Ireland is a beautiful country, and there’s so much inspiration to be found for landscape painting As the land of my birth, I feel very comfortable taking off with a carload of oil painting supplies and pitching wherever the light takes me, preferably down a remote track with only birdsong and the occasional passing cows or sheep for company. The West of Ireland is particularly breathtaking, the barrenness of it allowing for freeness with the brush, but Wicklow on the East Coast is known as the Garden of Ireland, and that it is, very lush in comparison to the west. The challenges are the cold, the wind, the rain, the rapidly-changing light, and finding a good spot to park and set up when the beauty is crying out to be painted. Plein air painting in Ireland range from being highly frustrating to joyously fulfilling - never a dull moment to be sure…