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Guerrillas by Seamus Deane

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Seamus Deane’s beautiful poem probably derives from the experience of a child in the port city of Derry, encountering the foreign sailors and witnessing the city’s response to them.

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Arcadian Landscape Sun – After Jan Willem Pieneman

Whilst on residency in Rome I made a series of Indian ink on Fabriano paper drawings. This series of drawings stemmed from a love of Nicolas Poussin’s painting ‘Et in Arcadia ego’. The body of work is based on Arcadian landscape painting, landscapes created during the 17th and 18th century, which sought to illustrate an ideal landscape recalling Arcadia, a legendary place in ancient Greece known for its quiet pastoral beauty. Throughout

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