Another new Irish #painting. "Kylemore" has now gone to its new home. It came out of a day I'd been cycling around the stunning Twelve Bens of north Connemara as the bike and I kept stopping to enjoy the views of the lake as the sun did what the sun does of an evening. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #Stunday

Here, have a #painting, one from the northwest corner of Ireland. "Errigal and her Sisters" is a Donegal scene I painted shortly after walking past it with my little dog every day for a few weeks. Good times. #SpeirGorm #BlueSkyMonday #ArtYear #MountainMonday

Hand-delivered one of the new paintings last night. I'm getting there. It was a good excuse to sit on a train and read a book.

A #painting "Portrush Harbour came after cycling from Derry around Binevenagh and on to north Antrim where after sleeping off a sickness for 24 hours in Portrush I walked to the harbour the next day. When I finished painting this scene I cycled off around the Causeway Coast. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Have yourselves a #painting. "Cliffs of Moher III" came from a day I'd spent with friends seeing who could throw the largest stone over the cliffs that the wind would throw back at us. Aside from ducking a lot I also spent a fair bit of time savouring the views and our youth. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

#painting "Ballina Junction" came out of multiple trips to the County Mayo town. I sketched it and made notes on follow up trips until I finished it a couple of years ago. The original work is available; see my site for measurement and price details liamdaly.com/2023/12/23/b... #ArtYear #SpeirGorm

"North Earl Street". A #painting I did as a celebration of the Dublin street, and something called the Spire. Buildings and streets are like a fairground to me, because I love squares. You may recognise Dunnes Stores, and the old Kylemore if you like your tea. #ArtYear #UrbanGaze #SpeirGhorm

Have yourselves a west of Ireland #painting. "Boat, Benbulben" came out of a view I had one sun-setting evening across Drumcliff Bay to one of the most iconic mountains in Ireland when spending a few perfect days in County Sligo. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday #MountainMonday #JuneSea #Shore

Another new #painting. "Connemara Cottage IV" was years in progress. I like scenes where land sweeps up to a cottage peeping out from a ledge. If it has a curtain of hanging rock behind it, all the better. Near the Renvyle Peninsula. Wish you were heading there right now? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Have an Irish #painting why don't you. "Ormond Quay Lower, Boardwalk" is another of my paintings of the north quays of my Dublin, painted for the same reasons as the others. Because I love squares and rectangles and walking and not walking and Dublin. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Scape

Another new #painting recently sold to a good home. "Below The Mountains" is that place where sweeping stretches of sand meet water and I meet happiness. If, in your special places, below the mountains are water and sand, maybe this is how you remember them too. #ArtYear #TidesOutTuesday #SpeirGhorm

Have now reported maybe 150 items on Temu for copyright infringement of my paintings. It's nearly as much work as painting them was. They are taking them down but I'm yet to be convinced that I'm not simply playing Whack-a-Mole with China.

A #painting from last year. "Kilmore Quay Boat" came out of looking at this boat in Ireland's southeast for an age once upon a time. Its shape and texture kept bringing me back for repeat visits. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #ColorADay #RedWed

My #painting "Guinness Gate II" I did of the gates to the world famous Dublin brewery beside the River Liffey not knowing that within a couple of years it would be changed forever. After walking and cycling past it a million times I was very happy when I finally painted it. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

An older #painting for you. "Killarney". Show me a straight road with a bend, anywhere in Ireland, line it with shops and pubs and eating places, then stick a church in there somewhere, and I'll happily paint it. This is how the County Kerry town looked to me once upon a time. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm

A #painting from the southwest of Ireland. "Iveragh Peninsula" came out of good times in County Kerry. That's all I'm prepared to say at this point. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

A #painting for you. "Golden Leaves II", the second in an ongoing series, came from a time when I had a little dog and she loved finding leaves as much as I did. I still paint golden leaves but it's not as much fun finding them any more. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #BlueSkyMonday

Another west of Ireland #painting for you. "Westport II" In the County Mayo town there are two corners I'm particularly drawn to repeatedly when it comes to painting. This is one of them. I actually got to go back to Westport this year, for too brief a time but quite the treat. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

An Irish #painting for you. "Stone Cottage" came out of liking outbuildings, rough fields, and bright days that are dark. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunning

A #painting from the southwest of Ireland "Bandon II" came out of times I spent cycling in West Cork, the town being one I've always enjoyed visiting. And I'm very much overdue another visit. Maybe this is what happens when you get older. I wonder if it's still orange? #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

This week in 1996 I was in the middle of my cycle across the US, facing a day of 120 miles (193 km) from SE Kansas north into Missouri and Kansas City. It is the only journal entry not contemporaneous - because I lost the tape so wrote it from memory 12 yrs later eolai.medium.com/cycling-acro...

Time for another west of Ireland #painting. "Cliffs of Moher I" came out of, well you can guess. I've been to the County Clare cliffs 7 times but the first left the biggest impression. So young I was fearless and went to the edge to look straight down at the Atlantic. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunday

Another new #painting destined for a new home. "Birds, Wires #20" is the latest in my longest running series of paintings. Everywhere I walk I look at how wires slice up the landscapes behind them. Then I wait for birds to land in my pictures. But that’s not exactly a hardship. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Parceling paintings. Once they're sealed up I usually never see them again - in person anyway, though sometimes I get lucky and years later find myself in a home when they hang.

