Landscape format in loose acrylics on mixed media paper. Estuary scene with very pale blue water in horizontal band across the bottom and half a dozen small boats scattered - all facing right, the four larger ones all with hulls of different blues and white wheelhouses. Two smaller rowing boats are barely more than a white and red sliver further away in the centre closer to shore. Along the shore are a couple of terrace rows of pastel coloured 2-story houses with blue slate roofs. A much larger 3-storey pale yellow house stands at the shore by the left edge. It has dormer windows. Behind the houses is a steep hill of various greens of bushes, lawns and trees, with another horizontal terrace of pastel 2-story houses about halfway up while behind it a road goes from the right edge up diagonally left into the blue-green mass of trees at the top where three stand-alone houses peep out in gaps. They are red with blue roof, pale blue with darker blue roof, and pale yellow with a double gable front and purple roof. The sky is a narrow band of painterly yellow above the uneven tree line at the very top of the painting. Signed bottom right, Liam Daly

A #painting from southwest Ireland. "Glenbrook 1" came out of a time I cycled from Cobh, where I had been painting en plein air, back to where I could get the ferry across Cork harbour while enjoying views like these, and then I cycled on to friends beyond. #art #SpeirGhorm #BlueSkyMonday #ArtYear

Wide landscape format in painterly acrylics. Under a sky that is cloudy mix of predominantly yellow ochres but also elements of white and a little blue, with touches of grey cloud, is a row of 5 buildings on one side of a purple-pink surfaced road that runs across the whole painting and bends by the left edge out of sight around behind itself. Buildings are one and two stories high with slated roofs. The rightmost building is pink and has two windows in its very dark blue roof, the orange building is really two buildings joined together, both with doors but the right half being single-story and the left two. Its two slate roofs are a green blue colour. The building to its left is a white single story with white chimneys either end of its blue violet roof. To its left is a brown 2-story building with a navy blue roof, the brown being lighter on the front upper story. And to its left we see only the gable of a 2-story white building and dark blue slopes either side of the end chimney. At the right edge of the painting a grey stone bridge leads onto the road diagonally from the left half of the bottom edge in the foreground. Behind the row of buildings are a scattering of other similar houses visible to the right and over the pink right-most building. The painting was photographed before I added my signature.

A #painting from some time ago. "Doolin II" came out of several visits to the west of Ireland where the County Clare village was the main event of good walks, good soup, good talks, and some pints. I liked it best in February when not swamped with other people just like me. #art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

I spent years wanting one but couldn't afford one. Rented one a few times which only confirmed I really wanted one - it really suited my situation. When I finally got one I kept track of usage and change in my public transport use, and discovered it paid for itself in less than 3 years.

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Under a yellow sky is a terrace of six 4-story buildings, with a side street at the left edge and cropped at the right edge. Buildings are narrow being two windows wide, with shopfronts at street level. All are red brick save for the left end building which is white with red corner bricks, and the 3rd from left which is also white. Shopfronts are mostly black, with some blue and white, and some red and yellow details. Readable names include "Voodoo" and "Tattoo". Windows of upper floors are all narrow and are rendered as blue - or black where open - with pale frames and sills. Roofs are like blue hats, and the two leftmost have white arches in front of dormer windows. In front of buildings is river wall of blue-grey-green granite with white steps in centre down to the left past a low band of green clinging seaweed to the water of very dark blue.

I need to drink tea and think about the rest of my life. So here's a #painting. "Arran Quay, Liffey Steps" was painted because I loved looking at this collection of buildings at the western end of this Dublin quay. Even stuck in traffic, once I was upstairs on the bus. #SpeirGorm #ArtYear

Not really a cake man but had some today from my uncle's 90th birthday on the weekend. It had an amazing very intense dark green outer decoration hiding what was a rather delicious lemon sponge. Probably should have washed my hands straight after before going the jax though.

Thank you very much! I've finished another one last year I've yet to show people, but every April I'm reminded that I'd like to do a whole series of them.

Opened the front door for a clean look at the blue sky and thanks to a slight breeze was treated to a gentle falling of pink snow.

Kedgeree two days in a row. Things aren't all bad.

Thank you very much!

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. A tower house castle, in lilac grey stone, stands on a small mound that juts out from the right into a body of water. Mound is olive-green grass with darker bushes and at its base is ringed with a line of pale grey rocks then a narrow strip of pale green grass before the edge with the water which is comprised of a wide band of maroon and dark blue-grey rocks which reaches almost to the left edge of the painting. The water is lapping diagonal strokes of lime and pale green with yellow and also narrow alizarin ripples. The reflection of the castle and dark rocks is in wine with lime rippling highlights. About half way up the painting there is a horizontal strip of land in the background on the left, pale green with dark bushes/trees and a broken short strip of pale grey, possibly stones or a graveyard. The edge of the strip at the water has a thick band of dark alizarin. Sky is a smokey mix of yellow with white. Photograph of the painting was taken before I added my signature.

