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Hunched over the easel as ever. Doing a big landscape of Belfast. Work in progress. Inspired if not prompted by the great @colin_davidson_artist. I was struck by a post he made a while back talking about his annual tradition stretching back years of painting his beloved Belfast. The vista and muddy muse (a well?) he returns to time after time. His paintings of Belfast are varied but always awesome. The scale and complexity of a high up view of Belfast is incredible and, for the artist, a little terrifying. But Colin sets the standard. Other greats like @francismccrory have tackled our city with graceful panache. Inspired by these local lads I struck up the courage to take on, in Louis MacNeice’s words, the “river-straddling, hill-rimmed town... veneered with the grime of Glasgow… a city built on mud’. And yes, the yellow and endlessly cliché “gantries” are included. Hopefully you like. #belfast #BelfastArt #BelfastArtist #belfastLandscape #arts #artist #belfastArts #NorthernIreland #NorthernIrelandArtist #NorthernIrelandArts #NIarts #NIart #ireland #irishArt #IrishArtist #IrishArts #belfastcity #belfastphotographer #artStudio #ArtistStudio #artistsoninstagram #artoftheday #artwork #artofinstagram (at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CK3tGBsBmNf/?igshid=h5o9od25zs1o

Goes without saying, it’s been an insane 11 months for us all. Artists follow solitary lives, so I’ve been fortunate to pursue my vocation without the upending change, heartache and loss others have had to endure and even suffer. I spent these lockdown months hunkered down in the studio, hunched at the easel for hour after hour, day after day, week after week. Like an athlete going to training camp and hiding from public glare, I wanted to withdraw and simply put in the reps, graft and hard work. I’m not sure people will have noticed, but I chose to massively curtail how I shared my art, my space and my process. By coincidence (or perhaps subconsciously prompted by the pandemic), at the same time a virus changed the world I decided to change and totally review and revise my way and approach to painting. At the same time I was also very fortunate to gain a new and much larger studio space. Something I’m very proud of, but have never shared online. I shared little because I was unsure the change was right. To those close to me who new about this change, I called this my “lockdown experiment”. With the coming of the new year I have gained a lot of confidence and clarity. For a few weeks I stood at a crossroad. Unsure whether to continue in my old vein, or to fully commit to the new path and share this with the world. I only committed to painting full time in autumn 2016. I’ve grown and learnt a lot, from a caricature street artist and evolving to a fine artist who can now spend real time on my craft. From spending minutes on rapid fire art when I first started, I want to truly commit to producing high end desirable art. Today I’m sharing a photo of me in my new space surrounded by some of my latest work. This is just the first step. I am really looking forward to sharing with my friends and followers the fruit of these months of solitary labour. There’s a big surprise to be announced. Something I think people will really like. #belfast #belfastArtist #belfastArts #NorthernIreland #Ireland #NorthernIrishArtist #IrishArt #IrishArtist #IrishArts #BelfastArt #ArtistStudio #artist #IrelandArtist (at Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKTwdRzhLCN/?igshid=h70aov8oib5z

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#Repost @richard_hearns • • • • • • Accompanying the recently installed series 'Teaghlach', this large-scale abstract titled 'Commercium' sits proudly at a collectors home in Dublin. Whats amazing for me is to see the similarly in the pictorial vocabulary which bridges this piece, created four years previously, with the more recent series! . 'Commercium', 2016. Oil on canvas. 178 cm x 135 cm. Private Collection, Ireland. . . . . #art #irishart #irisharts #artcollector #oilpainting #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #artistsoninstagram #contemporaryartcollector #richardhearns #fineart #studio #painting #largescale #informal #abstract #artiststudio #markmaking #drawing #colour #commerce #artcollector #ireland https://www.instagram.com/p/B8xQ-eRnzP1/?igshid=177houhdmwb4y

New logo for my website. Compare this latest #selfportrait with the one I did for the last logo in 2016, swipe left... #artist #arts #irishArtist #irishArts #ireland #irish #portrait #weddingartist #weddingart #caricature #portraiture (at The Giant's Causeway) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0i9GDOB4yb/?igshid=f6zb7sgqoqns

A house in east Belfast. #belfast #art #irishart #irisharts #NotthernIreland (at The Giant's Causeway) https://www.instagram.com/brianjohnspencr/p/BvRqvyHBcKH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fuavb6kqtqpg

The evolution of the handmade #businesscard. On the left is September 2018. On the right is May 2018. #art #artist #irishartist #irisharts (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnbzO3zHMug/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=12o6uu96h4yhq

I have a silent auction over on facebook.com/dairelynchart , 100% of the proceeds will go towards emerging artists by means of the wonderful and amazing @kfestarts art and music festival. You simply choose an artwork you like,msg me your bid and if its accepted, you pledge it to the fundit campaign,link on my fb page also. So you get art, you get to support up and coming artists and you also get that warm feeling in your tummy from doing good. Or that ropey seafood you had earlier. One or the other. #supportart #supportmusic #evenbadseafoodisgood #irisharts #failteireland #waw