The “A Year on the Prom” Exhibition in the Connacht Tribune Print Works has been selected as an event for Galway City Culture Night 2016 on 16th September. See link to Culture Night Galway City for more details. Geraldine will be hosting a reception and giving a talk on her execution of the Prom project at 7.00pm in the Print Works Gallery.

Every August the mackerel come into the bay and provide great fishing for locals along the Prom. Last year they didn’t arrive and I had wanted to paint this annual tradition. Last evening, as the tide was coming in, there were quite a few fishermen who seemed to be catching some. I pitched the easel just east of Palmers Rock and started to paint. The sky was amazing and promised a great sunset. The colours changed constantly and, as the sun set, the pinks and salmons against