eolaí the artist

Tonight is Night 3 of my 5-night annual online sale of new paintings. 6 more new works going up on my site (and fb) every 30 mins from 8.30pm Irish Time. So far 9 of the 12 paintings posted over the last 2 nights have sold. Back to readying tonight's ones. Later. #SpeirGorm

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Stretching across the whole painting is a large dark blue, almost black, rock on a beach. Both smooth and jagged in places, it has a ridge-like level top with fissures coming down, and at its base small rocks. At the bottom in the foreground is the ochre sand running the full width of the bottom of the painting with frothing water receding at the right edge leaving a section of dark wet sand behind in front of the rock. Beyond the rock in the distance is a sliver of dancing sparkling green-blue ocean and along the horizon rendered in pale blue, not too different in value from that of the water, is a feint low island that stretches the full width of the painting, with small trees and cottages and telegraph poles. No details like doors or windows can be made out such is the soft similarity of the different blues used for features on the island. The sky is a watery, cloudy, very pale blue at its brightest at the bottom. Signed bottom left in red on the sand: Liam Daly

Have another #painting. "From Eyrephort" came out of a few days in a cottage on the edge of the Atlantic, where this beach and its view of enticing islands, was just behind. But mostly it's about the rock. I love a big rock, and sometimes I'll celebrate it in paint. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #JuneSea

I haven't exactly been quiet about it 🙂

And Night 2 (of a projected 5) has just started of my new collection of paintings going online. 6 more new paintings being rolled out every 30 minutes tonight.

First night of the sale of new paintings went well, with 4 of last night's 6 paintings sold so far. Another 6 new works will be posted online tonight starting at 8.30 (Irish Time). Details are in previous posts and on my website (see profile). #SpeirGorm

Landscape format in bold acrylics on mat board. A rich blue bay coming in from the left to a crescent cream beach with feint lines of wine and pink seaweed and olive coloured dunes behind it to the right. In the foreground is a sloping downward field of lime grass dotted with blue, brown and cream strokes, which hides all but a purple and blue slate roof and top of a white gable of a house on the right overlooking the beach. and the tops of some green and red and blue bushes by the left edge. A dark pole rises up from the bottom of the field against the beach and the ocean to hold a wire that goes across to the right above the house, and down to the ground behind the bushes on the left. At far end of the beach are hills and headlands of muted greens, with the nearest one having on the right dark woods of pine trees in blues and grey-green, and the more distant hills on the left having white dots of houses. The headlands have rocky edges of grey and maroon. Sky is yellow with some orange horizontal strokes. Signed top left: Liam Daly

A west Cork #painting for you. "Long Strand" came from cycling the length of the beach, on the other side of the dunes, and all around those parts. It's a rather calmingly beautiful area, even when the ocean is doing oceany things like roaring and battering rocks #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #TidesOutTuesday

Posting will be erratic today and over next few days as I'm having my annual online sale of new paintings (postponed from last year) - and am up to my tonsils. See my website for details (liamdaly.com) Will happen simultaneously on my website and my FB art page (LiamDalyArt) #SpeirGorm

Landscape format in loose painterly acrylics on mat board. Under a canary yellow sky, a pale metallic tram, rendered as very pale blue with a thin yellow line running the length of its cars above its dark blue windows, is crossing a bridge from the left edge towards the right edge. The bridge is a single arch metal bridge of which we see the left half including the stone pier abutment at the left edge which supports a lamp and is rendered in lilac like the stone wall of the river it adjoins. The metal of the bridge is painted cream with the left spandrel outlined in double blue lines and containing swirling patterns. The top of the bridge has an ornate metal balustrade rendered in yellow with a blue top rail interspersed with two stone uprights and a wider one on the right edge which is in the centre of the bridge and contains the year "1821". Underside of the arch is very dark blue. The water of the River Liffey is red with dark blue ripples. Heuston Station is about 100 metres behind the tram. The palazzo style central block of 9 window bays is rendered in orange with lilac-grey, blue, and green detailing including on the top balustrade, from which 3 flagpoles rise at the front and centre up into the yellow sky which has smudges of green and pale orange. 4 window bays are in view on the side closest to the bridge. A side building of 2 storeys is lower than the main block and has a slate roof rendered in blue. Photo taken before painting was signed.

Let me share a #painting with you. "Heuston I" was the first time I painted Dublin city's main western railway station, and the bridge beside it that also carries the name of Seán Heuston. I love that station and bridge, and the place they hold in the city - and the country even. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

"Sheep, Stone Wall II" Art Print for Sale by eolai A painting of some sheep in Ireland. And of a stone wall. • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.

