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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Painting-in-Progress: Burren Dolmen
It all comes down to courage. It's fine seeing the bands of colour clearly, or the areas of contrast - where I especially tend to dwell on the dark side - but the painting works best with not so much what is required as with what is not required.The Burren in County Clare is, as any biologist will tell us, a very special place. That probably didn't come across in my Burren Tower painting, nor was it even meant do when depicting Poulnabrone Dolmen at night, but this time it is.
Dolmens are places to fall in love at, the ultimate playground for kids, tributes to nature, and markings for the dead. They're like those wonderful huge old trees, except they're not living, or at least they're not going to die; they're there basically, present, and real, have been for a long time and will be long after we've stopped thinking of each other. Assuming we do.
And Here's The Stuff I Wrote Earlier:
