Vincent Keeling's Art Blog

This is a painting of The Public Theatre, one of the many beautiful buildings on the inner square of Trinity College in the heart of Dublin city. Or rather I should say there are two paintings, one little and one large, or medium sized at least.  I always love strolling through Trinity’s grounds whenever I get a chance. There’s just something about the sense of history and culture that seems embedded into the bones of the buildings. Something reassuring and timeless. But the evening that inspired these works a particular time and occasion. It was a little celebratory engagement party...

This is a new painting of mine of Fleet Street, in Dublin City. It’s worth noting that it’s a view on the quieter end between Westmoreland St and D’Olier St, rather than the madness of Fleet Street in Temple Bar. I actually prefer this stretch. A favourite pub of mine, Bowes is tucked in on the right under the clock there, and then another well known boozer called Doyles just beyond it. Again a bar I’ve spent a little bit of time in years past.  Now the lighting might seem a tad unusual, bathed in red as it is, but...

Ok, this is the official Christmas message! The first thing I wanted to mention today is the Limited Edition Prints, which at Christmas might just provide a solution for that that tricky present you have to buy. Instead of highlighting any particular ones I just did a little screenshot of my website print page, so you can just click into this if you fancy browsing through the many options there. After that I wanted to do something a little different with talk of the ghosts of Christmas paintings past.  And what's that all about you might ask? Well I guess it's my way...

Hope everyone is well out there. Now if the ever-present TV and Radio Ads  are anything to go by, we are surely barrelling toward Christmas. I'll try not to overdo the messages myself, so maybe just one more after this one. As for today I've two new rose paintings for you, or rather one genuinely new, and one new-ish. This will make sense in a bit. Oh, yeah I should also mention that if anyone is waiting for any discounts for the Christmas season, or indeed beyond, this isn't in the planning at all. If anything, I'm trying to resist pushing...

Hope everyone is well out there. I know I really should have some scary themed stuff for you today, being Halloween and all, but alas I'm not that organised. And, in truth my marketing team consists of small often distracted sub-department of my addled arty-brain. In other words, far from optimised. Okay, things have thankfully been busy with me of late; a succession of portrait commissions, with another just started. And also several paintings sold including some roses, a cityscape and Elvis Presley no less, who has now migrated back to America, which is probably a more fitting home for...