Eskerrick asko Donostia !! (thank you San Sebastián) part one .......

eskerrick asko !
that is basque for thank you Donostia.
Donostia is the Basque name for their beautiful city (known more commonly as its Spanish name San Sebastián)
We are just back from a lovely break in this most exciting and beautiful of cities.
I feel moved and privledged to have been welcomed by these down to earth , passionate people, specially when I tried to speak euskara , with the help of a little dictionary we were given in a bar.
My memories are fading already as I type , I dont want to loose anything.
We swam,cycled on their wonderful city cycle paths,ate lovely pintxo (tapas),walked everywhere,enjoyed the warm air on our impoverished Irish skin :)

*1 how beautifully is this book wrapped !! I cant open it and show you the wonders inside it yet , I love looking at the wrapping.
*2 loved this image in our local bookshop window.
*3 hand written sign in the cutest little cake shop.
*4 so sad I could not afford this bathing hat it was 25 euros in a very chic chemist in the old city which although beautiful, was too touristy and overpriced to me.I prefered our area of Antigua , down town.
*5 this was Queen Marie -Christine s bathing house ! isnt it fantastic.

eskerrick asko Donostia !! part two .......

*1 at 9.30 am on sunday morning there they came ....the local band .
They played the most uplifting medieval sounding flutes and drum and we saw them everywhere around the locality until late in the evening.
*2 needlepoint sign of very upmarket childrens christening robe shop in the old part of the city .
*3 love this chagall-like music poster I saw yesterday whilst walking around the french town of Biarritz awaiting our flight.
home via Dublin.
*4 the 1912 funicular ride up to the top of mount igueldo (it was so quaint ...I loved doing this)
*5 amazing jigsaw shop ,this was on the wall outside

summer is still with us Yippeee ✷✷✷✷✷

me and zara on the headland of renvyle beach connemara =heaven (last week)
I appear to be having a little break for a while (not long)
lots of exciting news on my return .
I hope you are all well out there.....
♥✱✷

YaY !! an artist collaboration between cendrine rovini and jane o'sullivan

drawing from the heart (the girl with birds for her feet)
jane o sullivan
La fille aux pieds d'oiseaux
cendrine rovini
le ruban(forgive)
jane o sullivan
le ruban
cendrine rovini
the life and times of plantula
jane o sullivan
Drawings from our Heart
jane o sullivan
cendrine rovini
I am so excited about this collaboration !
Please find here my first 5 drawings with the drawing that inspired me by cendrine directly underneath .
This post is in two parts and is in order of the start which was early june.
I would like to thank cendrine for her inspiration and her sensitivity towards my work .
Viva drawings from our heart !♥♥
cendrines flickr
cendrines portfolio

part two**drawings from our heart ( a collaboration with cendrine rovini)

PART ONE


plantula
cendrine rovini
ceinte boiseé
jane o sullivan
ceinte boiseé
cendrine rovini
the flower nest of les recueillies
jane o sullivan
les recueillies
cendrine rovini

In early june , I suggested a project with an artist I admire greatly cendrine rovini
drawings from our heart
I am constantly fascinated by her work and it always provokes a strong reaction within me .
I wanted to make some drawings as a response to cendrines work.
I feel our collaboration is like a meditation, a friend, a dialogue,satellite, a muse on each others work.
This has influenced my work and made me draw in a different way.
It also importantly created some work that is pro-active and artist generated.
We are continuing our collaboration and will post up a new series when we have it made.
I am posting my drawing that I made in response to cendrines drawing , which you can see directly underneath it.
Please go directly to cendrines blog hortus noctis where you will see her meditations on my drawings.
We welcome any feedback on drawings from our heart

new work in progress

this drawing above is a detail of a secret project that we will announce quite soon :D


not too much to report , but I am keeping going with some new drawings , its a good time of year to see a lot of people you wouldnt normally see.
Summer is always busy , I prefer the quieter times and have to remember that I am not an Island (challenging)

fragile.............me, my work, my life = the world I guess:)

ink on tissue
this drawing is in my little book the innerworld outside of which there are only 10 of the 50 left

the blue house
housepaint on paper
I did this in college and my fave teacher liked it......then so did I !

um well this is a pheaseant embroidery obviously (love it and its blue like the painting above)

this is a detail from my show which is on at the moment in the boyle arts festival.
The trunk was my husbands aunts , in which all her belongings were carried when she travelled to america in the 1940.s
f.r.a.g.i.l.e
oh I am a silly , just realized that I have to check and allow comments now since I had to do that moderation thing due to lots of long lost chinese friends , if only they wrote to me in english.
There I was feeling a little sad , my dear parents just left for their flight home after a lovely event filled visit .
My mother staking up my delicate poppies to a twig , tying them all on by hand with green sewing thread.....sigh .
I am showing off some older work that has remained unseen till now and I will put it all on flickr .
I hope you are all well out there in my outerworld inside x

I have updated my hand drawing page and you can go to it directly here :D

a song for edith goes on tour !

