Born a man

Original Sketch

"Those masterful images because complete
Grew in pure mind, but out of what began?
A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a street,
Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can,
Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart."

-W.B. Yeats

Original sketch done by acident and ....boredom, during a lecture. The last two were worked up in photoshop, and the last section of the poem, 'The Circus Animals Desertion' by W.B. Yeats was added.

Young Artists Local Exhibition

This exhibition has been organized by my friend Martina Gleason. It is a group exhibition, opening on December third, and will be running all week.

The exhibition will be opened by Lady Dunraven, and 25 percent of all the proceeds go to the Adare Branch Alzheimer's Center.

I will post pictures of some of my work and others shortly, after the exhibition has opened.

Vincent Hui

Some interesting artwork by Vincent Hui. I really like his sketchbook work. its interesting how he uses pencil with acrylic.

Finished Works

Sketchbook Work



Michael McConnell

Illustrations by Michael Mconnell

In Michael McConnell's work, the innocence and vulnerability associated with children and animals is constrained within one figure. He has utilized the forms usually used as hunting trophies to transform them into visions of a lost childhood.

Odilon Redon

'Crying Spider,' by Odilon Redon

Lousie Bourgeois Spider art

Some work by Louise Borgeois. The spider is a frequent subject matter in her work.

 "Typical of the ambiguous and contradictory emotions found in and elicited by her work, the spider (or mother) is simultaneously frightening, larger than life and devouring – representative of…well, mothers, and of the sustenance of life… the spider is also a weaver – of stories, social threads, interconnectedness; a spider’s web is both practical and beautiful to behold. To kill a spider is bad luck. Bourgeois, named by her feminist mother, after Louise Michel, an anarchist involved in the Paris Commune, has said “my best friend was my mother and she was deliberate, clever, patient, soothing, reasonable, dainty, subtle, indispensable, neat and useful as a spider.” A tapestry-repairer and a strong role model in many ways, her mother nevertheless tolerated a visible affair between Louise’s father and her governess, a self-described childhood ‘trauma’ that Bourgeois has revisited in her artwork through out her life."

- http://www.defenestrator.org/spider_woman

Progress Review

All set up for my Progress Review today!