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

 

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