Author: Cecilia

I am back in a frosty Galway after spending the Christmas in Sweden. This weekend selecting and uploading footage from DV tapes onto my Mac for the video I’m making. It’s colder than usual in Ireland at the moment, but I suppose I don’t suffer from the cold the same way as the Irish do […]

The opening of the “10×10” show in the White Room Gallery was on last night. The turn out was great and I really enjoyed it! The fact that we sold a lot of work made it even better! Thanks to everyone who came to the opening and thanks to Anna who curated the show and […]

Yesterday I completed the 10th and last painting for the 10×10 show. I’m really happy to have them all done, especially since I was quite pressed for time. I don’t think I’ve ever been as productive in such a short space of time before! The weather is miserable as you would expect in November, but […]

I am almost finished with painting no. 8 for the “10×10” show now. I have felt so inspired lately it’s a joy being in the studio. I even feel a bit restless when I don’t paint. I even dream about gesso boards, but it’s not a bad thing. I was at the Tulca – Season […]

The days are getting darker and winter will soon be upon us. I bought a little oil radiator for the studio a couple of days ago, so now I can keep myself warm on all those cold and rainy days ahead. I have completed five of the ten paintings so far, so things are going […]

Just over a week has passed. For me it was quite a busy one, and I spent most of it in the studio. Between Sunday the 18th and Saturday the 24th I managed to complete 4 paintings. Pretty good going I have to say, given that they were very time consuming and detailed. I went […]

I’ve arranged my postcards, collected photos, fliers, map etc. from the Berlin trip on the studio wall. Things that I like and that will act as inspiration. The photos I took myself so far only exist in digital form. The process of preparing the gesso boards for painting. It sure takes time, as my fellow […]

While I was in Berlin I got asked by the White Room Gallery in Galway to exhibit in a group show in December called “10×10”. The idea is that 10 artists will create 10 pictures each, which are 10×10 inches in size and will cost €100 a piece. I was delighted with the proposal since […]

Do I need to tell you what I think about Berlin or could you figure that one out for yourselves? Berlin is Amazing. The polaroids could tell you that. I got a young artists’ training award from Liljesonska Stiftelsen in Sweden in May and I used the money to go to Berlin for almost three […]

So, this is my new blogging solution. The old blog I had on my site was never really a blog in the true sense of the word since it didn’t allow for comments etc. But now I’ve thrown myself into the hands of the WordPress platform and am currently exploring what it can do for […]