Years end


2014 is drawing to a close. For myself it has been a year if ups and downs, still what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Let me wish you all a peaceful and happy Christmas. May 2015 bring you the things you need, may you have enough and have the time to follow your passion.
Ian Dury and the Blockheads
Dublin
1978?
My love affair with alternative Ways of thinking must have started around the time I took this photo, playing with no flash, light, speed and stuff. Printed in the dark room in George's quay with the help of Anthony Hobbs.

I have been watching a very interesting series on Sky called the Legacy, it deals with the art market and peoples loves, the madness of the 'market' is shown beautifully in it.

I will never be a business woman. I am an artist, a free thinker. I not only have no interest in the market, I just want to live my life. Money is for getting the lifestyle we wish. I create, to be creative, not to sell. I suppose if I was selling a lot I would get caught up the madness of it, the auld ego would be massaged and I would suddenly be drawn into it all. Unfortunately people with money want to own things, to make themselves feel clever.

I feel good when I ride my horse along a country lane, when she is kind to me and nature is there to be appreciated. This does not require large sums of money actually. I just need a rich patron to enable me to do this…..ha ha! In return they can have all my work!

Of course this is an artists dream, the reality is not that bad…..I sold all my Christmas cards so next year……world domination :P

 

So to all of you who bought my cards thank you and I will have even nicer ones next year….if I am still doing it…….

So off we go and have some quiet time.

 

 

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