This is a media that has always been used by my family.
My grandfather etched line illustrations for the Manchester Guardian and the Daily Mail.
My father has spent a lot of his life illustrating technical publications and has contributed many illustrations to ' The Dalesman' and similar publications.
I have often used it when illustrating for the 'Celtic' market, with quite an amount of success.
More recently though, I find myself increasingly called upon to design unique, one-off 'Celtic-Style' tattoos for young people who want to be that bit different.
Prints:
All of these line drawings are A4 landscape sized and printed on good quality white card.
They all have a white border around them to allow for mounting and framing ... unfortunately this does not show up on most of the thumbnails.
001. This beautiful little cottage on the Isle of Skye was still occupied when we saw it.
002. On the way out of Ballybunion, we stopped to examine this one. It had recently been occupied as it contained a chest-freezer. The remaining furniture was all painted in red gloss.
003. A sweet little kerry cottage, now sadly, just another holiday cottage.
004. Right at the edge of the sea, with a collapsing gable and half the roof gone; still occupied when we saw it !
005. A small cluster of rebuilt Scottish Blackhouses.
006. I forgot to note down where in Eire this little shepherd's rest was, but it was still in use ... by the sheep.
007. Typical of the abandoned villages of Co Mayo.
008. Nicely restored roadside cottages on the tourist route through Antrim.
009. An exposed burial site on the wild Burren.
010. A fabulous example of Connemara
stone-building.
011. Another Mayo famine cottage.
012. The last hiding place, at the edge of Culloden battlefield.