The original of my painting of sheep and a stone wall in Ireland went to a good home in Dublin, but Art Prints of it are available here: www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/... #SpeirGorm

My own site is: liamdaly.com though I only have a limited amount of my back catalogue on there at the moment (adding all the time). The link to my print shop (it's in my profile) will show nearly 500 paintings, most of them of Ireland.

Thanks very much!

Yes, it was an ambitious idea. I was unfamiliar with Galison. Checking out their stuff they do have lovely pieces - though reading the small print I see they only deliver to the US (in fact only to the Continental US, I think) so it's not something I can look at further unfortunately.

It does have such a dramatic presence, and beautiful with it. I've done several paintings of it, with more to come.

Landscape format, loosely painted on mat board. Bottom third is bright blue water of the harbour in horizontal strokes. Sky is broken canary yellow brushed over red. City is band across the middle including in greys of blue and green and purple, the round and pointed, wide and dark, Reginald's tower in the centre; a taller church steeple to the right in greys of lilac and pale blue; boat shape suggestions along the quayside, and general building shapes with dark red window hints, and some touches of dark red edgings. The painting was photographed before I added my signature.

Have a #painting. The last time I was in Waterford city it was dark and it was wet and it was romantic, which I haven't worked out how to paint yet. So here's "Waterford II" which came out of a sunnier time. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Thanks very much. It was actually fun doing this. I wouldn't always describe doing paintings as fun.

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas panel. Turquoise sky over loosely painted town of buildings at water front and stacked behind up to top of hill. Roofs are bright red almost pink, fronts are cream with softly brushed window shapes of orange, navy or turquoise, shadows are orange and dark blue. Street level has shop fronts abstract in reds and dark blue with white highlights for signage and window reflections. Water is in the foreground with the harbour coming in from the left housing 3 small fishing boats each with a wheelhouse and facing in to the buildings. The boats are almost abstract in their arrangement of colours of orange, blues, whites, and turquoise. The water is rendered in pink and turquoise with blue and turquoise horizontal strokes and some reflected colours of the boats. Dark turquoise of a railing along a pier runs across bottom with orange nets draped over in bottom right corner. Signed top left in dark blue: Liam

Have an Irish #painting. "Cobh I" is the first I did of the Cork harbour town. Because I love shapes, and buildings and boats are great shapes. Like most of the paintings I show you it's a corner of Ireland I'm well overdue another visit. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunday

Landscape format in black ink line and water media on white watercolour paper. Side profile of a little boat on wheels, blue on the underneath parts and red all over everywhere else including the little wheelhouse. There are ropes, there are rails, there are panels, there is rust, there is a lot of aged peeling paint. There is some deliberate paint splatters underneath around the shadow. Boat is facing right resting on a rusted metal frame with two wheels close together visible on viewer side. There is no sky, with the background left white. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

A #painting from last year. "Kilmore Quay Boat" came out of looking at this boat in Ireland's southeast for an age once upon a time. Its shape and texture kept bringing me back for repeat visits. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #ColorADay #RedWed

"Wexford. The Bullring (Ireland)" Art Print for Sale by eolai I like Wexford town. With its streets of orange and footpaths of gold. What's not to like about Ireland's sunny southeast... • Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Find your thing.

The original of my Wexford painting of the Bull Ring went to a good home, but Art Prints of it are available here: www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/... #SpeirGorm

Landscape format in black ink line on white is a scribbley disjointed line drawing of a male figure, with handwritten to the right of him: "Seymour ignored her when she said she'd put manners on him - because it never occurred to him that manners was a german shepherd." (Copyright symbol American Hell)

Seymour ignored her. A cartoon I drew back when there were more hours in the day.

Portrait format in acrylic on mat-board. Five odd socks hanging from a washing line. The line runs diagonally from the top right corner down to just above halfway up the left side. The left-most sock is white with red polka dots and held on by a single yellow peg. It is truncated by left edge of painting. Next sock to its right is white with black polka dots, and red heel and toe. It is held by a single green peg. The central sock is the shortest, and is lilac with some blue mark on it and shading of purple. The bottom end is suggestive of individual toes. It is held by a red peg. The sock to its right is the longest. It is grey, crumpled with darker grey shading, and held by a black peg. The sock on the right held by a yellow peg in the top right corner is white with blue horizontal stripes, and red in the toe, heel, and ankle band. The background has a bottom half of green with some texture, suggestive of grass. Above that, running behind the socks is a horizontal band of dark brown suggestive of a wall, and above that is a rich blue of a sky. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

Have a #painting while we pretend briefly the world is no more than a little odd. "Socks on Line" was one of the paintings done in the first of my three 24-hour marathon live-streaming painting events I organised about ten years ago. Would be fun to try again some day. #SpeirGorm #FebruArty #ArtYear

Thank you very much. Originally I thought I'd make a whole series of Istanbul paintings in this fashion, but life as usual. And I think you're right - that it would, and if I had a large enough resolution image of it I'd produce one, but I don't even have an image good enough for a print.