I installed my work on wednesday in the showroom of a lovely historic working stonemasons yard.
Feelystone, have generously opened up their premises for the Boyle Arts Festival
There are five sculptors working alongside the stonemasons....all very exciting.
I will be present next thursday from 10 am till 4pm when I look after the group show, if you can make it :)

you can view carpaccio magazine here,my piece is towards the end next to some lovely dreamy trees :)

Open publication - Free publishing - More photography

I am in a group show this friday with my ex -degree class from a year ago.
The exhibition is titled Touch and is part of the Boyle Arts Festival a fairly lively event indeed.
I am thrilled to have the chance to exhibit and would like to thank both Veronica and Claire for their initiation of this group show .
We will be having an exhibition at Feelystone Boyle Co.Roscommon for those who maybe able to attend .It will be open from 10-4pm daily until friday the 30th July .The opening is at 7pm this friday and just in case anyone is interested I have everything under control really I do :)
I will show a small selection from my ongoing body of work A Song For Edith.Her life and re-imagining it has certainly touched my spirit in some way.

light heat power (what more do you need )

Hello friends ......
I have been away a little while with my family and we had fun:)
My drawing has been accepted by the lovely carpaccio magazine
Thank you to cendrine as it was her work with them that alerted me to the publication (once again thank you dear for the inspiration- wation ♥♥)

*arklow pigeon club sign , love this handmade sign and the thoughts of the pigeon fanciers meeting here
*dear angelas cuttings that she gave me to bring back home west (the child of prague is traditionally put outside here for fine weather , I thought he\she may help my little cuttinglings )
*a cute little shoe repair shop in Arklow which has been there for years.The individualness of the shopfront (love it !)
*detail of shoe repair shop window which was crammed with shoe ornaments etc
*light heat power.....what more can I say !
this old shop front was in the amazingly beautiful city of Kilkenny.

Thank you maria and Emma of Carpaccio magazine.

fennecs and foxgloves

I got some drawings resolved today and fitted in a super long cycle,it was a lovely sunny morning even though it looks a bit overcast in the photograph , the light was amazing :)
We are going away for a little break on sunday and I am looking forward to it.
I found a lovely old book from the 1940's called the bear and his relations of which this above photo is from .
They are fennecs , the worlds smallest foxes ! (love 'em)

hand drawing is the bomb !

delighted to have been chosen to join this lovely newish contemporary drawing blog hand drawing
they are on facebook too , which I am not but I am on the drawing page along with some seriously smokin' artists whom I am very happy to share space with :)
So much time is spent alone in this mad job that it is truelly exciting to be part of something bigger than me even if its virtual ...its still real ...really !
um cant quite believe how exciting I found the work of Aleksandra Waliszewska she makes me feel like a silly kitten !
I found her work through the amazing new to me drawing magazine blog the kingdom (which I found via my new B.F.F'S hand drawings links)
If you ♡ drawing you best get your ass over there quick , you are in for a treat :)

the moon is full

I would have loved a job 100 years ago drawing the designs for plates like these :)

the moon is full ........

...and I am tired but glad .
Glad to know there are so many good people in my world , the world.
Glad to know that honeysuckle is here, glad to know that I can.
Thank you to all those who do and can....keep on going ,we need you .
B.T.W ...have you seen lauras drawing blog little gentle ?
Its a fairly new project and I love it :)

out takes have me mesmerised and enchanted

......oh oh oh oh
I am taking a break from the i.n.s.a.n.e. world that is making films (albeit very humble home made ones)
I made a small film to show with my degree show last year and I was hooked.
I felt that it added another dimension to my work .
So I am doing it again with all my years of collected film footage .
It is THE most exciting/frustrating medium.
I am in the slow slow process of assembling my a song for edith holden film to be part of my almost ready for the world solo show (which as we speak of most re-assuringly nobody seems to want......yet )
Here are some fuzzy odd bits , bits I lost , deleted , re-found and re-fell in love with .
Please say some special words to the universe for me , that I may get edith out into the open at sometime , in this life :)

I love this blog and look at this film (oh so wow !)