RDH: September 2025

04/09/25

Jen Alexander in Threshold

08/09/25

VAI Get Together at TU Dublin

09/09/25

Visit to ‘Faigh Amach’ at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.

Kathy Tynan

Emily Waszak

Ella Bertilsson

10/09/25

Painting off to Arcade Studios for a group show.

14/09/25

Session two of ‘Better, Worse or about the Same’. Freaking me out a little that it’s where it is after just two studio days.

Still not used to recording either - in some ways it is a distraction and feels a little unnatural. In others, it focuses the need to get paint down which is no bad thing.

20/09/25

Looking at ‘BWoratS’ - it’s all but there. Setting it aside for now and going to have a first session of the small kiss piece.

22/09/25

Bunged.

27/09/25

Session two on ‘kiss’. Good call to darken the background.

28/09/25

2024 in Pictures

JANUARY

Niamh McCann at the MAC, Belfast

Strike Captain Study

'Three in One' drawing - 3 Cadets

First completed painting of the year - 'Restraint Study'

Blizzard-esque

Sinead McKeever in QSS

FEBRUARY

Help in the office

New addition to the Family - Malcolm John Kielt

Golden Thread in Threshold

Ciarraí MacCormac in Catalyst Arts

Overturned Roots

Only saving grace of a lost work

'Upstanding'

MARCH

Vault

DLB

VOID in Derry

A crack in Dublin

Fun in the tub!

APRIL

Éabha Campbell in Catalyst

Large and small works on the go

Sketchings - 'on the tube'

Vagabond Reviews in the LAB Gallery, Dublin

Down the Hill

Mother Tongue in the MAC

MAY

Hit the North, Royal Avenue

FGB in Vault

Northern Lights

Raindrops incorporated

Rally Day

Progress - only two will survive

Deirdre O'Mahony in the Douglas Hyde

JUNE

Steps forward and backward

Cameron Stewart in Arcade Studios

Eslam Abd El Salam, Phillip McCrilly, Tara McGinn & Sorcha McNamara - Catalyst Arts

Matthias Oostrik - Belfast Photo Festival

Lough Views

ArtsFest Opening - ~ArtsForAll

'Four Years On' finished

JULY

Early stages

'Centra Bag' Pen on Paper

Apprentice

DIY holiday work

North Coast Sunset

AUGUST

Stoic snap in the studio

Caravaggio at the Ulster Museum

Golden Thread Re-Opening

'Turn to Page 5' detail

more works on the go

SEPTEMBER

The Weight of Light: Conor McFeely and Pascale Steven at the MAC

1,2,3

Late Night Art East - Creative Exchange

QSS at 40 opening

Studio shot

OCTOBER

Royale Arcade show at Arcade Studios

Laura Nelson at Vault Studios

'Restraint Study' in situ at Royal Ulster Academy show in Ulster Museum

PS2 Tour

Blowing Up

NOVEMBER

Office wall

'I see his blood upon the rose' show at the MAC

VAI's Get Together at IMMA, Dublin

Brian Maguire at Hugh Lane Gallery

DECEMBER

An experiment with moss

Christmas Letters

Detail of work all but complete - will be part of group show in new year

RDH: NOVEMBER 2024

01/11/24

Pretty sure this is Dad in the Vectra circa 2000.

02/11/24

H, F & M.

…taking a back seat.

04/11/24

Escalation

05/11/24

Late night home.

06/11/24

The fun never stops!

07/11/24

Collected. No late night art for me this month. Exhaustion has taken over.

08/11/24

Proposal started. Excited to stretch and prime canvas tomorrow! Nerd Alert!

In the chaos of the past few weeks, I forgot to note that I’ve had a lovely delivery of a 10m roll of canvas and primer.

09/11/24

Didn’t realise I had so much primer! Two canvases, stretched and primed with one coat (plus one bloodied thumb).

Sketchbook time - this definitely needs time allotted to…

… came back to finish off the two drawings started earlier on. It can be done - just needs some discipline and manoeuvring.

10/11/24

‘Natural Alignments’

GET OUT THERE!

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12/11/24

Paola Bernardelli

Ted Pim

Darren Murray

MAC Show - beautiful and just a joy to immerse yoursself in. Wonderful homage.

Weird seeing D.M.’s paintings again after so long. Remember getting my graduation photos from NWRC in front of them.

17/11/24

Can’t believe I’ve lost track of RD. First time ever in fourteen plus years and quite annoyed at myself.

ADAPT - MOVE ON - WORK

Primed canvases with second coat. In terms of C’s submission, materials gathering and experimentation ongoing.

18/11/24

Dublin - Day 1. Lights out in middle of set up.

19/11/24

GTG a great success. Good night had by all.

20/11/24

Dublin Day 3. Brian Maguire in the Hugh Lane. Glorious large scale works and great to see some old favourites I first saw in VOID a few years ago.

Mariechen Danz at the Project Arts Centre - Shadows and Spines.

Douglas Hyde Gallery - ‘LAND’ group show. Beautiful video work from Pinar Öğrenci in situ - videos on display will change to change throughout the run. Tried to get into another space - was not allowed with suitcase in tow.

Lastly the LAB before the bus home. Vanessa Daws’ show inspired by endurance swimming pioneer Mercedes Gleitze. Great show but still filled me with anxiety looking at open water.

Home … and finished submission.

21/11/24

Reunited with diary!

24/11/24

Studio - started commission. Beginning to incorporate moss into c.m.s piece - painting into the final layer of primer. Waiting game.

More progress on ‘L.Y.s.V’.

Love was spread a little in the studio today - bits and pieces worked on in different areas. Covering all the bases.

27/11/24

Dublin again!

28/11/24