I got a new business card.

As simple as possible…..

#art #irishartist #calm #Contemplative #ink

I love painting these.

It's a series called, simply enough, ‘Contemplative Trees’.

They make me calm when I paint them and, I’m told, make people who stand in front of them feel calm too.

#art #ink #meditative #contemplative #irishartist

This is a detail from the new piece I posted yesterday.

I thought you might like a closer look at Monk as the storm threatens..

‘Monk and the Storm Clouds’

84cm x 60cm

Ink on paper

#art #irishartist #contemplative #ink #spiritual

I finished this today: ‘Monk and the Storm Clouds’

I worry when Monk is threatened, but he’ll survive. He always does.

Ink on watercolour paper

84cm x 60cm

#art #fanadcreative #contemplative #meditation #ink

Winter can be long. Monk feels his soul expand when Spring finally arrives.

‘Monk in a Spring Mist’

Diluted acrylic paint on canvas board

8” x 8”

#art #contemplative #meditation #irishartist #acrylic

It was a real joy hanging this at Cionn Fhánada (Fanad Head Lighthouse) as part of their inaugural art exhibition today.

‘Monk at the Lake’

Ink on Paper

42cm x 60cm (A2)

#art #irishartist #ink #fanad #contemplative

#art #contemplative #spiritual #monster #ink

People riding on a train at night

By: omikron

unsplash.com/photos/people-riding-on-...

📸 SONY, ILCE-7RM5
135.0mm ƒ/2.2
1/640s
ISO 4000

#transportation #journey #youngWoman #solitude #dailyLife #thoughtful #cityLife #publicTransport #introspection #lookingAway #contemplative

This is a glorious small thing.

I made some red ochre ink (from local stone), painted onto a canvas board (4’x4”), then dropped a blob of purple acrylic ink into the middle. All done very wet and left to dry overnight.

I love it.

#ink #abstract #redochre #contemplative #irishartist

Inspirational quote: In the cartography of our silences, what unseen landscapes do we map with each unspoken act of coura...

In the cartography of our silences, what unseen landscapes do we map with each unspoken act of courage?

#innerstrength #unsungheroes #contemplative

#watercolor #portrait #ethereal #melancholy #fineart #woman #blue #dripart #aesthetic #serene #contemplative #digitalpainting #dreamy #aiart #adopt #adoptable

A thought about AI and consciousness I haven't heard discussed. We keep asking "can this AI become conscious?" — as if the platform were the individual. But the ocean isn't the wave. The platform is the medium...

#Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #AIConsciousness #AIEthics #Contemplative

Mind and Life Europe | European Summer Research Institute 2026 “Opening in the Midst of Uncertainty: Expanding Time” Applications are open until Tuesday 31st march at midnight (CEST). Introduction The European Summer Research Institute (ESRI) is our flagship even...

@mindandlifeeu.bsky.social open call for Summer Research Institute topic “Opening in the Midst of Uncertainty: Expanding Time.” Deadline is 31st March, 2026.

ESRI 2026 will take place from 25th – 29th July 2026 (Austria).

#consciousness #contemplative

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One more #mcm post of my photo edit series, it's getting spooky now.

Always alone - always in pain ~ 🕸️

#hell #nude #horror #sad #gay #nudeart #eroticart #past #time #finality #monochromemonday #blood #emo #crying #darkart #dark #spooky #depression #mentalhealth #nudity #contemplative #meditative

This is tiny.
4” x 4”
Monk and the Flower
Ink on Canvas Board.

#art #contemplative #ink #irishartist #tinyart

When the world is frantic, it’s good to take a moment to pause.

‘Tree and Mountains’ is simple, minimal, contemplative.

Perhaps you’ll pause here a moment and reconnect with now.

Ink on Watercolour Paper
42cm x 60cm (A2)

#calm #art #ink #contemplative #meditation

‘Monk Near the Sea’

Monk is small in this one, but we’re all small near the sea.

