Talking Squares

Capel Street is one of my favourite streets in Dublin. When I would take visitors there on my walking tours they would ask me why I brought them to a street with a load of phones and tools. Seeing that as a good enough reason to visit any street I never answered.

Capel Street Bridge, as it tends to be known - which seems a little unfair on Parliament Street - is so unlike the rest of Dublin's bridges, notwithstanding the recent new bridges and some paint jobs. A few years back I did a little study with inks and acrylics of this very scene - intended for a painting I haven't got to yet. And down in unfinished paintings I have one of those maddeningly unenlargeable thumbnails of another Grattan Bridge Painting with the beautiful Sunlight Chambers in the background - if you have your magnifying glass handy. The bottom line though is: Hey, we're talking seahorses!

Anyway the plan - I'm a great man for plans - is to actually paint this scene finally and properly, and again give special attention to the domes either side of the Liffey. Do you know which ones I'm talking of? Don't phone, it's just for fun.

Perhaps we'll go to Colorado tomorrow? Artistically speaking.