RDH: MAY 2024

02/05/24

Late Night Art Belfast

Hit The North

'Smoke' Leopold Kessler and Shiro Masuyama at PS Squared

Áine Gordon - Arcade Studios

‘This Is Not a Chair’ by Maya Todd at DAS

FGB at Vault Studios

A busy busy night!

05/05/24

Added crow / plague mask to soldier’s face. Not sure where, if anywhere, it’s going to go. Ran it’s course perhaps? Palette cleansed.

…action painting?

08/05/24

“Gallery Visit” showing in ArtFest 3!

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

09/05/24

Would be good to start thinking about plan…

10/05/24

12/05/24

Drawings to acetate. Cuprinol spillage - use to benefit? Bleached out wartime work - it reached the end. So, today in the studio - rather than painting… worked on drawing up new canvases. NB: Paint needed through the week.

Three works started - went for a dander in a thundery downpour holding a couple of the new canvases over my head. Letting the heavy raindrops move the unfixed charcoal. Funny, the momento mori could have done with a few more and the ‘Tesla’ a little less. HINDSIGHT!

Studio Shot - 12/05/24

12/05/24

Hold the family close. Bus decompress time.

18/05/24

19/05/24

20/05/24

If you’re going to do something, do it right!

26/05/24

“Week in Art” Mona Lisa interview really interesting. “The living earth”.

“Talk Art” Shaqúelle Whyte.

Solid progress. No titles as yet - Hindsight? Could work for all three really.

29/05/24

Dublin.

'Sun, Waiting for Flawless' in Project Art Centre

Deirdre O'Mahony's 'The Quickening' at the Douglas Hyde

Bernadette Doolan at the LAB

Chloe Austin at the LAB

Hazel O'Sullivan at the LAB

It’s always sunny in Dublin.

2023 in Pictures

JANUARY

Three works in progress on the studio wall

'Soldier Boy Study'

Close up of 'Adrift Study'

A foggy January night

FEBRUARY

'A Matter of Fiction' - completed in the studio

Mirror Mirror

Late night sketching

MARCH

Hand work

Taking Time over 'Soldier Boy'

Our beautiful girl turns 1

APRIL

Detail of 'Check your Pockets'

Some works rattle on until they cave

Gradient added to background of 'Soldier Boy'

MAY

Louise Wallace at the MAC, Belfast

Niamh O'Malley at the Golden Thread Gallery

Ciarraí MacCormac

Stunning work by EMIC in Belfast City Centre

Two works in progress - beast and the beauty (working titles)

Trip to the river

Daniel Coleman in the RHA, Dublin

Mags Geaney at the RHA, Dublin

Avril Corroon at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin

JUNE

Two new works - a little on the personal side

Charys Wilson at the Golden Thread Gallery

Eimhéar Atkinson at the Belfast School of Art Degree Show

'Adrift Study' in Catalyst Auction show

'Small Earth (Eden)' by Katherine Sankey

JULY

Detail of 'In a Huff'

Matthew Wilson in Threshold Gallery

'Put it Away'

Wonky Studio Shot

Baby number 2 - coming 2024

Detail of 'Marina' - in progress

AUGUST

Still from 'The New Dawn Fades' by Clare Langan - Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

Imogen

Drawing of Christmas dinner - circa 1997

London bound

Part of the Catalyst Members' Show

Detail of 'Marina' background work

Sunset over Glenshane

Beginning of 'The Night Draws Near' event by Array Collective, Ulster Museum Belfast

SEPTEMBER

Chloe Austin at PS2, Belfast

Korakrit Arunanondchai at the MAC, Belfast

'Marina' completed

Banu Cennetoğlu at VOID, Derry

New works in progress

OCTOBER

'Indifferent Study' in progress

Detail of 'A Séance in London' in progress

'Red Lines' on display at the Royal Arcade Academy Exhibition

VAULT Studios, Belfast

'Defy the System' drawing

Studio Shot - Early October

'Amy Study' in early stages

Deferral / Echo by Kwok Tsui in CCA, Derry

'Messy Business' show at QSS, Belfast

Juggling too many works at one time.

Atoosa Pour Hosseini at Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

NOVEMBER

Cameron Clarke at DAS, Belfast

Save our Sperrins exhibition at 2Royal Avenue, Belfast

'Indifferent Study' finished

'Amy Study' finished

Detail of 'A Séance in London' in Progress

DECEMBER

Additions and Omissions

Andy Warhol at the Hugh Lane, Dublin

Hands detail coming together

re-working an old canvas

Final studio shot of the year.

RDH: NOVEMBER 2020

01/11/20

Focus required…

…reaching it back to integrity of practice.

Large scale drawings?

02/11/20

Eventual studio time - detail of “Misunderstood” in progress

03/11/20

Great to get imagery into some semblance of order.

“Thinking through making.” - Joy Gerrard during interview with GTG. Watch here.

Some good sketchbook work tonight.

06/11/20

“Misunderstood” finished.

07/11/20

Reusing one canvas and starting another.

08/11/20

…settling back into a new routine… still healing.

10/11/20

11/11/20

IMMA Talk: From the Rego Studio.

13/11/20

Limbo-Land yet again.

14/11/20

Finding it difficult to concentrate with all going on. Just wish that aspects were sorted so that some kind of routine could be adhered to.

Some results but not all.

Detail of “Norwegian Nude” - work in progress.

…giving up the ghost on the little ‘go cart’ piece. It just went stale but that’s OK. It wasn’t the right time.

16/11/20

Some sketchbook work tonight.

19/11/20

Absolutely baltic in the studio.

Studio Shot: 19/11/20

20/11/20

Mostly focused on “Norwegian Nude” today but building up layers on other pieces too.

Left to Right: “Troublesome” - “Shock” - “Norwegian Nude”

22/11/20

Detail of hand in “Norwegian Nude” in progress.

Really good progress today.

23/11/20

BP 158/113

26/11/20

Site update

27/11/20

Really great online talk from the Garter Lane Arts Centre: Chloe Austin in conversation with Matt Higgs, Kitsch Doom, and Ciara O Neill.

Did a few quick sketch of the speakers as they discussed their practices.

29/11/20

…readjust, centre, breathe and focus on what matters.

30/11/20

After having a long, hard look at “Troublesome” - came to the realisation that figure is complete. Nice to leave it loose in parts. It explains what it needs to without having to divulge anything else.

Bit of building work in the background and it’s finished.

Decorations are up and a little winter halo to round off a very odd month.