ANCESTRAL BREATH

On Saturday we took a road that is now very familiar.

We were visiting a friend's art exhibition, titled 'Ancestral Breath', at the Loughcrew Megalithic Centre. This is Lar's second exhibition at the centre and it opened earlier this week, in time for Autumn Equinox.

Lar Dooley a with Mrs H

Lar is a Primitive Artist who has developed his own unique style of painting

which is very textured and almost tempts the onlooker to touch the surfaces.

He is inspired by Ireland's ancient monuments and carvings.

I am very attracted by his depiction of the Poulnabrone Dolmen, Co Clare

The artist himself - Lar Dooley September 2018

Viewing The Cailleach.

The Weaver of Grass

left a comment on my last blog post saying 

that she expected to see something of the exhibition soon.

So in order to fulfil her request

here they are...

For more details and greater information please view

http://theeverlivingones.blogspot.com/2018/07/walking-with-cailleach-part-1.html

Loughcrew Megalithic Centre

Phew! It has been hot with a capital H with temperatures of up to 35. 5 deg C and no rain for 15 days,

a rare old novelty for Ireland. In consequence I dug into the back of my wardrobe and brought out my light weight linen clothes.

Mrs H's exhibition of her wonderful paintings are now on display in The Loughcrew Megalithic Centre. I have been forbidden to display them until they have been released on social media however, I can show you what is going on the outside and tell you that we have met some lovely kind and very interesting people from all over the world as well as meeting up again with old friends.

We set up the exhibition on Saturday 30th June and were very fortunate in having two very exceptional friends who took on the work of hanging and arranging the eighteen pictures on show.

They were Maj the ladder and Patsy who directed the order of hanging with a few suggestions put in by myself. We started at 10.15 and were totally ready by 12.45 for the 1pm opening.

The courtyard of the Loughcrew Megalithic Centre.

Visit the Centre - LOUGHCREW MEGALITHIC CENTRE

Two old lads: Lar and Seán  from Dublin having a chat.

The Artist entertains two lovely ladies from Drogheda.

A Monkey Puzzle Tree that caught my eye.

A twenty-nine year old Toyota Starlet that next year

will be a Road Tax free vehicle when it becomes thirty years of age.

Looking forward to seeing you all there at the

Tales from the Cailleach Exhibition

Where I will allow you to buy me

a coffee and a cake.

STONE and STRING

On our last day out we came home by a circuitous route that took us very close to the Burren

National Park. We did this because I thought I had seen a neolithic feature on my iPhone which turned out not to be one, however,  I really did see a stone man looking at me over the hedge.

Can you see his face  ?

As you are probably aware I have not posted for awhile and the reason is that Mrs H with a slight bit of help from me has been very busy preparing for her new exhibition. She has been doing all the behind the scenes work that artists have to do with their work, visits to the framers, selecting the right frame colour and style for each painting, besides having them all photographed and then resizing the images for our printer to make the art cards.

Additional cords

On the table is one of the finished paintings that we have brought back from the framers and you can see his cord stretching across the back which will be used by the new owner. 

For exhibition purposes I have to put an additional hanging cord on to allow the viewers eye to see the detail of the paintings.

A stash of completely finished works with their exhibition cords added.

The poster advertising Mrs H's Exhibition

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