Detterling on this blessed Feast Day of Saint Polycarp I offer you the following olive branch: I hereby offer to remove from this blog all posts relating to Myrtle Thornberry R.I.P. on the condition that you post on here a full and unequivocal apology for all the hurt caused to so many by The Clique.
I can't be fairer tan that.
Let's put all animosity behind us. I wish to get back to the good old days of 2005 and all that banter and badinage and rip-roaring, rollicking good fun.
GENE
Portrait of Bernard Leach ... Tony O'Malley
Portraits of the artist's parents ... Tony O'Malley
Tony
O'Malley HRHA
Artist Bio
Tony O’Malley
(1913-2003) was a self-taught painter from Callan in County Kilkenny who
developed a passion for art from a young age, painting for pleasure. Though he
started his career in banking, a battle with illness forced him to turn his
full attention towards art, eventually taking it on as a profession.
He spent some time in St Ives in Cornwall where he took strong influence from
the St Ives artistic community. When his close friend Peter Lanyon was killed
in a plane crash, O’Malley dedicated many of his paintings to his memory and
took on a more sombre palette. It wasn’t until he married and travelled to the
Bahamas around a decade later that his work became characterised by a use of
bolder colours.
The artist was elected a Saoi of Aosdána and the Irish Museum of Modern Art
held a major retrospective of his
Another favourite painting...
40 A man with leprosy[a] came to him and begged him on his knees, “If you are willing, you can make me clean.”
41 Jesus was indignant.[b] He reached out his hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” he said. “Be clean!” 42 Immediately the leprosy left him and he was cleansed.
43 Jesus sent him away at once with a strong warning: 44 “See that you don’t tell this to anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.” 45 Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.
