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accessible art, and plain english

by julie

posted January 7, 2010

I believe that art is for everyone, not just the people who can talk about it in flowery language they learned at college. It’s disappointing when you try to dig around for some new discussion, and you barely get a few sentences into any given article/post/artist statement without your eyes glazing over. The topics are […]

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first footers

by julie

posted January 5, 2010

Well, not quite, because they weren’t actually visiting us – but it was new year’s day. For anyone not familiar with this scottish tradition, it’s the first people to visit you after the bells on hogmanay, and traditionally they would bring a lump of coal. And a bottle of something alcoholic. It was still in […]

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a visit from the Wintersmith

by julie

posted January 5, 2010

Well, things are still very icy round here. Took my life in my own hands this morning, walking to work in heels!

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winter jewels

by julie

posted January 4, 2010

Think this is probably my favourite shot from our wee photowalk at the bots on the 2nd. I love the place on a normal day, but with snow and ice and sunshine… wow.

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welcoming in the new year

by julie

posted January 2, 2010

Um yes so I already posted one from today. But this is from yesterday, when we ventured out to IMMA in the snow since it’s right next door. I was like a very excited child, to see all the lovely stuff covered in snow. Simple things… ;)

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once in a blue moon

by julie

posted January 2, 2010

Well, once during my time in dublin so far anyway, I’ve made it up to the bots on a lovely sunny day when everything was still covered in the new year’s eve snow. Absolutely magical, and also great to catch up with some photography friends and make new ones, too :)

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little calendar

by julie

posted December 31, 2009

Sometime in October I put together a little calendar, which I designed to fit into little zipdisk cases (remember zipdisks?!) but they can be displayed in lots of different ways – like with tiny pegs on string :) Anyway I never quite got round to doing the whole craft fair thing, but I still have […]

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