INCOGNITO 2018 and "A Grand Stretch in the Evenings "

As January closes and we approach the official first day of Spring I share some old and new images of Winter  - not over yet by a long shot - winter that is -but there is a peceptable "stretch in the evenings "  

Snow at the Studio from 2010 

Studio in Snow from the lane 

and January 2018 

      A walk on the lane -Snow on Lugnacoille                   

A few beech leaves in the otherwise bare hedges

 Outside he back door in the flower beds and under the shrubs, snowdrops are doing their lovely sweet best to cheer us all up ! 

I have not forgotten the purple and yellow croci about to flower  !

Winter Sunsets are spectacular - especialy when the skies are clear 

A little watercolour -my recent painting of snowdrops available here Snowdrops in a Jug on etsy 

I have been invited to take part in the 2018  "Incognito" exhibition in the Solomen Gallery Dublin 2 from 4th to 8th April so I have donated 3 postcard-size watercolours as requested in aid of the Jack and Jill foundation - As the title suggests - all works are being sold anonymously. 
 INCOGNITO is Ireland's largest single-gallery public art exhibition, with 1500 postcard-size artworks available. Each of these original art pieces will be sold to the public to buy on a first-come-first-served basis for €50 – the twist is that no one will know the identity of the artist until after they buy ..some work valued at many times the sale price
They go online to be viewed at the beginning of March and will be on display at the Solomon Gallery in Dublin 4^th & 5^th April before they go on sale 6^th-8^th April, 
Every single euro from the sale of these works will go to Jack & Jill to help nurse brain damaged children across the length and breadth of Ireland ..

Some of the other Artists submitting their work for INCOGNITO 2018 include:

Martin Gale,  Tracey Emin,  Richard Gorman, Rhona Byrne, Mo Kelly, Peter Curling, Anne Marie O’Brien, John Kelly, Mick O’Dea, Anthony Lyttle, Ed Miliano, Dede Gold, David Crone, Olivia Golden, David Begley, Nicky Hooper

https://www.jackandjill.ie/events/incognito-2018

My next blog will have details of my 2018 painting holiday in Tuscany in May this year!