I've been slack, so have a #painting. "Dunguaire Castle" came out of a time I cycled in the west of Ireland through the Burren on up to Galway Bay, stopping at Kinvara and then at the castle that guards it because, well how could you not stop and just look. #art #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #TidesOutTuesday

Wide landscape form in acrylics on canvas. Green all over except for sheep and hedgerows. Bottom third is foreground of pale warm green field with four black-faced sheep grazing. They are viewed from the side and facing left. On their white coats are a blue and a pink mark. Behind is a row of loosely painted fields and beyond that the top half of the painting is all shades of a cool grey-green littered with dots of individual and groups of sheep. Hedgerows are in pure black, almost abstract in their hard-edged broken squiggle form. I took the photograph of the painting before I added my signature.

Have a #painting. I've painted lots of sheep, and had to come up with titles for them, which is why you have lilac sheep and sheep with stone walls or of an evening - but this was started first, a very long time ago. It went to a good pub in Dublin.
#art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear #ColourADay #GreenSat

Landscape format in painterly acrylics on canvas. Under a yellow sky with some orange and green smoky highlights, is the grey stone wall around the compound on the rock with the collapsed square Tower House closest to view high on the right and the Round Tower further to its left almost along the vertical centre of the painting. Foreground is steep grassy slope with bold almost black shadows in generally short horizontal daublings from which protrude a group of large grey rocks with white and orange and sky blue lichen spots and deep black fissures. The surrounding stone wall above comes from the right edge about two thirds of the way up the painting and curves and drops sharply down to the left meeting the left edge of the painting about one third of the way up - it has a pale capstone. Signed top left in very dark blue, Liam Daly

Time for a #painting from the south of Ireland. "Rock of Cashel IV" came out of a visit to the Tipperary landmark where I walked up the steep side, lay down on the grass and sketched the iconic site. A few years later I then used that sketch to do this painting. #art #SpeirGhorm #Scape #ArtYear

Thank you. I'm planning to do a short video of the whole book, and I'll probably drip a few individual pictures out around that time - likely in the summer.

Thanks very much. That we've been in many places in the world together helped make it irresistible.

Thank you very much.
I remember thinking when I first had the idea that I wished I hadn't - because I knew I'd have to see it through, and it was rather a big idea, in research alone never mind the execution. But I'm very glad I did it.

Thank you very much! Would've been a lot easier on my eyes if I had just taken a photograph 🙂

Landscape format on white watercolour paper in black ink line, watercolour paints, and grey watercolour brush markers. A snow scene where the only colour is in the ten items hanging on a washing line in the foreground. The background is a stone hut with an open doorway through which we see into blackness, a window to its left boarded up with vertical planks, and some sort of fabric roof with rocks placed along along the near front edge and the higher far top edge to hold it in place. Cloth that would hang down over the doorway is slung back up onto the roof. Behind to the left is a few dry stone walls and the pale outline of a flat hill. Behind to the right is a very pale grey distant landmass. The sky is left blank white and the ground being snow is also left blank white. Left to right hanging on the washing line are a pair of white gloves with red geometric decoration, a white woolly hat with grey geometric decoration, a red flat ceremonial scarf with three yellow tassels, a red silk embroidered cap, a green silk embroidered cap, a pair of white woollen gloves with grey geometric decoration, a grey woollen bobble hat with white and dark grey geometric decoration, a multi-coloured striped pair of woollen gloves, a pair of woolen gloves of stripes of various shades of blue, and a pair of multi-coloured striped woollen gloves.

A different #painting for me. For a friend's big round-numbered birthday I painted him a book of 72 pages featuring scenes from his life that I happened to witness. Luckily we got around a bit. This is one of the Nepal pages, a scene from up near the Tibetan border. #art #scape

Portrait format in acrylics on canvas. The bottom half is the stones and the top half is the farmland on a hill in the distance with a patchwork of green fields separated by hedgerows. The stones are all around a rectangular trough rendered so dark it's basically black, with stone slabs lining its sides, and all the other stones sort of radiating out from it. Many of the stones have a very pale blue, pink, or ochre top in the sun with dark grey on other parts and a very dark shadow side. Some of the pale grass around it is worn away to dirt, presumably from visitors walking on it. A short distance past it is a dark green hedge running horizontally across the painting, and it is beyond that we see the hill of farmland. In the top left there is a dip in the hill's horizon to give us a glimpse of a sliver of the ocean. The sky is a flat rich blue. Signed bottom right in dark red, Liam Daly

Have a West Cork #painting. "Drombeg Fulacht Fiadh" was painted because I like things that are beside things. Also, much as I like cooking I like stones even more, and when arranged into things well, I'm beside myself. This is beside one of Ireland's best example of a stone circle. #art #SpeirGhorm

ffs bluesky

It's like 2008 in here today.

