ireland & morocco
DRAWINGS
Richard McLean
ireland & morocco
DRAWINGS
Richard McLean
PREFACE In September and October 2003, I travelled to Ireland with my sister Jodie to visit my brother Brad. It was a wonderful trip and during that time I feverently started sketching. Unlike previous excercises for exhibitions, these images had no pretence for a mandate, or purpose, just simply getting back to my roots encompassing the joy of image making. On a total whim thanks to my beautiful friend ‘Freshy’, I ended up in Morocco for a week. During the whole time, my mission, as in Ireland, was to do one drawing I liked a day. They arose at the oddest of moments and circumstances, encompassing figures, portraits, streetscapes, anything that caught my eye and had woven itself into my travel experiences. Here in this short collection of drawings is the result - ‘30 drawings in 30 days, Ireland and Morocco’. I hope you enjoy these images as much as I enjoyed creating them. Richard McLean.
IRELAND
life changes, will not be still, just down the street it...
st stephen’s green, dublin
drawing is thirsty work! o’neill’s pub, suffolk street
an interesting alleyway
dinner at a loud resturaunt
dublin streetscape
port town at arron islands
aran islands
a view of trinity college from it’s gardens
fibreglass cows were used to decorate for charity
study II of a homoerotic statue, powerscourt gardens
study 1 of a homoerotic statue, powerscourt gardens
backyard at brad’s
beer o’clock! suffolk street
don’t get your dress dirty...st patricks cathedral
courtyard of powerscour gardens, wicklow
the river liffey as seen from burger king, statue of daniel o’connel, o’connel street
galway harbour
on the road again...
cafe scene, mary street, off grafton street.
portrait of Brad, watching ‘the talented mr ripley’.
galway pub
first impressions from hotel wondow, agadir
MOROCCO
getting swooned by spice sellers.
bathers at the hotel pool
driving up the west atlantic coast with fiona
town square, agadir
nomad selling distilled syrup from local nuts off the local trees
high noon outside oasis hotel, agadir
rural area, if only you could see the red ‘coke’ signs.
street scene, essouria
junkie bridge, the ‘surfers paradise’ of morocco, where clothes would be left out by the homeless to dry
habib, hustler, tourguide.
fishing village, essouria
white-legged fiona and stonned jerry by the pool
this boy couldn’t write his own name, so a passerby helped out.
zohra, western looking woman from agadir
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