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A Sketch Tour of The Irish and Welsh Coasts: Part 1

[By Róisín Curé around the Irish coast] Urban sketchers get the best gigs...this year I have been hired to sketch some of the loveliest places you can think of. I've been sent on five on-location sketching trips to stunning places: the one I'd like to show you here is part of the Bluefish project, a joint Irish-Welsh scientific project funded by the EU.

In August, and over the last ten days, I travelled around the Irish coast from Dingle in Co. Kerry south to Kilmore Quay in Co. Wexford, then north to Howth in Co. Dublin, stopping at many places along the way to discover martime businesses and the people who ran them. I had a fabulous partner-in-crime throughout all of this, a beautiful, funny woman from Co. Kerry called Sharon, who had designed the itinerary and planned who we were going to see. We met for the first time a few days before the project began, and immediately knew we were going to get along famously.

Here are a few of the gorgeous places in Ireland we visited. More in my next post.

I sketched the above aboard a mussel dredger of the coast of West Cork, sailing in sunshine past Jeremy Irons' very own castle tower near Baltimore on the southwest tip of Ireland...

The man on the left is Colin. On the right is Andrew, whose grandfather laid the ropes Andrew is now hauling out of the sea. We had a hard time finding Colin, despite the GPS lady's best efforts. "Rerouting..." was something we heard her say rather a lot. Sharon told Colin he was very hard to find. "Maybe that's the way we like it," he said, but as well as being beautiful Sharon is very charming and a hard worker- she insisted on helping to pack bags of mussels on board -  and by the end of the session he sent us each away with a bag of mussels for supper.

This was a stunning place beside a deep turquoise seawater lake, connected to the open ocean by the narrowest of inlets, sketching brightly coloured kayaks...It's Lough Hyne near Baltimore in West Cork. That's Sharon sitting perched on the rock.

Sharon's job was to interview the stakeholders in the businesses we encountered, and ask them if they had any feelings as to how climate change might affect them in years to come.

(Turned out it has already affected the majority of them. One crab fisherman in Co. Kerry said he didn't think it was a thing. Most people said they didn't have the education to know either way, that it could be natural cycles, or it could be something more serious. The more educated ones had all the answers. These three facts in themselves were interesting.)

The next one is on a beach in Co. Kerry, called Inch Strand. I knew I had to be fast with this one as the clouds were rolling in across the bay, the top of the hill on the left disappearing fast. There was a surf lesson going on - the little kids all wore green t-shirts - and it reminded me of my first days hitting the waves (I still hit the waves, but in the wrong direction, usually).

This is from Kilmore Quay in Co. Wexford. I felt very sorry for these beautiful animals. One crab managed to escape from its crate, landed with a thwack on the concrete floor, losing an arm in the process. It scuttled off to a corner but its hours were numbered either way. It was one of those "I think I'll become a vegan" days. Sharon didn't have quite the same emotion as me. For a joke, she thrust a lobster in the face of a burly worker, big claws open, you know the kind of lobster-factory joke, but dropped the poor creature. "I felt like such an eejit," she said. Having said that, we are both softies for animals, especially seagulls, and not only did we love watching the antics of the sea life but were able to buy Cool Stuff from the many souvenir shops we came across. Sharon went home with fridge magnets and things to dangle from rear-view mirrors; I bought a key ring or several. Chip-stealing seagulls, felt penguins in life jackets, articulated crabs, little brass anchors, mugs, hats - shop owners got very excited when they saw us approaching.

(The shells were already frozen when I sketched them but the crustaceans were all alive, which I think is obvious from the drawings. I'm really not joking about the vegan thing.)

In total we travelled to about 30 locations in Ireland and Wales and I made 37 ink and watercolour sketches of people at work, whether providing food, fun or fuel from the sea. Between three trips around the Irish and Welsh coasts and a workshop in Kent in between, I've been very busy, and I am still scanning the most recent sketches from the Wales leg of the trip. But if you'd like to read more, I will put them all up on my website in the days to come, and post more here too.

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