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I paint pictures. Cycled across continents. Like walking when not limping. Loved a dog. Writing a book. #art #cyclist #Dublin #efc Liam Daly he/him Website: https://liamdaly.com/ Prints: Paused (Looking for new platform)

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Oct 18

An introduction cogged from elsewhere online. Hello. I paint pictures, mostly of Ireland, but for 12 yrs now I've been a full-time unpaid carer so time to paint is rare. I've cycled across America and Europe, and among other adventures did a painting twitter cycling tour around Ireland. 1/2

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4h

A photo from back in the days when I had a studio. And sometimes of an evening the sun would shine in through the loading doorway. Which was just a big hole with no door or window. And I liked it. This was a large painting for me, one that ultimately sold to a good Cork home. #painting #ArtYear

Landscape format photo of a panoramic painting hanging on a mesh wall, with an arch-topped spotlight on over half of the painting. The painting is about 30 cm x 100 cm and in a very loose style depicts a section of Dublin's Ormond Quay showing ten adjoining narrow buildings, all bar two of various warm orange red-brick, each of them 4 or 5 stories tall and wearing a blue hat of a slated roof with a chimney separating them from their neighbour. All of the them have a dark street level shop front bar 2 which have a Georgian door with columns and a fanlight. The river wall with the railings of the boardwalk runs across the bottom, just above the dark shadow of the underside of the boardwalk. Signed top left, Liam Daly on the sky which is yellow and like the buildings glows in the sunlight of the arched beam.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 5

#painting "Wicklow Sunrise" is another of my new paintings that sold last month. Once upon a time I sat up all night in Wicklow town and watched the sun rise over the Irish Sea. You don’t really need any more of a reason than that for why I painted this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View over the silhouetted tops of several houses, with chimneys and antennas and a lamp post, across violet sea to the horizon where the last band of water is a light lilac before a sliver of a warmer pinkish lilac. The top two thirds of the painting are the sky, a dark smokey band of blue violet along the horizon with the large rising pink sun just above it in the centre. The lit up sky fans out upwardly from the sun in hues of bold pink and red, up into orange and yellow at the top, in a series of generally horizontal cloud lines. Outside the fan of light sky upwards from the sun, the sky is dark on either side in a series of horizontal dark purple clouds. Signed in lilac in the bottom right corner silhouette of a roof, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

#painting "Harold's Cross" was done on location as the sun was setting and my hands getting colder. I'd sketched in town earlier that day then cycled around Dublin 6 and its impressive houses before sitting in the tiny sliver of a park I'd always wanted to go to. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #UrbanSketching

Landscape format in ink line, watercolours and other water media on mixed media paper. View of terrace of single-storey cottages from inside a park showing grass lawn in foreground and a scots pine tree at both the left and right edges, rendered in dark greens, blues and purples, and a little brown, with sparse dark green foliage. Between them is a small baby leafless brown tree and behind the trees we see through black railings to the houses. Each cottage has a Georgian door with a fanlight above and a single narrow window to its side. From left to right the doors are red, black, grey, lilac, and blue, and each of them is up a set of stairs so we can see the top of a basement below. Their slate roofs are rendered in blue with cream chimneys that have orange pots. Sky is left blank white. A white car and a black car are parked in the right half of the picture on the road in front of the houses facing right. Signed bottom right in black ink, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Tidal Flat" another new #painting which sold last month. I’m drawn to the spaces where land and water argue over sovereignty but peacefully, as in I like the space where there is no resistance and the water comes in and goes out largely as it pleases. #TidesOutTuesday #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on backing board. The bottom two thirds is land, a large olive green-brown triangle in the bottom left and the rest is yellow cut up into segments by a network of water channels. The yellow is separated from the olive corner by a midnight blue channel of water which cuts across the yellow sand in a narrow channel near the bottom right and another from the left side, to join up in the distance from where two more thin lines of blue channels head to the very thin sliver of the pale blue sea along the horizon. On either side of the sea are low long dark alizarin promontories and further back in the distance beyond the sea along the horizon is a solid dark blue mass of an undulating mountain range. The sky is mostly a smokey dark grey, albeit lighter than the mountains, with a dark sky blue in the top left corner and touch of pinkish red in the top right. Signed bottom left in magenta on the olive green-brown, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

It's there - it's the first thing on the menu beside "Home" - it's "Available Original Paintings".

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it's not over but, after 2 months of filing copyright infringement reports, as of today I finally managed to get all of my paintings removed from Temu.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks very much

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 1d

#painting "Roundstone Bog" made a huge impression on me. Perhaps you already know I like our bogs, but the bog in between Roundstone and the Twelve Bens is a wonderland of water and bog vegetation, littered with stories and legends. I'll be painting it again. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueTue

Square format in acrylics on mdf panel. A horizon divides the painting into a top and bottom half. The bottom has painterly low alizarin crimson bog vegetation and very pale blue bodies of water in pools that cover an even greater area with some of the pools being separated from other ones by mere slivers of alizarin or ochre. Along the horizon are some strips of land of yellow ochre and maroon with hilly peaks, and along the horizon behind them jutting up is a distant rocky ridge of pale blue almost lilac mountains with warm tones seeping through like rocky slopes, and their jagged tops having their high points of two triangular peaks. Sky is a painterly pale blue with a hint of teal. Painting was scanned before I signed it.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

