"wherever you stand, be the soul of that place" Rumi Inspired by evenings around the fire in Tipperary, listening to Irish storytelling and trad music that has been weaving our souls into the landscape for centuries #rumi #illustratorson
Seven zen rocks, given to seven friends who had an idea. And did it. And the craic was mighty. #zenrock #slowcraft #frecklemagazine #creativity #memoriesforever @joelavertyphotography @estherhc73
"Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees." Joni Mitchell #illustratorsoninstagram #illustration #jonimitchell #livingplanet #thereisnoplanetb #pesticidefree #womenwhofarm
"What is needed is only this: solitude, great inner solitude. Going within and meeting no one else for hours - that is what one must learn to attain." Rainer Maria Rilke #summersketchbook #doodleoftheday @brainpicker
Bear. #sketchoftheday #charactersketch #pencil #bear
This Thursday evening is Dani Larkin's album launch and world premier with the @irishartscenter 😍 I'm proud and chuffed to have worked with her on the album artwork over the past year. Her sound is unique and arresting and powerful ... when she sin
"If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being."
First draft / snippet of a new project ✍️🌍🌎🌏 more details when ready 😋 #palebluedot #illustratorsoninstagram #watercolourandpencil #illustration #onlyoneplanet #thereisnoplanetb
This week I realised someone I know and love has been choosing fear-driven, divisive news sources to read online that dont make any effort to be balanced, thoughtful or critical ... I don't usually say this stuff on here, but could everyone, er, you
#quicksketches #youngforest #doodleoftheday
I've been doing a 'deep dive' into colour theory, as they say. And now I can't stop looking at my pastels and thinking 'how could I ever improve on these colours just sitting beside each other so perfectly and happily?'. Maybe I've gone too deep. Wha
Meitheals are one of my favourite things about life in rural Ireland and life in an ecovillage. Anyone can call a meitheal, where neighbours come together to work on a communal task, often to help look after or restore the land. A dozen people turned
Flashback to the first issue of Freckle ... a limited number of them have been uncovered as we went through our remaining stock, and they're up for sale on the website now! Head over to @freckle.magazine if you need to complete your collection. Fea
Love Part Three has been listened to more than 30,000 times on spotify ... whaattttt?! So proud of @dani_larkin_ It also makes perfect sense, it's a beauty of a song ❤️👏 xo #songillustration #lovepartthree #wontyouwanderwithme
I'm learning trees in Irish, and along with it noticing how different all their buds are. Here is a snapshot of the land today ... birch, beech, cherry, ash and willow just starting to bud, and meanwhile the blackthorn is flowering before it leaves.
I am very happy I can share this ... Dani Larkin's debut album cover, 'Notes for a Maiden Warrior', and its available to preorder as of today! It is a raw, haunting, sublime album and proves, as the Irish Times says, Dani is "steadily emerging a
Have you watched David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet yet? It's his witness statement to the world - that he has seen the destruction of a living planet within a single lifetime. "In this world, a species can only thrive when everything els
A portrait of Helen Waddell I've done for a project on lesser known voices of the partition era. She was a poet, translator, playwright, lecturer and scholar ... one of many fiercely intelligent women to be left out of today's dominant narrative of t
#doodleoftheday - a birthday card for a friend who swims in every bit of wild water she wanders upon. Ocean, river, mountain lake ... everything. She's also a doctor, so there aren't really any words for how strong she has been this past year. I'm wi
"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." thank you for writing these words and speaking them so beautifully @amandascgorman #amandagorman #shiversdownmyspine #sketchoftheday #t