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This is the first Irish landscape since I have painted since my return from India to Ireland. It is of a scene in our local Marlay Park in Rathfarnham, county Dublin. We are blessed to have such beautiful places. I felt so glad to be back home in Ireland with its 40 shades of green. This painting is on show at the Water Colour Society of Ireland\'s annual exhibition 2008.

I first became attracted to watercolour over 30 years ago on a painting holiday in Cornwall. I loved the immediacy and fluidity of the medium. When I painted the old rooftops of the quirky yet beautiful old buildings, colours ran together giving an organic feel to the moss and old slates. I felt like I'd discovered a magic colouring book! The watercolour captured the essence of my subjects in an ethereal way. Enchanted by the possibilities of creating a new, dream-like reality within my paintings, I developed my style with an emphasis on the effects I could achieve with Watercolour, by letting the paint and water form patterns in their own way. I love to break the old fashioned rules of the medium, pushing it to its limits. As...