Irish Arts Blog

dancing world

cliodhna
A submission to threadless getting the fabric treatment! I had fun with this one. I stiched the people up seperately and stuffed them and then stiched them down onto the backround fabric so they stand out. To make the people I patchworked strips of fabric together first and then embroidered the people on top of that and then made them into the dolls ready to get stuffed.

It was originally for a brief for democracy. So I took differant shade sof browns in a swirl and placed the people randomly on top. My reckoning was that if we were all treated equally and respected each other we could all be happy and dance all day!

Words in the corner, sky dancing, dreaming, singing, growing.
It feels good to get back on the sewing machine again!
x clio

Rain Rain GO Away

By Patrick Naughton

I can't count the number of times I have being soaked to the skin by our monsoon rains this summer (including taking this photo!!). I thought the tropics had a rainy season then the rest of the year is glorious sunshine...that's part of the deal isn't it?  They exchange a couple months of rain during the year for sunshine the rest. I think we have been short changed here. Martin King has some answering to do...after all those weather presenters control the weather...don't they?

Zopilotes

cliodhna

Zopilotes is spanish for Vulture and these guys are turkey vultures who live in the mountains of chihuahua. I was getting the train back from Chihuahua city (awesome train ride, goes through what is called the Barrancas del Cobre. In parts deeper and wider than the grand canyon in america) and just got a glimpse as we passed of all these vultures dining on a (very) dead cow. The image stuck with me and became this painting.
These birds are incredible common here. You can see six or seven of them at a time hovering in a circle over some distant valley. I wonder do they have a special 'somethings going to die' sense.