Frank with 100 buckets of rain and tears 

Happy Christmas to all

"it does not prevent me from having a terrible need of, shall I say the word - of religion - then I go outside in the night to paint the stars ....'
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo

“when you do something , you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself’ (from Zen Mind, Beginners Mind)

"To be an artist

 you have to make yourself vulnerable

 in exactly the ways

 that most people spend their lives 

trying to avoid" 

Michael Craig- Martin

X Berg Berlin

X X X with the one and only

"Suffering to know things, 

dying to feel things,

 fearing our end, 

loving in spite of it all. 

Thats pretty much the whole of it"

Patrick Graham 

                                               Gulls 

Doon 1 (Photographs by Maurice Fitzpatrick)

Drawings in the dark