Landscape format in acrylics on canvas. View out to a dark deep blue sea with darker uneven strip of foreground land along bottom, and above the low horizon a sky mostly full of clouds, pink and purple above the horizon, then warm grey and fluffy above that with blazing orange in between, then higher up bigger gaps between clouds with bright yellow sky turning to pale blue as it gets higher then darker blue while either side larger clouds are deep red and dark grey with wisps of blazing orange and smokey grey. Signed bottom right in pale blue, Liam Daly

A #painting from a few years ago. "Sunset Walk", painted because I loved remembering evening walks with my dog where she and I would stare at the sky as it did its thing over the sea that went on forever. #SpeirGhorm #ArtYear #ColourADay #RedWed

Richard Ayoade with Jack Dee in Naples, and probably with other people elsewhere in Italy?

Nice. I know the very lake. Not the descendants so much.

Thanks very much.

Square format in acrylic on canvas. Against a background of rippling water are two adult mute swans and six cygnets. Angle of view is diagonally down on the water with no sky or land in the background, just water. The swans are all in a narrow group three-quarters of the way up the painting stretched out from both sides facing into the centre of the space between them. Four cygnets and one adult have their heads underwater, though you can see all of the adult's neck above water. The ripples of multiple shades of blues are in crisscrossing concentric circles from each of the birds expanding ultimately into one large series of concentric circles of soft painterly daubs, with the light blues suggesting reflections of sky, and the very dark blues suggesting reflections of foliage. Signed bottom right in red, Liam Daly

Have a goo at a #painting "Swan Family". Once upon a time I often used to walk out of my old studio down through the woods to the river, and watch a family of swans. This painting came after watching another swan family for hours one day when cycling in the west of Ireland. #Art #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear

I never saw it. At some point, a long time ago, I stopped consuming newly made things because I was already very familiar with all details. Ultimately, eventually, all the accurate information was out there so I presume any decent documentary would have used it.

As ever - that's never been me.

Landscape format in acrylics on mat board. Most of the picture is green, depicting a grassy slope going up to the top right corner, dropping to a high dip three quarters of the way up the painting near the left edge from which it begins rising again to the left. The green grassy slope is dotted with yellow and white flowers. In the foreground the flowers are clearly daffodils with yellow centres and pale yellow, almost white, outer sharply angular petals. Further back higher up the slope the flowers are a mixtures of different yellows from almost white through canary to orange. In mostly blues but some dark reds and dark green are flower stalks or individual blades of grass. The sky is white to very pale blue with a touch of yellow, and it's visible as a small wedge at the top between maybe ten spaced out tree trunks, that are mostly thin and predominantly blue. Peeping up from the far side of the hill are about half a dozen tops of pine trees. The painting was photographed before I added my signature.

Have a #painting. "Daffodils" was painted during one of my 24-hour live video streaming multi-painting things I did over 10 years ago. Right now it's the time of year where early in the mornings I get to watch the daffodils in the back garden wake up as I'm making tea. #art #SpeirGhorm

I stopped sharing this a long time ago, but given the British government seem to be dragging their feet on the Hillsborough Law, here's the post I wrote about this day 37 years ago when I went to an FA Cup Semi-Final:
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Landscape format in loose painterly garish colours on canvas. View down a town centre street of 2 and 3-storey buildings with shop fronts. The road angles from left to right. Street surface is pinks and purples. Footpath on far (left) side is orange, and roofs are slate of dark blues. Buildings on far side are blotches of pinks and orange with pale blue highlights and dark details for windows and shopfronts. The near right side has a red car and 2 blue cars parked in foreground, a footpath of pink and red, and dark outlines holding orange, green and blue thin slices of shopfronts and windows before the yellow gable of a mid-ground building. At far end of street is the front of a large 2-story building with a high blue roof holding two chimneys. Behind are hills of purple and green. The sky is an orangey-yellow. Signed top left, Liam Daly.

Have a #painting from County Kerry because for some reason I'm thinking good thoughts of Kerry. "Tralee, Rock Street" was painted because I found myself cycling up and down it, drinking tea on it, and getting punctures on it as well as drinking tea while repairing punctures. #SpéirGhorm #ArtYear