Drawing on the City

Grand Canal Basin

I grew up in an older Dublin which is now fast disappearing and being replaced with block after block of glass, steel and concrete. Some parts of the new city are better than others, like the newly build Brew Dog building at the end of the quays near the Dublin Docklands and Grand Canal Basin.

 

 

Grand Canal Basin

Interior of Brewdog and the View across the river Liffey to the new Central Bank building

 

 

 

Drawing on Ulysses and the city for inspiration

These sketchbook mixed media drawings are quite textured and gritty.  They depict a rather shabbier older Dublin, full of faded grandeur and character, a Joycean Dublin.
I grew up in this older city which is now fast disappearing and being replaced with block after block of souless glass, steel and concrete monstrosities. It makes me mad and sad at the same time.

 

Do You have a Cheese Sandwiche?

Where is the Ormonde Hotel

Robert Emmet

Hibernia Holles Sreet Hospital

Burtons of Duke Street

Bookshop Duke Street

A Cheese Sandwiche