A #painting. "Newman House & University Church" was done standing with my fold-up bicycle and fold-up beard on Dublin's Stephen's Green, for a couple of pleasant hours sketching the Museum of Literature Ireland's Newman House and the Newman University Church. #urbansketching #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

A new #painting sold last month. "Clew Bay Boat" came out of a day cycling by the County Mayo bay when I was arrested by the yellow presence of Girl Catriona somewhere near Murrisk. As I have a soft spot for Nephin I stood so the boat lined up with the mountain, then said, yes. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Have a #painting. "Kinsale I" came from a time I guided 6 people from America around the south west of Ireland. In Kinsale one day at 6am while everyone was asleep I sketched the view. Then when back home I spent about a year making this painting from that sketch. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Stunday

A Mayo #painting, "Doolough Boats". if you’re on the road from Killary Harbour up to Clew Bay, you’ll go through the valley of Delphi and then you hit Doolough. If you're on a bicycle you'll stop, enjoy the iconic view as you approach the jetty, then stop again to look back. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm

Let me share with you a #painting. I painted Dublin's "Loopline Bridge" mostly because I loved the cylindrical piers, or I did when they were left in their black and orange rather than covered in graffiti. Also it's the view I always see when I realise I'm missing my DART. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

It's all happening in the back garden this week. Just went out to check and see if the recycling bin needs to go out in the morning only to be stopped in my tracks around the back of the shed by this spiny beauty. #SpeirGhorm

A Kerry #painting "Cahersiveen, Main St" I painted because I love right angles. If I’m having a conversation with you, chances are I’m looking over your shoulder, not because you haven’t got lovely eyes but because I love looking at right angles. And streets have loads of them. #ArtYear #SpeirGhoirm

Can't believe anyone here's daft enough to believe it, but just in case let me reiterate: none of my paintings are authorized to be sold on Temu. The hundreds of items there with my paintings on, are using stolen images, are very poor resolution, and I'm earning nothing. Feel free to report them.

Have a #painting. The last time I was in Waterford city it was dark and it was wet and it was romantic, which I haven't worked out how to paint yet. So here's "Waterford II" which came out of a sunnier time. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Another new Irish #painting. "Kylemore" has now gone to its new home. It came out of a day I'd been cycling around the stunning Twelve Bens of north Connemara as the bike and I kept stopping to enjoy the views of the lake as the sun did what the sun does of an evening. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #Stunday

Let me share a #painting of a place I've loved in the west of Ireland. "Connemara Field" came out of a day in south Conamara where I sat for hours by the side of a road with my bicycle, my paints, and my dreams. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Another new #painting that's sold. "Slattery's, Capel Street" I painted because, well surely you can guess. Although aside from liking pints and good memories in good places with good people, I like junctions. And I've loved Capel St since I could walk. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #BlueSkyArtShow #Summer

Been a long time since I've said this, due to the painting sale and working on getting them to their new homes, but today is a good day. Because having finished reading a book last night, "The Accidental Tourist" by the masterful Anne Tyler, today I go to my To-Be-Read piles to choose a new book.

Time for a #painting, albeit one that looks like 4 paintings. "Sky Road, 4 Views" came out of cycling along the fabled Sky Road beyond Clifden into the Atlantic Ocean. The views were ones I had on the southern side of the narrow peninsula. They weren't bad. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

#painting "Wicklow Sunrise" is another of my new paintings that sold last month. Once upon a time I sat up all night in Wicklow town and watched the sun rise over the Irish Sea. You don’t really need any more of a reason than that for why I painted this. #ArtYear #SpeirGhorm #scape

While enjoying the colour of two Red Admirals on the damson tree I noticed something else different, crept closer and had a good look at what is a Comma. First time to be aware of one of those beautiful butterflies in our garden. #SpeirGhorm

Have a #painting, if you will. "Right Turn, Limerick" came out of a day cycling from Limerick city into Tipperary. In the village of Cappamore I was quite taken by the signs for a right turn back towards Limerick city, but then I'm always quite taken by signs. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

Have another #painting. "Clew Bay 1" came out of, well liking that rather special bay. One year I did 11 miniatures of the County Mayo wonder, and when I'd finished I was very happy with them but wished I had done 11 large size paintings. So one day I suspect I will. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm #Scape

"Inishmore Horse". A special #painting for me. As an unpaid carer I don't earn much but wanted to give back. So with permission I used a friend's photo as reference, and donated half of the proceeds to the charity of their choice - the Down Syndrome Centre in Dublin's northside. #ArtYear #SpeirGorm

Have a #painting. "Slovenian Church" came out of one of my most perfect days. It was in Slovenia, cycling from Ireland to Istanbul, when I cycled a detour from Ljubljana. Back home after the trip I started painting it. Took me a couple of years before I was happy with it. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #Scape

"Tidal Flat" another new #painting which sold last month. I’m drawn to the spaces where land and water argue over sovereignty but peacefully, as in I like the space where there is no resistance and the water comes in and goes out largely as it pleases. #TidesOutTuesday #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

A #painting for you. "Liffey Bridges" came out of, well, being in town and loving the river and how we cross it and face it. It was also a particularly orange day. This painting was included in the official book celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Ha'penny Bridge. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear #UrbanGaze

A big thank you to everyone for tolerating my countdown posts the last couple of weeks to the end of my print shop. I hadn't wanted to end it and was surprised how emotional I found it as one by one I disabled hundreds of paintings. Hoping to have a new one asap but that could be ages away. Onwards.

Here, have #painting. "Letternoosh" came out of a perfect day by Streamstown Bay when I was cycling on the north side of the Kingstown peninsula in Galway looking back east towards the Clifden direction, and just ridiculously happy at every turn. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

It's done. That was emotional.

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