Pin-Board Diary

The "Project Diary" that I created for this website took, as its background, a cork pin-board. At the time it only had a virtual existence. But life imitates art, and Real can follow Virtual, so now I have my own pin-board project diary.



Here it is!

Each of the little folded pieces of paper has a tiny image of one of the projects on which I am currently working.

I try to do them in as many diferent media as possible ( a selection of which is shown at the top of this page) and I move them up or down the board to indicate priorities. I can open each one to add memos, such as notes on studies or sketches that need doing next.

The complete board, with one of my sketch-books. Voila!

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Stone Mad

I went down to the beach today, very early in the morning, to steal stones.




I put them in my rucksack, till I could hardly lift it, and brought them back to the studio



There are 200, that's two for every painting in the gallery.

There are two, because one stands for a painting, and the other one stands for a person, looking at it. They therefore express the relationship between picture and viewer. A painting does not exist, unless someone is looking at it.

I arranged the stones around the gallery. You could say, I left no stone unturned.

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Shelf Life

My studio was always overcrowded. Because I wanted to display as many pictures as possible, there was little room for painting.

But not anymore.

There are still some paintings on some of the wall-space, but the work-shop side of things has taken centre-stage.

There are three bays, drawing media to the left, painting to the right, and in the middle, a work-space.

The shelves are full of pots, pencils, pads, paint, paint-brushes, pallette knives - perfect!

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Exhibiting in the Family Resource Centre, Ballyduff

We are extremely fortunate in Ballyduff because we have a beautiful social centre just a few yards down the road from where we live. I always like to hang a few paintings there.

This is the cafe, where everyone drops in for a chat. It is an opportunity to mix art with conversation.

This is the back room where the kids meet to play computer games, and it is good to use it for an art space as well.

Art and games have a lot in common. They both take place in rectangles

The outside demonstrates how what used to be a shop has been converted to a place where people meet. Art in the community is at the heart of its purpose.

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Open Space

It is 2010. The seagull who looks after the gallery has declared that it is too cluttered. Much of the scenerey has been consigned to the garden (Watch out seagull - you might be next!) The flavour of the month is de-clutter and make space.



These paintings needed something to stand on, so I constructed virtual lobster pots (you have to use your imagination a little bit).

Now the paintings are all around the room

and there is nothing

(well. almost nothing - just a bit of sunshine)

in the middle


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Piling up

Notices which I had once made to go outside the house on a post were brought in to the gallery


and placed on the beach.


Shelves to hold stacks of paintings were modelled on the stands erected for milk churns when these used to be collected from farms by the creamery lorries.


The blackboard was a copy of the notices that "farm shops" display to advertise bags of potatoes and other produce on sale. It advertised my paintings in the same way.


Small paintings were on sale as if they were vegetables in a country market.
The gallery is stuffed with paintings, in stacks everywhere. As in this photo, they were at one time in boxes of all different sizes.


Sometimes the studio looked cluttered


because it was


until one day I decided to have a major clear-out


A space had to be made in the centre of the room.

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Exhibitions in the "Coast Road" Gallery

There are always some of my paintings hanging in the "Coast Road" gallery, which is the community art-space which I manage in the Family Resource Centre just down the road from where I live in Ballyduff.

It is a lovely space, which used to be a shop.

I organise an exhibition each month, but if there is a bit of spare space, I always find room for a few of my pictures.


Exhibiting in the back room of the "Family Resource Centre", just down the road from where I live, is particularly exciting, as I must share the space with computers and games machines.


I like this. It seems to be making some kind of a statement about the relationship between art and play, or maybe modern technology and a traditional art form.


but I haven't figured out what yet.


I particularly love this juxtaposition.

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