the cait gallery

I had great fun making this jam, painting this jam and eating this jam! I have only a single bush but I made eight or so jars of jam after the children picked and ate the currants. The colour is amazing.

My two boys on school holidays did a lot of indoor lurking due to the showery july weather, but Aisling in defiance of the weather takes her buggy out for a stroll in the rain.

If anyone is interested in buying any of my artwork a selection of small paintings is now available on my Etsy shop. https://www.etsy.com/ie/shop/TheCaitGallery.

I ship worldwide.

Other work is available as always, at The Gallery, Bedford Row, Limerick.

The real outdoors daffodils are just starting to open this week but I got some of the commercial forced spring flowers to paint. I experimented with an acrylic underpainting here to get things going.

There is not a lot of snow in this part of the country so its quite special and exciting when we get a snowfall however little it may be. A heavy snowfall here is 4 inches and many winters we get no snow at all. The kids have to be quick to build snowmen because the few centimetres of snow is generally gone before midday.

I was recently delighted to discover that I was one of the winners in the Painters Online "Paint your life competition" with my painting "Garden flowers in the sun"  The competiton was hosted by Leisure Painter magazine with prizes courtesy of the sponsors Search Press and Derwent .

I've reshuffled the image galleries a bit and added a drawings gallery. 

Great afternoon was had by all outside The Gallery on bedford row last saturday 17th may. Sadhbh Lyons did a great job organising and hosting the open-air painting demonstration.

The technical issues have been solved. The galleries have been fully viewable for a few weeks but there was problems with blog updates.