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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I just watched the first episode (second one Sunday morning or whenever you like on #iplayer ) So so proud of our Wonderful🎶☺️ daughter Naomi! Spectacular programme, and so grateful to #GarethMalone for being such a warm, encouraging, supportive teacher 🩵

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

These 2 (70cm sq) are done I think. Drawn from ideas and memories of old ruins, fragments of buildings, stones and markings on islands and promontories. Excavations, history, habitations. Remembering also my visit to the stones of #CeideFields Neolithic settlement in County Mayo

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The two blue ones have changed a lot! Flattened, simplified, paler, pastel, softer. Perhaps a bit boring? Let’s see tomorrow #painting #form #process #layers #coldwaxmedium #pink #errigal #donegal

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Moved them around - click on image to see all 3 Blue ones now have more pink/less black - new image tomorrow in daylight #painting #donegal #errigal #process #studio #workinprogress

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I hope he’s right 🤞🌎

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

open.substack.com/pub/appletur... Such a calm encouraging beautiful gem of a piece, thank you 🩵

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to find our way through – 🎵

on listening for a new way of life

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Some graphite marks added this morning, with light from the skylight playing havoc! I think the bigger painting finished now, and my thumbprint marked with my initials. #studio #painting #errigal #Donegal #coldwaxmedium

Messy studio with strong sunlight shafts from a Westerly skylight. Wooden planked walls with a sloping ceiling. A large painting on canvas stapled to the wall, works in progress on paper on the right hand wall and two more square canvases on easels

A mainly orange painting, with a yellow rectangle at the top and a pale blue mountain silhouette across the centre. A yellow thumbprint at bottom right with my initials ‘LD’ scored into the paint

Detail of the central mountain motif, in pale blue/grey over orange. Scraffito marks

Detail of initials ‘LD’ signature scored into a yellow paint thumbprint

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

In the #studio at last. All works in progress. Tentatively making some starts #Donegal #painting #coldwaxmedium #oils #holes #squeegee #wip

Paintings, with loads of orange and some bluey grey, on paper and canvas, mostly fixed onto a wooden, paint splattered wall, in my studio

An elderly white woman, (me), with windswept grey/blonde hair, wearing clear framed specs, and a red woollen sweater, in front of a diamond panes, red painted half door

A turquoise and lilac abstract square painting, with a small area of mottled red and yellow marks at top left

A square abstract painting with an orange centre, with a blocked in surround of pale grey, and a border of orange and black

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Happy St Patrick’s Day 🍀 🇮🇪 #Kathmandu #Nepal 2014 💚

A bright green pint of liquid on a white saucer, with a small bowl of yogurt. A brick house with a palm tree beyond and below

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m looking forward to being back in #Donegal at the #weekend. Spring is always a bit later there, because it’s so far North and our home on #CruitIsland is very exposed. But the light is amazing! Here’s a poem from last year from my #Substack : open.substack.com/pub/lizdoyle...

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Blue Spirit calls

Spring /April

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Bees 🐝 bees 🐝 bees 🐝 Care for them please 🧡🖤

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Love this 🩵 especially the cromlech 🙏🏻

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Another #poem from my #substack From December in #Andalusia Not very seasonal, but you can have a #bonfire in the #Spring I enjoyed getting in the #garden here (#Wales), got my first #spuds in (before #StPatricksDay as I am heading over to #Ireland at the w/e) open.substack.com/pub/lizdoyle...

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Bonfire Soup

How to write a poem

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A delicious selection of sustainable gifts, just ordered a beautiful sari covered sketch book from Paper High (for myself ☺️ ) #sustainable #gifts

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A meditation on a lifetime of #colour From my #substack ‘lizdoylewritestoo’ #poem #poetry #list #painter paint #memories open.substack.com/pub/lizdoyle...

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Rainbow

An artist’s life

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Meri Pas Blanquer @meritadocta.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Every tree is a song Here is the majesty of this land, dry and yet so alive, that it might be expected inhabited by the gods, in their silence. We would like to share with these trees their secret, the rhythm of their beauty, their absolute being. Poem and work by Etel Adnan.

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I’m on Substack I think I’ll share links here, to my poems there! Starting with an early one from 2022 #poems #poem #poet #directorschair #metaphor #old #couple open.substack.com/pub/lizdoyle...

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On finding two directors chairs at the back of the shed

Fourth Quarter

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stevew69.bsky.social @stevew69.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

1100 years old , has to Have props to keep the largest branches up , Sherwood Forest , Nottingham.

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Hahaha 😂 Love this so much 🐛 #theveryhungrycaterpillar for real ☺️ (book by Eric Carle for those that don’t know ) Thank you @wrenandbee.bsky.social ☺️

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#Florence 🩵 This time last year! What a brilliant trip! #Uffizi #Duomo #landscapephotography #urbanscape I love how the Duomo pops out at you! Like an unexpected surprise

An Italian street scape from a high viewpoint, mostly looking at the backs of stone and cream painted walls of tall medieval buildings, with red tile roofs uh
The nearest and mid view buildings are the Uffizi Gallery. A feature in the right third of the image is a shiny vertical aluminium or steel pipe.
In the distance the curved sectional roof and uppermost storey of the Duomo Cathedral peeps out at us over the horizon.
A crenellated tall bell tower reaches into the grey sky on the right

