New Paintings in Progress

After a great weekend in Dalkey, I have found huge excitement and energy and so immediately harnessed it and put it into two new paintings!! The beginnings of these paintings are photographed here. Look out for the finished pieces at a later date!

 

© Barbara Monahan Cocoon Design

© barbara Monahan Cocoon Design

 

Thank You!!

I would like to say a huge thank you to all my friends and supporters, old and new, who came to visit me in Dalkey over the weekend, and especially to those of you who bought / commissioned some of my work, eight pieces, and you know who you are, Thank You! I hope you enjoy your piece of art.

© Barbara Monahan, Cocoon Design

© Barbara Monahan Cocoon Design 2009

© Barbara Monahan, Cocoon Design

The Winter Fair

Its that time of the year again, and the Winter Fair is coming to the Dalkey Heritage Centre on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of November. Please be sure to visit my stand in the gallery space, I’m looking forward to meeting you.

New Work in Oils

Its been awhile since I have posted anything here, but I have been busy changing from acrylic paint to oils, and I LOVE working in oils. The freedom is absolutely fantastic! The paint moves so much easier, and has also given me a new style where I am using my brushes more and less of my pallette knife. You can come and see the results for real at the Winter Fair in the Dalkey Heritage Centre on the 14th and 15th of November. Please come and say hello, I’d love to meet you.

© Barbara Monahan, Cocoon Design

© Barbara Monahan, Cocoon Design

Artwalk

As part of an initiative organised through Dublin City Council, I will be exhibiting my work along the boardwalk on the Liffey this weekend, Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th, between O’Connell Bridge and Halfpenny Bridge, from 11am until 5pm. If you are in town this weekend, please come along and say hello. It would be nice to meet you. 

    

Commission Work

Ocassionally I do take on commissioned work and charge the same prices for the pieces as I would had they not been commissioned. My latest commission has a lovely story behind it….the person who commissioned me goes fishing on his holidays to a rock in the Aran Islands. This rock obviously meant a great deal to him. He had taken some photographs of it, and asked me to paint it, so he could  enjoy it at home when he wasn’t fishing. He never knew what the rock’s name was in english, but it translated from the irish as Cliff of the Wagtail, which was a nice title for the piece. The painting was very successful, and he was more than happy with what I had done. In his words, ‘It turned out exactly as I thought it would’. It now holds pride of place over the fireplace in his sitting room. I found it very rewarding to create something that meant so much.

Directory of Contemporary Irish Artists

The Directory of Contemporary Irish Artists is a directory whose aim is to profile a wide range of new and emerging as well as established artists involved in both abstract and representational art in a variety of media.

The following link will take you directly to my profile on this directory;

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/contemporary-artists/barbara-monahan.htm

You can also link through to the directory from my blogroll opposite, Irish Art; Visual Arts in Ireland