Posts Tagged ‘birds’
Seagull Island with stripes and Plovers
May 21, 2018
Seagull Island, stripes and Plovers Late Spring is when Seagull Island, a barren stony finger of rock, resurfaces and the Plovers make a flying visit…A new plate in progress, A two plate print to add an extra stripe and texture
2018 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birds, calm, carborundum, drypoint, lake, light, lough mask, mountains, plate, plovers, process, reflection, seagulls, silenceComments (0)
Spring Snow, the Beast from the East
March 7, 2018
Lough Mask got a whisker brush from The Beast From the East, no great biting storm Emma or fierce snow storms. But it did get very cold and these last couple of days of tail end melting give modest bits of excitement….even if we didnt get within a snowball of a snowman. BooHiss!
2018 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph, photography | Tags: birds, branches, colour, ice, lake, lichen, lough mask, moss, mountains, robin, scrub, silence, sleet, snow, spring, willow, winterComments (2)
Fertilisation: my guess…
June 22, 2017
Those little egg cups are lined with silt, pooled with water and colonised by algae – the gulls and cormorants splash great dollops, hare and deer sprinkle a few pellets, the wind desiccates and whips up a concoction then off it goes…!
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: birds, ferlilisation, fertilization, fishbones, flood, grasses, lake, limestone, lough mask, manure, rain, renewal, rocks, scrub, sedum, seed, shellfish, stonecrop, wildflowerComments (2)
Spring Lake
May 4, 2017
Lough Mask is sinking back slowly leaving a creamy-grey sediment on seemingly barren rock. The summer shoreline has been under lake water for months. By March it started to reappear, then drowned a second time under inevitable Spring rains. The levels have dropped back in April and the new profile is taking shape. No great […]
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: birds, flood, green, lake, limestone, limestone pavement, lough mask, mist, mountains, rain, seagulls, spring, wetComments (0)
Spring turn, wet and windy
February 27, 2017
Everything is wet and sideways with rain and wind at the turn of Spring. After the mild, dryish December-January, February feels like winter at last!
2017 | Blog PHOTOS | Media: photograph | Tags: birds, briar, colour, hawthorn, hedgerow, light, rain, scrub, silence, spring, trees, wet, wildflowerComments (4)
Plovers on the Rocks
September 27, 2016
A band of Plovers (well, a congregation, correctly) sitting in a cave.. ok, standing on the near shore rocks, looking out into a heavy mist muffling Lough Mask. The key to this large 90cm x 60cm Plover plate will be printing a magnificent misty sky. I haven’t discovered how to print a magnificent misty sky..but […]
2016 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birds, carborundum, drypoint, lake, light, lough mask, mist, plate, plovers, process, reflection, rocks, silenceComments (1)
A scatter of Plovers over the Mask, new plate
July 31, 2015
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2015 | In progress PRINT WORK | Media: printmaking | Tags: aluminium, birds, carborundum, drypoint, lake, limestone, lough mask, plate, plovers, processComments (0)
