TWO NEW PAINTINGS

Restrictions are to be eased from today Tuesday 5th, in a phased way. This means most of us can get a bit more exercise and perhaps meet a few friends with appropriate social distancing. I, like most other people, have been spending time at home and close by.  I’m so looking forward to seeing a bit more of my local world. It will be a long time before our normal lifestyles can be restored.

Meantime I have been enjoying the nice weather in the garden, finding photo subjects in and around the garden and getting on with some paintings.

The paintings are coming along slowly. Oil paintings always take some time for me to complete because they usually take me several stages and involves drying time in between. It also requires me to not procrastinate too much.

These two oil paintings recently completed were inspired by the stormy views seen from Cosán na nEighe, a path over the cliffs from Clogher Beach, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, in the South West of Ireland.

In the picture below are Inis Tiaracht on the left of the horizon, and Inis Tuaisceart (The Sleeping Giant) on the right. These are both Islands of the Blasket Islands group.

Hopefully, more will be completed soon.

Thanks for taking a look. Stay well!

https://www.helene-brennan.com/c863-new-paintings-2018—2020

SEASCAPES

It finally happened! A burst of creativity recently overcame me and I have produced several new oil paintings. Here they are. Some of them might be subject to some small changes, or I may just leave them be. I’ll think about it.

Average size 27 x 21 inches.

From Clogher Beach, with The Sleeping Giant (Inis Tuaisceart) in the background

Near Clogher Beach, on the Cuas na nEighe path.

Blasket Islands from Béal Átha, Dún Chaoin.

From Clogher Beach

From Inch Beach.

Inch Beach

From Clogher Beach, with view of Sleeping Giant.

I was once accused of painting too many sea pictures – but I live on a peninsula. One can’t avoid being seduced by the wonderful power of the ocean and it’s ever changing colours, movement and moods. If seascapes are your thing, please take a look this tag on my website:

http://www.helene-brennan.com/tag/seascape+paintings

Also, for more stormy weather seascapes take a look at this earlier blog post:

https://helenebrennan.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/stormy-weather-in-kerry/

 

 

BLASKET EVENING

The warm colors of evening sun on the ruins of Great Blasket Island. The island’s beautiful beach lies behind.

More paintings of the Blasket Islands on my website:

http://helene-brennan.com/c62-blasket-islands-paintings

Blasket Sunset

What a great privilege it was to sit and observe the beautiful colors of the late evening as the sun sets over the Islands of Great Blasket and Beginish.

More paintings of the Blasket Islands on my website:

www.helene-brennan.com/c62-blasket-islands-paintings

Photos of the islands can be seen at: www.helene-brennan.com/c53-blasket islands-photogtaphs

STORMY WEATHER PAINTINGS FROM KERRY

Stormy Weather Paintings from Kerry, Ireland

The beautiful Dingle Peninsula has many faces, many weathers and colours. Stormy wind, a recent visitor, is no stranger in these parts, battering, bashing and blustery, so powerful, driving, bitter and biting that it can take your breath away; your face may be lashed with intensely stinging sand or hailstones; you may battle to stand up, to move forward may require all your strength and determination. You may wish you’d stayed at home.

A close companion of the wind is the rain – also a frequent visitor. We see a lot of it in Ireland – seemingly interminable rain –  bucketing, cutting, crashing, lashing rain. We also get ‘soft’ rain –  exasperating, saturating, sprinkling, dribbling drizzle. We get so many different kinds of rain that the Irish language (Gaelic) has as many words for it as the Inuit people have for snow (about 50, I believe).

Shown here are some paintings I have created to express the extreme weather that is our familiar,  though generally uninvited guest.

See my Dingle Peninsula paintings on my website:
http://helene-brennan.com/c15-dingle-peninsula-paintings/