River Boyne winter sunset
Winter sunset on The River Boyne at Poolebeg Bridge in Navan,
Watercolour, Luminence pencils and gouache on Daler Rowney watercolour paper.
Framed 16” x 8 “
setting fore to the river, tinting the snow covered roofs coral and pink.
This view of the river dates from the early 80s from the south bank. These days new apartment buildings and a ring road have changed the skyline utterly so this is a snap shot of a lost part of the town. It is also a scene that is woven into my childhood, the mile long walk to school experiencing the river as seasons and weather changed around it. As it flooded in winter and shrank in summer. It is never still.
The Boyne is one of Irelands great rivers, filled with mythology and lore. It's course is a map of the richest periods of time in Irish art and cultural history, seemingly drawing the richest expressions of Celtic identity to its banks and I hope to continue in it’d path.
It occured to me as I worked on this piece that the sun setting in the west is facing upriver towards The Newgrange Neolithic Burial mound. The River turns in a deep bend at Newgrange also know as Bú na Boinne or the way of the White cow before gathering pace toward Drogheda and emptying in the Irish Sea.
Winter sunset on The River Boyne at Poolebeg Bridge in Navan,
Watercolour, Luminence pencils and gouache on Daler Rowney watercolour paper.
Framed 16” x 8 “
setting fore to the river, tinting the snow covered roofs coral and pink.
This view of the river dates from the early 80s from the south bank. These days new apartment buildings and a ring road have changed the skyline utterly so this is a snap shot of a lost part of the town. It is also a scene that is woven into my childhood, the mile long walk to school experiencing the river as seasons and weather changed around it. As it flooded in winter and shrank in summer. It is never still.
The Boyne is one of Irelands great rivers, filled with mythology and lore. It's course is a map of the richest periods of time in Irish art and cultural history, seemingly drawing the richest expressions of Celtic identity to its banks and I hope to continue in it’d path.
It occured to me as I worked on this piece that the sun setting in the west is facing upriver towards The Newgrange Neolithic Burial mound. The River turns in a deep bend at Newgrange also know as Bú na Boinne or the way of the White cow before gathering pace toward Drogheda and emptying in the Irish Sea.
Winter sunset on The River Boyne at Poolebeg Bridge in Navan,
Watercolour, Luminence pencils and gouache on Daler Rowney watercolour paper.
Framed 16” x 8 “
setting fore to the river, tinting the snow covered roofs coral and pink.
This view of the river dates from the early 80s from the south bank. These days new apartment buildings and a ring road have changed the skyline utterly so this is a snap shot of a lost part of the town. It is also a scene that is woven into my childhood, the mile long walk to school experiencing the river as seasons and weather changed around it. As it flooded in winter and shrank in summer. It is never still.
The Boyne is one of Irelands great rivers, filled with mythology and lore. It's course is a map of the richest periods of time in Irish art and cultural history, seemingly drawing the richest expressions of Celtic identity to its banks and I hope to continue in it’d path.
It occured to me as I worked on this piece that the sun setting in the west is facing upriver towards The Newgrange Neolithic Burial mound. The River turns in a deep bend at Newgrange also know as Bú na Boinne or the way of the White cow before gathering pace toward Drogheda and emptying in the Irish Sea.