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Sponge Drops

 Painting  Sponge drops Local Bakery here in Tralee Co. Kerry Ireland  O' Mahonys Make these famous little delights with fresh cream coloured icing and super light fluffy sponge cake. Truly worthy of a still life painting  Acrylic on canvas by P.Woods 2022  in 2023 I painted a second image with the same subject - different lighting and slightly bigger  2023

The nature of opinion on art and the dangers of not having one.

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...

Ladies Day Listowel Races

Click Here for 2013 ladies day photos by Paul Woods paulwoods@perrylane.org  CLICK  Here are my photos from Ladies day Listowel 2012 All images can be purchased in full resolution from ladies day for nominal fee of 5euro to webmaster@perrylane.org   paypal account - through paypal  give the the number of the image and you email address - to paulwoods@perrylane.org   If you want to order prints directly from me please feel free to contact me. Or else just enjoy the gallery for free. CLICK  Here are my photos from Ladies day Listowel