I have had so much fun this weekend! I was not expecting to enjoy myself so much.

First of all nick and myself went to Tommy Tiernan in the hall in Borris Saturday night. I laughed till I cried, it was a tonic.

Then Sunday came the event I was not really looking forward to. I thought it was going to be one of those 'use an artist event'!

The very persuasive Cornelia McCarthy roped me in as to be the artist in an event in The chapel in Borris house for the festival. An Aussie composer/musician, formerly of a blast from the past band 'midnight oil' who now makes guitar orchestra music, wanted artist/s to paint to his music basically. He had done it a few times, once in Sydney Opera house! However space and time made me think we would be better doing something more organic and Jim was keen on a piece by Delaunay so this was what we worked from. I had three helpers, Anna, Trish and Sharon from the killoughternan art group. Cornelia primed the board. We got into the venue with half an hour to go so I drew circles in the style of Delaunay, tied the colours into the music titles…the theory behind the work is the fact that some people see colours when they hear music. Jim' s pieces were titled different colours so we worked on those colours depending on the title of the tune!

Initially there was some hesitation but personally I loved it. I can see some amazing possibilities to doing it again, so any musicians want to collaborate…..call me!

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