Another year has almost vanished

I have been less productive this year, 2025, with my stories for many reasons but it’s never too late to catch up.

I retract into myself a lot when I have been socialising. I need to get my energy back. In reality I would stay in my tiny bubble if I could as it’s quieter but I do try to make an effort to be a little sociable.

As the years pass I find it harder to even try. I just want to be in my own little world, painting and making things and not having to exhibit and do the blabla. It’s not that I don’t want to meet people but I would much prefer on a one to one basis. I run from the limelight, I have no desire to become famous or to attract attention. Yes, it may be to my detriment as nowadays it seems that to be a successful artist you have to almost bare yourself on social media. I cannot bear what artists have to do. I feel like we are expected to be performing monkeys in the zoo. There is a cohort of artists who have decided that you must be political, that art is political and nothing else. This is not my position. Politics are so toxic- for me -I could never make my art based on such things. I would prefer to be an artist who is never discovered than to be one who spits my anger on to the canvas. Art for me must be about the magic in my life. It’s my energy and why would I possibly want to share angry emotions with others. Why would I want paintings riddled with hatred and violence hung on my walls. I couldn’t live with that. I want to connect with people and make them feel the joy and wonder I live when I paint. I read recently that A. Rand said abstract art was the most useless and ridiculous thing she had ever seen. I completely refute this. I think you can’t make such a comment unless you have experienced it and the benefits of it. Not understanding something is all the more reason to try and find out why.

This year I have participated in three exhibitions;

Watercolours - Dunmore East- June

Another Venus Perhaps Collective - Tramore Old Coast Guard Station - June

Waterford City Library - December 2025