MEDITATION IN GREEN, TURQUOISE AND GOLD.

MAY FULL MOON, 7TH 2020

Light sparkling on water;  a painting of the full moon on Annaghmakerrig Lake, and a photo of light defracted into all the colours of the rainbow on Silver Strand like petals.

Full moon in May is the planting moon, the flower moon. 

Normal People, Trinity College Dublin in this very different month of May

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Watching Normal People, adapted from the novel by Irish author Sally Rooney

and the scenes in Trinity College this evening I wonder what college is like under the almost full moon tonight?  Have the corridors,  lecture theatres, libraries, squares, the campus playing fields ever been so empty of people for such a long period?   Or are the ghosts of Trinity folk past roaming the grounds with the Trinity Fox  and occupying seats vacated by the living?  The paintings are from the series I painted of college and produced as giclee prints featuring this oasis within Dublin city.  

ALL IN THE BEAUTIFUL MONTH OF MAY

One of my first ever animal portraits of my own first dog; a golden cocker spaniel with her constant companion Random.  Random was named after the Random Inn pub in Naas where she lived.  When she discovered our house and garden she used to come for a social visit and a few hours sleep in one of the dogs beds.  Her owner was retiring from the Inn and asked my mother if the dog -known to her as Towser, could stay with us .  Of course we were delighted.  Random lived with us from then on, but returned to the pub for her dinner every day - the food was more to her taste.  She took Sheeba, the cocker spaniel under her wing and the pair slept entwined , like the eternity symbol except in black and gold rather than black and white.  
Sheeba was a wild spirit, a tree climber, loved chasing gulls across the rocks at Lahinch and her show name was Lucia of the Maybush, being born on May 1st.  The year I brought her to the Cocker Show in Dublin she won hands down, the judges delighting in her happy friendly nature.