Perrylane Blog

Covid 19 - Corona Virus Painting Due to unprecedented lock down I found myself painting again this is a piece inspired by what is on everyone's mind also I would never have painted at all with out this lock down !  The original design coming from a 3d model and render I created - I like my virus's shape is irregular not like the various clips and videos on the news backdrops that make it look regular and geometric more like pollen under an electron microscope. I did think about the shape and light a lot , I took liberty with the colours very modern and harsh. This and my last painting were painted on a hand stretched canvas  - these had been sitting around for 15 years , sad really it took till now to use them.

This music makes me think so I added it to the blog post - I found it on Youtube - NIN is the band and Trent Reznor the artist. I Watched this song the day after watching the Eurosong final contest in Sweeden and was thinking of how different this music is to what was on that show. Alien almost to what Europeans think generally is a good song. This started me thinking. As I was saying this is way better then all the Eurosongs in my opinion but it would do poorly in the competition - its like really great photography or art being unrecognizable to contemporaries for the most part. I don't think Ireland is nurturing its talent properly. Great writers of the past bring people from all round the world to Writiers Week in Listowel , hopefully one day we will have hundreds of thousands of visitors to the national gallery to see our world class painters , sculptures and photographers - people that clearly see reality for what it is and can express it in an artful way. Not pretentiou