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    Good craic for nuts

    Illustration of a seal in a bath - 'Guilty Pleasures' in County Sligo, Ireland

    Yes we’ve been quiet but the past few months – quiet but busy. We’ve had a baby girl and packed up to shift ourselves (again) from Australia back to the west coast of Ireland. Oh, and we’re releasing a new collection of work…

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    April 20, 2018April 20, 2018 Ian
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    2017 Irish Surf Festival, Sligo, Ireland

    Shore Shots 2017 Irish Surf Festival

    Since 2013 Ireland has celebrated surfing at its annual Surf Festival, Shore Shots. Each year the Festival has improved on the last creating an experience that offers a rare opportunity to immerse yourself in the strange, evolving social and cultural seascape that is Surfing.

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    March 1, 2017March 17, 2017 Ian
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    Sligo Design Week

    Impressive; getting the bottle jack press in action

    Now only a week away Sligo Design Week (kudos to Denise Rushe, the darling from Starling, et al. for the hard yards put in behind it) has come to fruit with an exciting mix of exhibitions, talks, happenings and workshops. I was approached a little while back to see if I’d be keen to host a linocut printing workshop.

    Was I keen? I was frothing!

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    October 24, 2015December 2, 2015 Ian
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    And this little piggy…

    Shed studio complete with free-ranging chook yard out front

    It seems almost overwhelming trying to get things organised for the next month. We’re relocating out west to Sligo for another year. There, bombshell (for some) dropped. The shift is happening next weekend – from rolling tarmac to rolling fields. A cottage out on the raggedy peninsula in north County Sligo where, from the backyard, the magnificence of Dartry mountains loom up in the east and to the west the wild Atlantic yawns away in it’s glorious topaz vastness.

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    June 25, 2015December 2, 2015 Ian 7
  • Artwork

    Spot-colour on the Dunes tees

    Dunes Bar tshirt - 2-colour popping

    Sure, single-colour prints on t-shirts (black on white, white on red) can look great but getting two or more colours happening together can add depth and energy. Planning how the colours will overlap when screen-printed onto the shirts, the palette can be expanded and create a looser, more livelier image.

    Dunes Bar tshirt - 2-colour - Front print

    This week I’ve been messing about with colour separations for the t-shirt design for the Dunes Bar in Strandhill, Sligo (Ireland). It worked as a single colour but I wanted to see it jump in two. Playing with negative space has seemed to make the other colours pop and with only two colours, the print is still budgie (cheap cheap). Stoked with the above version and looking forward to getting one of these on.

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    April 3, 2014April 3, 2014 Ian 2
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