Blog Posts - Marina Wild

Tea with Kathleen

13/10/2015

A portrait that is also a sweet memento of all the cups of tea Kathleen and I had in the chalet. I lived there for almost seven years, and I met Kathleen the day after I moved in. It was the beginning of a wonderful friendship. She entered her ninth decade this year, but the painting isn't lying; she looks younger every time I see her and seems to have more energy than I do.

(The second photo shows the painting in its temporary home in our new house before Kathleen collected it. )

New exhibition

19/9/2015

Dagmar and I have another joint exhibition, this time in the Clifden Arts Festival. It's about the relationship between image and text. We are beside the tourist office, where Gannon Sports used to be. The exhibition will run until September 27. Opening times: 3-7pm weekends; Monday & Wednesday 2-5pm, Tuesday 2-4.30pm; Thursday: closed. Huge thanks to John Durning for having us, Paul Callanan for the great design, and to both of them for all their help!

Opening of Metaphorica

22/8/2015

We had a great night at our exhibition opening last week. Thank you to everyone who came and supported us. Special thanks to Margaret Nolan, Fionnuala Gallagher and Paul Callanan!

Metaphorica is an exhibition of paintings by the wonderful Dagmar Drabent and me and runs until September 15th upstairs in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway.

Coming soon...

19/7/2015

I am putting the finishing touches to the illustrations for the children's book by Amie Nolan Ryan. This has been such a lovely project to work on. The book will be hardcover, so we are playing around with ideas for the endpaper, a detail I am obsessed with. We cannot wait to see the end result!

New minis

8/7/2015

A new Long Walk mini canvas (10 x 10cm) commission - same picture, but different each time. The new minis are on deeper canvas, so instead of extending the painting onto the sides I paint the sides in one colour (this person wanted lilac, and it worked beautifully). More to follow!

Sketch to colour

29/6/2015

Original Jumbo drawings for sale

20/6/2015

Some of my original pencil drawings for the Jumbo books are now for sale in our Etsy shop!

Painting

14/6/2015

Four works-in-progress, featuring people and animals I know and actual places (1,2 and 4; 3 is an exception).

On the easels

30/5/2015

Jumbo at the Sligo Children's Book Festival

21/3/2015

Lionel and Conor

Lionel signing books (photo by Conor Gallagher)

Lionel and Marina (photo by Conor Gallagher)

A few pictures from Lionel's reading at the Sligo Children's Book Festival.

We had a room full of children (and adults, and beautiful paintings on the wall - this was The Model, which has a great collection, including one of the most significant public collections of works by Jack B Yeats), who had come to hear the tales of Jumbo the elephant. It was a lovely event and one of the few times a year the three of us who worked on the books (Lionel, Conor and I) get together. Lionel did a mixture of reading and storytelling, and the children got involved, answering his questions with impressive attention to detail.

A big Thank You to Emily from The Model for organising this event and for all her help!