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Comment by Norah Blount on March 15, 2019 at 2:33: Invigorating though !

Comment by Kyrle Cahill on March 14, 2019 at 20:51: holy mother of god.....but were'all right,...... its the Donegal bunch that are in trouble,!!

Comment by Norah Blount on March 14, 2019 at 14:16: Forecast not great Kyrle

Saturday: Rain in the early morning, heavy in places, with falls of sleet and snow in some northern and northwestern areas, but brightening up gradually from the northwest during the morning and early afternoon, with scattered showers following. However, it will turn much colder everywhere and some of the showers will turn wintry, especially in the north and west, but in other parts also, with hail, sleet and a risk of snow. There is also a risk of thunder. Maximum afternoon temperatures 2 to 5 degrees in the north and northwest, 6 to 9 Celsius elsewhere. Winds mostly moderate northwesterly. Saturday night will be dry in many areas, but there will be further wintry showers, mainly in west Ulster, Connacht and west Munster. Very cold, with widespread frost and a risk of icy stretches. Min. minus 2 to plus 2 Celsius.

Comment by Kyrle Cahill on March 13, 2019 at 22:27: I'm up for anything, Frank might be talking about the twelfth Lock , Thats a great venue, very visual around that area.

Comment by Norah Blount on March 13, 2019 at 19:41: This exhibition opens this week, so it might be an option for sat, though I think Frank mentioned somewhere along the canal near Castleknock too ? I think the forecast is variable lol, isnt it always so I will check it again tomorrow

An extensive exhibition of new works by Gabhann Dunne will launch in Farmleigh Gallery at 6.30pm on the 14th of March 2019.

‘May you never see the corncrake again!’ (Nár fheice tú an traonach arís) was once a way of wishing someone bad luck or worse, since you were hoping they wouldn’t live to see another summer. The imprecation implies a culture familiar with the corncrake and its distinctive call, and perhaps, more significantly, with the knowledge that it was a summer visitor. Once common along the river Shannon, the corncrake is now almost extinct due to human and climatic factors that stretch from here to its wintering habitats in Africa and the migration routes in between.

In his Farmleigh Gallery exhibition ‘Crossing the Salt’, Dunne reflects on changes wrought by the journeyings of water and the migration of wildlife and what they have to tell us about our identity. Cristin Leach the Sunday times art critic said of it “’Crossing the Salt’ is, in equal parts, disturbing and delightful, ambitious in scale but delicate and measured in its presentation”. Over a hundred birds, painted on separate panels, plunge, swoop and fly in this large installation. In this and other works in the show Dunne uses colour and gesture to evoke the vulnerability and energy of his subject, and asks the viewer to think on issues of emigration, migration, absence, and our changing climate.

Gabhann Dunne is a Dublin-based painter. He studied Fine Art Painting at the Dublin Institute of Technology and NCAD, Dublin. He is also a former winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award (2011) and the Hennessy Craig Scholarship and the Whytes Award for Painting for his entry to the RHA Annual Exhibition (2009). Dunne has exhibited widely, his recent shows include ‘Crossing the Salt’, Limerick City Gallery (2018), ‘In the Presence of Birds’ (2017), ‘The Flower’s Pilgrim’ at the Molesworth Gallery in Dublin (2015), and ‘Magenta Honey’ at The Lab in Dublin (2015).

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Comment by Kyrle Cahill on March 13, 2019 at 16:48: Hi Norah , I'm in Dublin so I'm up for a Paintout, Saturday should be very nice.

Comment by Kyrle Cahill on March 13, 2019 at 16:31: Thanks Sally, Kevin ,Norah, that cliff has been on my mind to paint for a long time now. I liked the sketch I did in pencil underneath, and the sunburst gave me the colours , they were gone in a flash.

Comment by Norah Blount on March 13, 2019 at 10:29: Beautiful use of watercolour Kyrle - thoughtfully and masterfully painted. I think David Curtis said on one of his dvds " enough said" when you think you might just add some more paint . Anyone feel like going out this sat ?