largely full of wispy pink and lilac clouds. In a homage to fauvism the bridge is painted in green and red, and the water in a grey green with isolated short horizontal strokes of purple and red, and also yellow where reflections of the towers are, as well as dark blue and red strokes in the shadow under the bridge. Six of the bridge's arches are in view, low and wide, with their underside a red so dark it's almost black, as is the loose outlining on the bridge's piers and metal balustrade. For the two left most arches you can see through to the water on the far side, which is pale pink. Signed bottom left in blue, Liam Daly

A #painting for you. Sometimes in Dublin west I cycle through Ballyfermot to the Luas, which I take to the Point before cycling to the port for a ferry to Wales - where I'd get a train to London. One of my favourite things to do there is a Thames walk. This is "Westminster", bridge and palace. #art

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3 days ago

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3 days ago

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3 days ago

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3 days ago

Thanks very much. Whenever I finish editing a video of me sketching there the summer before last, you'll likely see the sauna in the final cut.

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3 days ago

Thank you very much! When I lived in the US I did several trips where I stayed a few miles from the New Mexico state line, up about an elevation of 10,000 ft by the San Juan National Forest and the Rio Grande National Forest. Used to really love the aspens there.

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3 days ago

Thank you very much!

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3 days ago

Square format in bold painterly acrylics on canvas. Yellow and orange large leaves float over your head in the foreground against a background of tall straight black trunks and green foliage of evergreen trees with some blue sky peeping through on the right and in even smaller gaps in the top left corner. Above is a canopy of smaller yellow leaves with darker yellow leaves behind them and in between are some small twisted branches of almost black, whereas the large leaves in the foreground have no obvious branches connecting them so appear to float. The ground is a small glimpse of deep orange. Signed bottom left in light blue, Liam Daly

A #painting from a couple of years back. "Golden Leaves V" was started many years ago when I had a studio in an old cobbled stableyard, and a few acres of woods led down to the River Liffey so I would happily lose and find myself in them all the time. And who wouldn't? #art #SpeirGhorm

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1 month ago

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Small white cottage with very dark roof and white chimney is nearly half way up to the right nestled into a ledge on a hill 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 blue and green field over the stone wall to the right, and an olive green field to the left across a dark ditch, while behind the cottage are rounded hills of a darker olive green, and they're in front of a pale green and grey pointed rocky small mountain with blue mountains behind it on both sides. Sky is very pale pure blue. Along the bottom edge are the tops of some bright green bushes, and 3 small trees at the bottom of the stone wall, with pink trunks and branches rising into dark alizarin clumps. Signed bottom right in pale blue, Liam Daly

Time I suppose for a #painting. "Connemara Cottage II" was painted because I have a fondness for things I can't quite see properly, and even now in my chair as I look at this painting I raise myself up ever so slightly to try and see a bit more of the cottage. Mountains too though. #art #SpeirGhorm

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4 days ago

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Under a salmon pink sky the white metal pedestrian Ha'penny Bridge arches over the turquoise River Liffey truncated on the right before it joins the south bank. The turquoise water has flat distinct horizontal strokes of purple and green. They are all short but of varying lengths which some so short they are dots, creating a morse code rippling effect. On the left quay is a line of trees depicted by just thick clumps of green foliage with the tops of the narrow mostly red-brick buildings behind them peeping over the top. In the distance in the centre of the picture rises the square skyscaper of Liberty Hall, with alternating bands of blue green windows and grey stone or concrete. It is topped with a small square pale green square hat with a zig-zagging brim and dark shadow underneath. To the right of it behind the Ha'penny bridge is the classic building of the almost white Custom House topped with its central green dome. Behind it is the dark green and blue glass blocks that comprise the relatively modern IFSC. The Loopline railway bridge and a yellow double-decker bus can both be made out through the railings of the Ha'penny Bridge. Signed bottom right in dark blue, Liam Daly.

Have a Dublin #painting from a couple of years ago. "Ha'penny Bridge, Pink Sky" was on the go for years, because, well, I would keep looking at the scene every time I was in town and then think about it some more. Plus I kept having to wait for those days of salmon skies. #art #SpeirGhorm

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1 month ago

Portrait format in acrylics on mat board. Abstracted impressionistic very loose rendition of two men wearing caps and jackets sitting on a bench turned to each other in conversation. The men and the horizontal beams of the bench are in hues of blues and greens. There are no facial features, and in the case of the man on the right virtually no face at all as we see through to the background colour. The background is a painterly pale pink for the top two-thirds, and a loosely dry-brushed bold orange for the bottom third behind their feet, lower legs, and legs of the bench. I took the photograph of the painting before I added my signature.