Landscape format in bold acrylics and black ink lines on paper. Looking down on jumble of buildings, abstracted into three-dimensional shapes with hints of roofs and windows and streets, in red, yellow and white with some touches of light blue-grey. Beyond is the titular water inlet rendered in royal blue, and coming in from the left via a narrow channel before it widens out, while the city on the right gets more abstracted and on the far side of the water is swathes of pale purple and green with yellow blobs on top and the ink lines of the suggested city showing through. Signature in bottom right is indistinct but it actually says, Liam Nov '93

An older #painting. In 1992 I cycled from Dublin to Istanbul (give or take the water bits). After a month there I crossed the Sea of Marmara and cycled on. "The Golden Horn" came from being taken by the views of Istanbul from the Galata Tower. I painted it when I returned home. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Spotted Pig by eolai | Redbubble A painting of a spotted pig. An orange pig, with yellow highlights and violet spots.

The original of my spotted pig painting, being a present, went to a little girl - but it probably works well on a mug, notebook, t-shirt, and some other things. If that's your cup of tea, you can find them here: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/3742...

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Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. Behind a purple stone wall with black gaps and crevices and topped with blue upright stones and small orange flowers along their tops, are the visible ends of two neighbouring white-washed single-story thatched cottages and in the gap between them is patchwork of pale green fields separated by dark green hedgerows sloping up from the centre and topped behind a tree-filled distant hedgerow by a pyramidal blue rocky peak, with paler blue peaks behind it on both sides, of the Twelve Bens mountain range. A front-facing window on both cottages is cropped by the respective edge of the painting, and the view through the gap is slightly off-centre such that we see the gable of the cottage on the right, in slight warm shadow. Blue sky at the top peeks through white fluffy clouds with pale grey bottoms. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

#painting "Connemara Between" is a view I saw when cycling in the west of Ireland - around the Renvyle peninsula looking back east. The view did feel a bit postcard-ish, but sometimes Ireland can be that way. Honestly, it was like that when I got there officer. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

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Landscape format in stylized acrylics on paper 50 cm x 40 cm. Dominant feature is mountain, conical with rounded peak, its base stretching along the horizon from left edge to right edge, and rendered in midnight blue with bold shapes of white, presumably snow, on its upper slopes. Along bottom edge is dunes of undulating flat olive green with tufts of individual long blades of grass. Between dunes and mountain is canary yellow with several lines of hard-edged bushes of green. Behind mountain is cloud of dark green-greys in brush strokes following conical shape of mountain except for fluffy top edge which is rendered in a wide squiggly ochre line. Narrow glimpse of blue sky is at the top. Signed bottom right in blue, Liam '95

A #painting "Nephin" was painted way back during a week of painting in Sligo. One day the rain and clouds disappeared for 15 minutes so I grabbed the binoculars and quickly started this view of the Mayo mountain before it was lost again to the rain. #BlueSkyMonday #ArtYear #SpeirGorm #MountainMonday

That's me being obsessed with shape. Thanks very much!

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas panel. Sunset cloudy sky. Little single-storey Tudor-revival wooden house surrounded by trees and bushes and flowers. A gravel path leads to the door. Railings are visible from left side. The roof has red tiles, the house is half-timbered with the wooden bottom and detailing black on a white background. Although the house is T-shaped, it appears L-shaped from this angle, the other half of the T being obscured from view. A small porch covering of red-tiles extends out over a step in front of the door. Windows with 3 vertical panes are on each of the 3 visible walls, though the one to the right of the door is mostly obscured by a large green flat rectangular bush growing up like a green mattress leaning against the house. The beds of roses either side of the path are in bloom. Signed at bottom towards the right, Liam '91

Have a #painting "The Lodge" was my grandparents' home, the lodge house of the Phoenix Park Racecourse in Dublin, which I painted in another lifetime in 4 very long days of love. My mother took it off me and framed it for Dad and her. Which is why it hangs opposite me right now. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear