New residential Studio available @ Appleloft

The Loft Studio at the Appleloft is available to rent from the 1st December 2010.
The studio is a large purpose designed working space.
www.daft.ie/2907710










Entrance area 'Old Kitchen'






Kitchen/living area







Bedroom



View from bed facing East

WWOOFER's at the Appleloft

This year was the first time I became a host with www.wwoof.ie and it was a wonderful experience and I look forward to being a wwoofer myself. I met great people from all over the place, learned loads and got massive amount of work done. Thank you to wwoof Ireland and all the wwoofers.





Julia and Josephine started the wwoofing experience with a massive clear out of the garage and front garden.
















Marion and Flavien continued the clear out and repaired the wall and prepared the windows for the new porch.












Cecille and her partner dug drains and built a shed.














Ora worked with John, between the two of them they raised the porch from foundations from the window sills. Amazing job.

Gesso Sculpture

A sculpture made from gesso which was painted onto perspex and peeled off when dry. Thin strands of copper wire where laid into the gesso when it was still wet.

A journey in traditional gesso with Denise Clarke

Making a batch of rabbitskin glue, some will be used at once and the rest frozen. Not the nicest smelling stuff when it goes off. As I use traditional gesso (Rabbitskin glue and chalk) as a medium I need to make enough rabbitskin to finish the series of paintings if I want to prevent cracking as the layers are built up.

Boards cut, sanded and ready for first coat of glue.



Glued and drying

Five to eight layers of gesso are put on the boards before I start painting.

Never spent so much time watching and waiting for stuff to dry. This is why I use acrylic paint, the additional drying time needed for oils would make this process even longer.

Denise Clarke @ The Appleloft

Both rabbitskin glue and gesso are used when warm.
Wonderful work for the winter

Headland
Work in progress

Headland Ink, paint and gesso 28x28cm