A #painting called "Seated Men" which was the first I did in a series of paintings of men in conversation. It was subsequently used as the cover for a book of Irish short stories published for the benefit of the Haiti earthquake relief. #art #SpeirGhorm

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5 days ago

Even though there are plenty of very good reasons not to, I have recently started posting on Instagram again. I'm @eolai over there, should that be your cup of tea.

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2 weeks ago

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. A blue sky day. In the foreground a blue rowing boat, paint peeling, sits on a mound of lime grass. A few metres behind, running horizontally across the painting, is a stream, or narrow inlet, half full of orange seaweed with dark rocks protruding. Along its far side is a line of rocks, black and brown where they meet the seaweed and pale grey on top. Above the bank is a large area of gorse, a dense dark green bush with small yellow blossoms. The gorse reaches over half way across from the left edge. Back a few more metres in the centre of the painting is a small outbuilding in a warm grey with a blue corrugated roof and two very small dark windows. Rocky hills stretch behind it with a house behind a small orange hill on the left, and back some distance behind dry-stone walls and ruins is a larger house further back on the right also nestled behind a mound. Both houses have dark trees immediately behind them. Larger rocky brown and green hills are behind them, and behind again is the bottom of a large mountain of sage green which slopes down from the top left corner then flattens out as it goes behind the far house on the right. At the back across the painting is a line of pale blue rocky mountains with jagged peaks. Signed bottom left in red, Liam Daly

Time for a west of Ireland #painting. "Connemara Boat" was painted a couple of years back. It came out of a day I'd been cycling around north Connemara thinking how ridiculous everything was, having been arranged for me to paint by whatever forces it is that arranges such things. #art #SpeirGhorm

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6 days ago

That's very kind - thank you. I used to love watching that, though I was never brave enough to apply (plus tbh even if lucky enough to be selected I'd never get the time to participate). Saw a video with Tai promoting this year's and they've significantly changed the format which I think is a shame.

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6 days ago

Landscape format is loosely painted acrylics on canvas panel. Horizon is one third way up from the bottom, with all of the foreground being lightly undulating bog in dark maroons and oranges. Past it is a strip of low green hills with a patchwork of fields separated by darker green hedgerows, and along the horizon is a long lilac mountain mass on the left half with a pale blue mass further away to its right. Top half is sunset sky of one large billowing green-grey cloud with white edges surrounded by pinks, oranges, lilacs, sky blues, and yellow into white near the mountains at the horizon. Signed bottom left in light blue, Liam Daly

Am ignoring the news to share an old #painting with you. "Donegal Cloud" came out of a time when I lived briefly in the northwest corner of Ireland and of an evening with my little dog would spend good times looking at the sky as the sky looked at us. #art #SpeirGhorm

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1 week ago

Listening to the not-so-gentle whirring sounds from upstairs of the exercise bike as, after I applied his night-time eye-drops and we approach midnight, my 94-year-old father is cycling somewhere deep into where the internet lets him go.

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1 month ago

Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Between a yellow into orange sky, and a lime into green body of water, is a horizontal strip of a terrace of 10 houses (left to right: pale green, pale blue, paler blue, white, dark blue, red, mid-blue, yellow, pale blue, pink) with dark blue and purple slate roofs. Three houses have 3 stories, the rest 2. All have small dark windows. Behind are rooftops and gables, and in front is a dark blue quay wall running across the width of the painting. It has 2 small pale blue and white fishing boats docked on green and yellow seaweed at bottom of the quay wall on the right. A small round orange buoy floats in the middle of the harbour to the left. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly

Have a #painting. From a few years back "The Long Walk Again" is not the first time I've painted the iconic Galway scene. And knowing me it's unlikely to be the last. There are other places in the west of Ireland to paint, but something about the shapes and space draw me back here. #art #SpeirGhorm

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3 weeks ago

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas panel. View down cobble slipway or ramp to bay. Water is pale blue with grey stone pier on right continuing on straight, and wave wall on left which together with pier forms channel from ramp. Cobbles rendered in blues, greens and purples have yellow markings in series of short horizontal parallel lines and two white lines guiding down towards water. On left is small white storage hut with four full-size doors in primary red, yellow, blue and green. On the far side of the bay is a narrow horizontal strip of low hills rendered in a sort of lilac blue which contrasts with the paler water and sky. The sky is painterly cloudy turquoise broken left of centre by a tall post with two lamps rising from behind a stone wall that adjoins the multi-doored huts. Signed top right in red, Liam Daly

A west of Ireland #painting now. "Enniscrone Pier" was painted as one of a set of 4 paintings of the County Sligo seaside town where every year I get to go on a magical break from my carer role. The paintings were gifts for the people who make that magic happen. #art #SpeirGhorm

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