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

So delighted to have found some #broadbean #plants in my local market in #Abergavenny 🩵 Shifting my focus to the #garden , #Spring and being outside Next up is the garden centre for some bags of manure and #peatfree compost to prepare my already dug bed First early #spuds are already #chitting 🥔

Two trays, in a cardboard tomato box, of chinky Green leaved broad beam plants, on the table at a cafe, while I had my lunch today 🌱

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

#Circles There’s something about circles, or nearly circles (#enso), #spirals and roughly circular enclosed spaces, stone or steel, natural or man made ⭕️ I have often painted circular shapes and scraped circular marks Here are a few of my own, and a #RichardSerra sculpture at SFMOMA from 2016

Rectangular mainly yellow painting, on wood panel, with a central circular shape, in purples and dark blues, made with many interwoven and overlapping marks, scrapes, and smudges.
The right hand curve of the circle fades away and appears to ‘fall off’ the edge.
Inspired by the making of the ‘ensō’ with a single brushstroke, this diverges from that simple idea by being made of a multitude of nearly straight marks forming the circular shape

The corner of my studio with a right angle of wooden plank walls. Two large canvases, one on each wall. Both have a dark, nearly black background, with a white border (left for stretching over stretcher boards)
The smaller, left canvas features a central truncated circle, in greenish grey, containing a yellow arch, with a scores triangle within that, on a grey base. Within the triangle is a roughly painted grey circle, a black circle within that, and finally a central yellow circle.
The right painting is nearly 3 times the size at c.1m x 3m. Mostly a background of black and dark grey, painted over dark green. There is a nearly circular, yellow shape, left of centre, containing a series of grey, black and then yellow circles, like an eye (or a dartboard or archery target)
Above this concentric circle there is an ‘eyebrow’ shape in yellow and a vertical mark in green

A strong light shaft from the skylight splashed across the scene

Two very small, black framed abstract paintings hanging on a white painted rough stone wall, to the right of a window, with greenery outside.
The two paintings are each about 10x8 cm with a white mount.
The top one is a white egg shape, with the pointed end uppermost, and the left side cropped, on a pink background, with smudged black outlines partially defining the shape.
The lower painting is a roughly rectangular white shape against a pink and white background, again with a smudged black partial outline
These two paintings are part of my series of ‘Tinies’ at Hambly&Hambly gallery in Fermanagh, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland

Two huge connected concentric circles in rusted steel fill the foyer of a white painted modern art gallery, with two walls of glass, and stairs down in the foreground
#Serra at SFMOMA. San Francisco 2016

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thanks Emma for this lovely soothing image 🐚🩵

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Donegal 🇮🇪 A view of #Errigal in snow from #cruitisland #landscapephotography #mountain #sevensisters #painting #change The photo is from our home, across the water The painting is called ‘Changeable Weather’ shown at the Regional Cultural Centre inLetterkenny in my show ‘Outside In ‘ in 2020

A winter scene of a view of a snow clad mountain range (the Aghlas including Errigal).
In the foreground, a rough grassy strip in front of a low drystone wall.
The #landscape beyond the wall features coarse heather, gorse and reed covered rocky ground, a patch of sandy sea at low tide, and ground gently rising in rolling hills, to the far mountains.
Cloudy grey sky
February in Donegal

A white mountain apparently floats in a green and pink world. The lower portion of the canvas painted in black and ochre.
The surface is scored with deep marks and scrapes through the oil and wax (coldwax medium) surface
At lower right there is a small thumb print in a pale contrasting colour, scored through with the initials LD
‘’Changeable Weather” Liz Doyle 2019

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Laura Shaw Quilts @laurashawquilts.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Hello #quiltsky 👋👋 I’m a Quiltmaker from Portland Oregon making improv quilts from recycled materials. Hard to think about starting over on a new platform but IG is just a mess of ads and senseless reels. Curious to see how the community develops over here.

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Crocuses! In a mass across a grassy bank #crocus #spring #abergavenny #Wales #Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #flowers #park #LindaVistaGarden #Monmouthshire

Pale purple flowers, open in the spring sunshine, with orange stamens

Starry purple crocuses open in the sunlight, with orange stamens, spread across a grassy bank

Crocuses growing close to the grass, with orange stamens

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Liz Doyle @liz-doyle.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’m my studio in 2020. I made one really huge, scary painting. I think it was called ‘shadow’. It was bigger than my painting wall (ie. more than 2x3 metres) In September of that year it was stretched, framed and hung at the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny, Donegal #scary #abstractart

Large abstract painting, partly in shadow. A menacing, spider or crab-like black shape on a white and ochre background, with strong loose brushwork. To the right of the main firm, another similar shape, cropped, appears to fall off the edge of the canvas
Menacing.

View of my studio, with a wood burning stove in the foreground, fire burning.
To the left of the image a large painting is stapled to the wooden wall. The painting folds over at the top as it is too large to fit on the 3 metre section of wall. The visible part of the painting shows a seemingly menacing dark, crab-like shape, and a background of white, yellow ochre and green brushstrokes

Me and my husband @Malzer.blsky.social wearing black face masks, standing in front of my Shadow painting

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Joy Grows @joygrows.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Almost time to welcome crocus.. 💜🦋💜🎨 #Purple #FebruArty #FlowerPhotography

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