A Toffee

A Toffee - oil/panel - 5"x5" - sold

Chocolate Cup Cake with Candle

Created this piece especially to celebrate my 'Painting Blog's first Birthday!' Since the painting projects conception this time last year I have painted and posted over 160 images on this blog while at the same time kept working on and developing my larger Works.

Thanks so very much to all subscribers, supporters, well wishers and collectors. Your continuing support and encouragement has been a real source of inspiration for me. - Richard

Cup Cake with Cadburys Flake

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This post marks my 4th completed 'Cup Cake' painting to date. They are a really interesting and challenging subject - containing at least 3 or 4 different textures to capture and unify. With this piece I wanted to keep a kind of overall 'soft' atmostphere.

Just remembered that my Work is featuring in an exhibition entitled ' A Taste of Dublin - Delicious Paintings,' which is presented by the Leinster & Sandford Galleries, at the Iveagh Gardens D2. the show opened yesterday 11th June and runs until this Sunday 14th June 2009.

Contact:
Leinster Gallery, 27 South Frederick Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Ph: +353 (0)1 6790834 Email: art@leinstergallery.com

Cup Cake with Love Hearts

Cup Cake with Love Hearts - oil/panel- 5"x5" - sold

Cup Cake with Lime 5x5in

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This is the second of 5 or 6 cup cake paintings I hope to create over the next week or so.
About a week ago, I was strolling through the weekend market along the pier in Howth village when I came across this amazing stand full of ornate cup cakes.
I got talking to Paula, the owner of 'Buns.ie', which is Ireland's First's Cup-Cake Bakery and having explained that I was a painter and crazy to make paintings her 'fabulous cup cakes' she very graciously gave me a box of them paint.
True to my word I managed to resist devouring the entire box of cakes and sent Paula the image of the first painting made. She was delighted.
Hope you like this one too Paula.

Just returned home the day before yesterday after a fabulous weekend in Co. Kerry and Co. Clare. My third solo exhibition is up and running at 'The Gallery' in the Sheen Falls lodge estate in Kenmare.
Am very happy with how the show looks - its been really hard work but worth it when you see it all hanging in the Gallery space.
The Show entitled 'Home - a triangluar history', will be open to the public and hotel guests until June 30th.

Stayed in Kenmare for one night and then drove up to Tarbert in north Co. Kerry to catch a ferry across the Shannon estuary into County Clare.
Just last week I was accepted into the Burren Art College in County Clare for a two month studio residency which will start in early July. - I cant wait!
The college is amazing - its built around an old round tower which looks onto the Burren landscape. You can just walk out the back of the college straight onto the lunar landscape of the Burren. Got to see a couple of possible studios and have managed to get a beautiful cottage to stay in just down the road from the college.
Open invite to all to come to visit.

Did manage to get a couple of outdoor landscape painting made on the trip.
Will post them in succession along with others landscape paintings made on recent trips to Co. Mayo in the next month or so.

Cup Cake with Raspberry

Cup Cake with Raspberry - oil/panel - 5"x5" - sold

Orange Lollipop and wrapper 5x5in

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Hi from Co.Mayo.Today was my second day painting in 'the west' and we got out on location on Lough Corrib. It was brilliant to be outdoors even though it did rain a bit.
I have managed to keep up my daily painting as well as the landscape work being made here.
Tried to post last night but had computer problems.typical!
This Lollipop was delicious!

A Cherry on Top 5x5in.

'For the Artist to see is to conceive and to conceive is to compose' - Cezanne.

Press play to watch or watch here on youtube. Enjoy.

Donut with thousands sprinkles 5x5in.

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Toffees 5x5in

Made this painting and video piece yesterday. It's a real insight for me to look at my own painting process as an 'outsider'.

If you cant see the video here is a link to it on youtube. Enjoy.

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