A #painting from a couple of years ago. "Wellington Quay, East" came out of my love of Dublin's quays and how much time I spend in town looking across the Liffey. For those of you unfamiliar with Ireland's capital city, the Ha'penny Bridge is just off picture to the left and the Millennium Bridge (also pedestrian) is off picture to the right. #MastoArt #MastoDaoine

A #painting for youse to have a look at. "Poulnabrone I". Because I like big stones. This was the first of several times I painted Ireland's iconic portal tomb in County Clare's Burren. It used to hang in the US and in Australia but now hangs in a good home in County Derry. #art #StandingStoneSunday

"Doolough Boats" - a west or Ireland #painting from earlier this year while I try to finish paintings before the year ends. If you’re on the road from Killary Harbour up to Clew Bay, you’ll go through the valley of Delphi and then you hit Doolough. If you're on a bicycle you'll stop, enjoy the iconic view as you approach the jetty, then stop again to look back. It might look something like this. #MastoDaoine #MastoArt

Another #painting so. I painted "Pier Fishing" last year prompted by all the times at sunrise I've gone to a pier and some young woman or young man is there before me owning the world and its oceans. I like to watch. While this was Portrush and that's Donegal yonder, I was thinking of a lot of piers, and I was thinking of sunsets as well as sunrises. #MastoDaoine

Another of my new Irish #paintings. "Kylemore" came out of a day I'd been cycling around the stunning Twelve Bens of north Connemara as the bike and I kept stopping to enjoy the views of the lake as the sun did what the sun does of an evening. The painting sold last month and has now gone to its new home. #MastoDaoine

A #painting. "Dublin Bay Chimneys" is one of the new ones that sold earlier this month. Not the first time I've painted the Poolbeg chimneys. Some people have no time for the chimneys, because they're disused and hardly unique, and they think we should celebrate other things. I don’t care. For a lot of people seeing the chimneys when arriving into Dublin port or Dublin airport, means simply one thing – home. That word home, with all its flaws and its joys, it means you’re home. So I paint them.

"Wicklow Sunrise" One of the new paintings.
Once upon a time I sat up all night in Wicklow town and watched the sun rise over the Irish Sea. You don’t really need any more of a reason than that for why I painted this. Given the nature of towns though, it is rather similar to what sunrises look like in other places that are beside a large body of water. A sunrise makes me feel alive, and full of hope for the day ahead. #MastoDaoine #painting

An Irish #painting for you to look at. "North Mayo Coast" was finished last summer. Specifically it's a scene up by Downpatrick Head but, because I like almost going to places, this is the view in the opposite direction to the sea stack of Dún Briste. #MastoDaoine

A #painting I did back in the summer of 2010. I painted Dublin's "Loopline Bridge" mostly because I loved the cylindrical piers, or I did when they were left in their plain black and orange rather than covered in graffiti which they mostly are in recent years. Also because it's the view I always see when I realise I'm not going to make it to Tara Street Station to catch my DART. #MastoDaoine

"Sneem II" is County Kerry painting I painted earlier this year. Well, I finished it earlier this year - I started it way back in 2004 and worked on it in each of all those years since. It's a beautiful place in a beautiful setting and I always wanted to capture my first impressions of that world. It sold immediately upon completion and now hangs in the southwest of Ireland.
Prints are available: https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-print/Sneem-II-County-Kerry-Ireland-by-eolai/165950045.1G4ZT
#MastoDaoine #Ireland #painting