“Connemara Bog”
Canvas 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm (8 in x 8)
Update: SOLD (Prints are available)
This is the painting that started those paintings you don’t like. Or perhaps you love them. My favourite thing to do on Christmas Day is paint, because it’s a day when anything is possible – and that transmits itself into my painting. It means that the Christmas Day painting time I do is very special, regardless of what comes out. But the Christmas before last, just days after my annual sale in 2022, I began this little treasure. I didn’t finish it for ages, but it opened the door for so many other paintings.
Connemara Bog you say? It’s called that because I had two views in mind when painting it, both in South Connemara. One is Roundstone Bog, and the other is the from over by the entrance to the Rosmuc peninsula as you look northwest across those lakes to the Twelve Bens. I was ecstatic when I painted this – the beginning of it, that is. So I drank wine, it being Christmas and all. Didn’t manage to finish it for another year but life had changed.
UPDATE: This painting is now SOLD.
PRINTS
Art Prints of this Connemara painting are available here. The painting is also available on mugs, throw-pillows, and various things you probably didn’t realise you needed.
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