Of course it would be remiss of me to plug a book without giving Ireland’s top nikkid-in-hotel-corridor caricaturist Niall O’Loughlin a mention for his Characters of the Turf. It features caricatures of some of the biggest names in Irish horseracing, and Niall’s watercolours are as beautifully rendered as they are funny. Each is accompanied by … Read more
Got my signed copy of Mister Amperduke by Bob Byrne in the post today. Thanks Bob. I’ve just read the first chapter, although I don’t think read is quite the right word. There is no narrative text in the whole book. Bob has diligently stuck to using a graphic lexicon, which means it’ll travel well! … Read more
It’s not just you Irish who are upset about the whole Partition thing…
liberate an animal!
If you’re near Kenny’s Gallery in Galway in the next few weeks check out Katarzyna Gajewska‘s work, currently on show. She has a mastery of capturing a very virile human form in a minimal amount of very energetic strokes. The rapidity of her mark-making, coupled with the fact she works with her bare hands, will … Read more
filtering pearls from the pooh!