Saturday

Siamese Cats @ Banner Books, Ennistymon, Co. Clare


A selection of my greeting cards and two studies of Siamese Cats are now available at Banner Books, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.Banner Books, Ennistymon
 FB 
3 The Square, Ennistymon, Co Clare
Phone: 065 707 1372  Email: books@bannerbooks.ie


www.PetPersonalityPortraits.com

FaceBook Sheena Meagher Artist

Feeling very grateful for a fab two day stay in the Banner County, drinking in deep breaths of Atlantic air from Liscannor Bay, buying gorgeous comb honey from the Rock Shop in Liscannor, watching the wonderful Swan Lake Ballet at Glor in Ennis, eating  brunch at the Little Fox Cafe, Ennistymon, enjoying dinner with friends at the Town Hall, Ennis and a million reasons to go back for another visit soon.




Monday

Ghost stories....



As part of a series of views of Trinity College, sold as prints in the Old Library Shop I created a painting of one of the pair of wrought iron spiral stairs in the Long Room. One of the Trinity staff members obligingly walked down the stairs while I sketched and photographed, to help me give the painting a sense of scale 
I brought the material I had gathered to the house in Co. Clare, placed the large canvas in the studio, hanging it on the wall just beside the door.  I closed the window shutters, lit a candle to evoke the atmosphere and set to work.  Lucy PepR, the dog preferred to spend her time in the front room, keeping an eye on passers by on the prom.

A few days into painting I was happy with the stairs, the bookshelves and gleaming gold gilded tomes.  I raised my paintbrush to bring in the figure of a Librarian on the stairs when the kitchen door suddenly  BURST open.  I SCREAMED in fright.   
Lucy PepR,  screamed back in fright ((she had come in for a drink of water – her dish was directly under the painting) My brush did a wobble connecting with the canvas.

I calmed the poor dog and turned to the painting.  

There, standing on the Spiral stairs was a ghostly figure, not descending the stairs but calmly reaching over the handrail towards the shelves for a book.  The feeling of fright was so real and authentic I left it exactly as it appeared.  You can just make it out at top left , under the word 'Bibliotheca'.