"My Life in a Nutshell"

The House from the Road

I live in a place called Ballingaddy, it translates as "The place of the thieves" but it was called that well before I ever got to Ireland so I don't take it personally.

The Fairy Fort, My Neighbours.

I can see the fort from the front garden and walk past it every time I walk the dog, It is a magical place.

My Kiln with buckets of Stoneware Glazes, the black one (Manganese Dioxide) did for my shelves, Runny mess!!!

As you can see, Quite tidy for me.

Shelves of glazes, slip colours and lotions and potions, Ignore the messy desk, I was working on the other one and tidied up onto this one. Ok! it's usually like this.

This is where all the experimenting takes place, I would love to show you the drawing area, but I can't find it.

Pallet chairs that I made last summer, comfortable, tigger loves them because they are the right height to stroke her from.

I'm a bit of a horder and picked up the pallets from college before they were thrown away.

Tigger! my old faithful hound. I thought that she was a millenium dog, but my daughter tells me she is only 2001, so it just goes to show how bad my memory is.

I had said that I listen to Classic Rock, and I do, but I have ecclectic  tastes to go with my eccentric personality and find I will listen to anything that isn't modern, (Rave, Rap or girl/boy bands).

I like earthy colours, blues and greens, but Turquoise is my favourite colour and I also love the bright primary colours used in Celtic Art, so there you are, (See above.)

The last place I lived before coming here was in Northumberland, as far away from London as you can get without being in Scotland. 

This is the third time I've been to Art College, The first time I was seventeen and was way to young and fell in love almost straight away, which meant rocking the night away and being to tired to go to college. The second time, I was going to go to either Leeds or Liverpool, but this didn't work out.

So this time is the charm.

I love living and studying here in Ireland and intend to become a citizen as soon as I am able to.

I hope that this helps you to understand me better.

Cheers, Steve