As is traditional on this day: Samuel Beckett’s thoughts via telegram on the coming New Year of 1984

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Micheál Martin giving us several reasons why he's a terrible person, all in one headline and just in time for Christmas!

R.I.P. Anne Madden Portrait for The Sunday Tribune

VERY chuffed to see our show A R C H I P E L A G O featured in the Irish Times Top Ten Exhibitions - last day is tomorrow 21st Dec. in @rha-arts.bsky.social

Christopher Anderson’s @vanityfair.com pictures of Susie Wiles and the senior team of the Trump administration do speak thousands of words. BUT Anderson’s very few words to Stephen Miller are fucking priceless.

Photographer holding cat, making portraits. Instax Polaroid by Weronika Maria Kusmider #atelierhorgan

The Kwoo Void show is on this eve at 6pm on @dublindigitalradio.bsky.social listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

We are now accepting first round entries for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition, in association with McCann FitzGerald. Join us next summer for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition featuring painting, print, sculpture, drawing, photography, mixed media and architectural models. 1/

An impromptu tribute to one of the greats

Book a New Year portrait before December 15th, either for yourself or as a Christmas present, and avail of a 15% reduction on my usual rates – DM for details. 1. Actress Sarah Allen 2. Actor Lorcan Cranitch 3. Sound Artist Anne Marie Deacy 4. Writer Tanya Sweeney #atelierhorgan

Artist and guide Mags Harnett giving a Slow Looking tour of A R C H I P E L A G O at the @rha-arts.bsky.social. Exhibition continues until December 21st.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

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My head nearly fell off. The actual Minister for Health said this? m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

I’m very honoured to be an invited artist in “Even in the Darkest Times”, the Ranelagh Arts Winter Exhibition supporting @msf.ca and their ongoing work in Gaza. The exhibition opens 5th Dec at Ranelagh Arts Centre 6-8pm and runs until 9th Jan. 1. Home, Inis Oírr 2. Sculpture by Susan Buttner

December Portrait Offer: Book a New Year portrait before December 15th, either for yourself or as a Christmas present, and avail of a 15% reduction on my usual rates – DM or email via link in bio for details. 1–3: Recent portraits of actor and filmmaker Lia Mckeown #atelierhorgan

Thanks Sarah, I enjoyed working with you too.

Did you know? If you order anything from our Olde Worlde Wide Webbe Shoppe you will always get a ton of freebies thrun in anniewest.com #christmas #ort #booksforchristmas

First year selling my art at Christmas without the Other site, where most of my sales came from, as well as losing US orders to new tariffs, so it'll be a tough one - I put huge work into every order, so even if you can't buy, shares help get them in front of eyes. GRMA! www.ciaraioch.com/artprints

Portrait of the artist Patricia Hurl, made on her 83rd birthday. Personal work, 2025. #atelierhorgan

Sad to hear that screenwriter Ted Gannon has passed away.

This is a really nice piece in Hot Press about how we're differently to other businesses and why. It'd be great if you could read and share. My perhaps naive hope is that a big business might see it and copy us. It works. #speirgorm www.hotpress.com/lifestyle-sp...

goodnight Ali Smith a story of love Other Stories and other stories

Congratulations to Elaine Feeney, winner of Author of the Year at last night's Irish Book Awards. This is an outtake from a portrait I made of her as part of an ongoing series for Literature Ireland, inspired by her work on University of Galway's Oral History report into the Tuam Mother & Baby home.

This is "Harbour", my submission to the Iova Winter Show, which takes place for one day only (13th December) in Tailors Hall, Dublin. Details are on Iova Group’s Instagram page, deadline to submit is 30th November.

I came across some out-takes from an editorial feature I shot in Boston a couple of years ago - it was never used because the magazine went out of business.

Having a good end-of-year

It's becoming clear that I'm never going to be a wealthy gadabout. I know I could try gadding about on a budget but come on, what's the point.

type for books used to be set using little metal letters built into words in racks and then inked and pressed on to paper. If you had stock phrases you wanted to reuse a lot you could make a cast of them called a ‘stereotype’. The sound of them *clicking* into place, in French, is ‘cliché’

Le flâneur à Paris

Les pingouins de Paris

Peter Zelei

Many congratulations to @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social , whose novel The Benefactors has just been named Waterstones Irish Book of the Year. This is an out-take from a series of portraits of writers I'm working on for @literatureireland.bsky.social.

A memorial in Place de la République for the victims of the attacks in Paris, ten years ago today

Fashion, Paris

Thank you Michael D. and Sabina

Paris

Am distraught to discover my favourite tiny Japanese pens are no longer being made

On achève bien les cheveux Henri Cartier-Bresson

Making A Show of Myself - how I took a dramatic route to overcome shyness and find my voice. My latest article for The Gloss Magazine, link in comments below.

SOLITUDE IS ENRICHING

Congratulations to Mick O’Dea, who was conferred with an honorary Doctorate in Philosophy yesterday by Dublin City University, in recognition of his distinguished career as an artist. The portrait was made during the filming of "The Beholder", my documentary about portrait painters.

Portrait of the artist Seamus Moran from my photobook New York City. His exhibition of architectural photographs "From Bauhaus to Baggot Street" is on view in the Europa Gallery, Chatham Street, Dublin until November 10th