Fionnuala Nolan

Volumes of memories

Quick sketches of places and moods, from travels in Ireland and overseas, that inform and inspire larger works.

Travel notebooks

'I take sketchbooks and notebooks everywhere. Often, they are the starting points for larger works, but I also enjoy them just as a record of my travels, my thoughts and feelings about journeys, places and times too.'

Beara Peninsula

Travels along the south west coast of Ireland between Kenmare and Bantry Bay

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Through the unknown, unremembered gate”

from Little Gidding, TS Eliot

Cill Rialaig notebook

From Fionnuala's residency in 2022

Bullock Harbour

Sketches from Sandycove

Sketching

Watercolours, acrylics, pastels.

Comares, Spain

From a Spanish painting holiday

Wexford watercolours

Coastal and country sketches