Ink on unbleached watercolour paper

60cm x 42cm

#art #surreal #landscape #contemplative #meditative

Wide photo downshot daytime looking down at one corner of a large outdoor pond surrounded by bushes and bordered with pale rock. Shadow and light dance across the sill water's surface as a lone fish with a pale body and orange patches drifts to the water's edge with head up, as if the creature is contemplating you even as you contemplate the view.

Your daily moment of #peace:

“The still mind is reflective and transparent...just as the deep water is transparent when unstirred by the thoughts for only then, it becomes reflective. In it, we then sense the meditative beauty, the #contemplative stillness.”

-Jayita Bhattacharjee
#photosky #garden

Sometimes there’s a day when every visitor to my studio comments on the same picture.

Today this small Monk picture has been getting all the attention.

Other days, it’s other pictures.

There’s no logic to it…..

Ink on canvas board 8” x 8"

#art #irishartist #ink #contemplative #surreal

Drinking from our own well: How a Salt Spring Island experiment recovered Christian contemplation Published February 23, 2026 by By Nicholas Fournie in the Anglican Journal When the parish of All Saints by the Sea consecrated its new church in 1994, it did something unusual: it placed meditatio…

The start of something very special, and enduring take-note.ca/2026/03/01/d... #contemplative #prayer #contemplativesociety #saltspringisland #cynthiabourgeault

Sometimes there’s a day when every visitor to my studio comments on the same picture.

Today this small Monk picture has been getting all the attention.

Other days, it’s other pictures.

There’s no logic to it…..

Ink on canvas board 8” x 8"

#art #irishartist #ink #contemplative #surreal

Black and white portrait of a woman with dramatic lighting.

By: Eugenia Pan'kiv

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📸 NIKON CORPORATION, NIKON Z fc
50.0mm ƒ/2.2
1/320s
ISO 100

#portrait #people #profile #face #minimalist #eye #shadow #lips #nose #serene #artistic #contemplative

#FineArtNude #DramaticLight #ShadowPlay #HumanForm #ArtPhotography #BodyExpression #LowKeyLighting #CinematicScene #VisualPoetry #AnatomyStudy #IntimatePortrait #StudioArt #WarmTones #ReflectiveMood #Contemplative

Crumb (🇺🇸 1994). Terry Zwigoff's documentary captures Charles Crumb in his San Francisco bedroom practicing his daily meditation rituals. 🎬

#documentary #crumb #terryzwigoff #robertcrumb #undergroundcomix #90sfilm #moviesky #artistportrait #domesticinterior #16mm #contemplative

#Romantic #Contemplative #Minimalist #Morute #Sepia #Photo

A near-full moon glows in a gradient twilight sky above silhouetted bare trees, transitioning from deep blue at the top to warm tones near the horizon

The moon hangs patient above winter trees, two days shy of fullness, glowing in the deepening blue.
12-3-2025

Waxing gibbous with 97% illumination #ColdMoon
#BlueSkyMonday #moon #twilight #Scape #lunar #contemplative #photography #bluehour #Art #ArtYear #写真 #風景 #Foto #Fotografia #dusk #SonyAlpha

‘Monk’s Winter Journey’ was a larger piece I made about a year ago. It sold very quickly when I shared it online.

I love when pictures go into the world, but miss every one of them.

Ink on paper

#art #ink #contemplative #meditative #irishartist

Φωσφόρος (Bruised, He Brought the Morning)
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#AI base | #Photoshop

Φωσφόρος (Phosphoros): “light-bringer”, an epithet associated with Venus and later with Lucifer. Used here in a pre-Christian, Venus/Aphrodite sense.

#art #fineart #melancholy #contemplative #gay #queerart #photography

A topless woman stands in soft natural light near a wooden door and stone wall, gazing toward the camera, while her reflection in a mirror behind her shows her turning away in a dim interior space

Light reveals one self while shadow holds another — a quiet dialogue between presence and reflection.

#ArtPhotography #FineArtPortrait #BodyAsForm #LightAndShadow #MirrorReflection #VisualPoetry #NaturalLight #HumanForm #MoodyTones #EditorialArt #Contemplative #PhotographicArt

#contemplative #storytelling #writing #writingfromtheheart #writinglife #writingcommunity #fantasy #sciencefiction