Ag cur tine síos go buan is á fadú go géar

Ag cur tine síos go buan is á fada go géar (Kindling the fire to make the night long)

This is the second line of the well-known traditional Donegal song “Tá mé ‘ mo shuí” ( ó d’éirigh an ghealach aréir…). I often sang this song but never put it on an album. This is a painting of a turf fire that had just been re-kindled. It was the only one in the exhibition not taken directly from the natural world. Some would argue that turf is the natural world but this image is most definitely an in-door one.