As so much is wrong with the country I should probably mention something that's very good. The passport office's online renewal service. Last Monday at 4.30pm I submitted my application. At 7am on Thursday it was in my hands. My photo has been faded so I look barely there, like a ghost, but hey.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 21d

Another new #painting. "Connemara Cottage IV" was years in progress. I like scenes where land sweeps up to a cottage peeping out from a ledge. If it has a curtain of hanging rock behind it, all the better. Near the Renvyle Peninsula. Wish you were heading there right now? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on mat board. Half way up the paining is a small white cottage with very dark roof to the right nestled into a hill on a shelf beside a small group of dark wine-coloured trees with pale orange trunks. In front of it a lime field slopes down to the bottom of the picture, as does a maroon and dark green field over the stone wall to the right, and to the left an olive green field across a dark ditch, while behind the cottage are rounded rocky hills of orange and olive green with grey rocks dotted around. They in turn are in front of a pale yellow green and grey pointed rocky small mountain which dominates the top third of the picture and has blue mountains behind it on the right side and grey and pink mountains on the left side. Sky is very pale grey blue. Along the bottom edge are the tops of some dark bold green-blue bushes with maroon shadows, and 3 small trees at the bottom of the stone wall, with pale orange trunks and branches rising into dark wine clumps. In the central sloping lime field in front of the cottage there are about a dozen white sheep spread around although half of them are up beside the cottage. The fields along the bottom are orange. Signed bottom left beside a pole by the bushes, in maroon on orange, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

Have a #painting. "West Cork Trees" came out of cycling past these lads several times out west of Clonakilty where I would catch a glimpse of them through a gap in a hedgerow and despite how far they were away they would always arrest me. I hope they're doing ok. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Landscape format in acrylic on canvas. On far side of a pale grey-green field with tufts of short vertical strokes of green and blue, is a small dark-green broken hedgerow about one running horizontally, about one quarter the way up from the bottom, and from it grow 2 trees both with twisting branches of green and red without foliage and then some clumps of blue-green foliage just at their extremities. Beyond trees is another field, rendered as a narrow strip of blazing orange and at far side is line of trees and bushes in paler blue-green than the near hedgerow. Sky is pale blue in the top half with some strips of clouds high up, but the bottom half of the sky directly behind the trees down to the horizon is one large dark mass of billowing clouds topped with lighter fluffy edges of almost white. Signed bottom right: Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 2d

Ah fabulous, thank you. Lovely seeing them together.

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

At this time of need for a possible greater sense of unity, I regret to inform you, Ireland, that I'm having coddle for dinner.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · Sep 6

Another new #painting that's sold. "Slattery's, Capel Street" I painted because, well surely you can guess. Although aside from liking pints and good memories in good places with good people, I like junctions. And I've loved Capel St since I could walk. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer

Landscape format in very soft painterly acrylics on mat board. Centre of the painting shows a junction with a large corner building, three stories high, three wide window-bays on both sides as well as windows above the door on the corner itself. The sun is shining on the left side and the street to the left, while the right side and street to the right are in shadow. The street level of the featured corner building has cream canopies over the door and all of the windows except the centre one on the right side. The street level is rendered in dark wine details on a peach background. Upper stories are cream with darker detailing of tan and alizarin. The roof appear flat. Flags of Ireland, Italy, and Wales, project out from the 2nd story on the left, and of France and Leinster Rugby on the right side. Two barrels and a menu board are outside on the left. There are about a dozen buildings in a continuous terrace on the left side, 3 or 4 stories, narrow, red brick or painted faded white, with dark shop fronts. Just one building is visible down side street on the right, a red brick one with a dark green shop front. Footpath is cream in sun, and blue in shadow. Street surface is smokey blue and purple, with lightly brushed in yellow box markings in bottom left corner. Edge of building in foreground is along right edge, grey stone at street level and red brick for the upper 2 stories with cream corner stones. Sky is whisked teal. Throughout the painting flecks of other colours show through. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

So we don't miss out on the transfers excitement I think I'll vote #1 for Jim Gavin and #2 for my real choice. Think of the suspense if loads of us did that, causing the nation to have to wait for the transfers to find out. Of course, not too many people should do this obviously or, well, ya know...

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

I wonder if he'll get more votes than the turkey...?
#NothingToDoWithTheUSA

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 3d

Probably shouldn't have looked. But given I've managed to get taken down 95% of my paintings that are being sold unauthorized on Temu, and am closing in on the rest (that I can find anyway), I had a peep at AliExpress. And there I found 60 of my paintings on stuff. Think I'll make a pot of tea.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

Have done at least ten paintings of the Burren, most of them you can see posted to this account. And also paintings of villages on the edge of the Burren like Doolin, Lahinch and Kinvara. Perhaps this search might show some of them: bsky.app/search?q=fro...

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks very much.

I have been to the Cliffs of Moher many times, and painted them several times. Quite the place alright.

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eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks very much Markham

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you very much. It's such a wonderful and varied county.

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you very much. It's so great up there. Had been so long on my list of places to go as I kept missing chances, so was delighted when I finally did. And will again.

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant! Thank you.

eolaí the artist @eolai.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks. It's hard to see on a screen the amount of colours that went into making all those warm bands of bog.
Didn't even open the curtains today until very late such was the noise of it all through the night. But we had food, tea, and no need to venture outside the door so all good - thank you.