Home From Home: Three Urban Landscapes

Three very different urban landscapes taken on my travels in recent years, and converted to Oil Paintings. Each place has especial significance for me. Each autobiographical in some way. Trying to capture that sense of personal connection in each painting through use of colour and detail was my objective. Even if you can’t relate to…

Painted Cities and Towns

Some of you who follow my other blog, Diary of a Person Being Human, or who follow me on Instagram @frieda_mouse, will know that I have been turning my attentions to transforming some of my photographic images into digital paintings. I’ve been having so much fun with it, that I have already created an ample…

Weekly Photo Challenge – Wish – I Wish…

  I Wish… I wish I were a pretty angel Dancing on a leaf, Then jump into the sky Against all disbelief. I wish I could espy the crowd All huddled at my door From my angelic vantage point, So they could not hear me roar, As I swooped down beyond the fence, And ate…

Three Days of Dublin Summer

I’m often at a bit of a loss as to what to post here as I seem to have a very broad range of subjects that I photograph, and that I have photographed over the years. For the past couple of weeks I have been dedicating my time to my Dublin pictures, taken last May…

WPC – Anticipation – The Boy and the Dragon Egg

With anticipation the imagination hatches some wonderful things, like an embryonic dragon curled up inside the wrinkled dark shell of an exotic egg-shaped avocado, and guarded over momentarily by an eager young boy anticipating his new parental role. My own anticipation swelled as my visit to see the Dragon Boy came closer, and finally I…