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Botanical Art and Homewares designed and made in Leitrim, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

23/08/2026

field studies 🌱

odhrach bhallach & Peasair chapaill
devils-bit scabious & common vetch
oil pastel on paper

Fine art Giclée print
89cm x 96cm

limited edition fine art prints available on my website www.amorbotanicalart.com

It's now season, devil's-bit scabious, a flowering plant of the honeysuckle family here, along with common vetch it's flowering in our fields, verges and bogs at the moment. I adore this native wildplan as it plays a vital role in biodiversity late summer for our pollinators and is the main food plant for our marsh fritillary butterflies.

07/08/2026

field studies
flight path, friday

thinking about this thoughtful, collaborative project with artist Louisa Crispin

focusing on a small patch of meadow section as a I observed during the heatwave on 2021 making miniature studies of the wildplanrs and visiting pollinators, meadow browns, ringlets, small and large cabbage butterflies, small moths, carder and bumblebees on a folded paper strip with Louisa's graphite marks. a space to express what I saw happening within this square metre of the landscape through monoprinting, textural markmaking, natural inks and watercolour studies to make a snapshot of the life and light projected at sunset from a field in leitrim in early august.

01/08/2026

seed saving on lughnasadh 🌱
nasturtiums for drying and passing on

lesser stitchwort & heath bedstraw as it is in the mini meadow, eco print on irish linen

28/07/2026

field studies 🌱
enchanter's nightshade
meeting with an old friend,

a little native Irish wildplant in the verges, hedges and edges, in flower now. I introduced this magical little plant to our garden some years ago and quietly thriving now in patches of shade, strong,shy, unassuming, and as I've observed this past few months very able to withstand the recent heatwaves.

"Inchanters Night-shade… groweth in obscure and darke places, about dung-hills, and untoiled grounds, by path-waies and such like.”

John Gerard, Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes, 1597

pen and ink on paper, drawn from life

26/07/2026

Fraochán posie 🌱
for world bog day

gathered from the side of the iron mountain, near home in Leitrim. a mountain that holds the memories of generations of my family which we have reminisced much about over the past week.

fraughan or billberry is a small blue/black berry much like blueberry but smaller, they grow on peat and mountainous land. also know as heather berries amongst other names and traditionally picked in Ireland on garland/billberry or fraughan Sunday, grateful to hold generational, family stories of billberry sunday spent on both Sliabh an Iarainn and Thur mountain, Leitrim.

these bogs and peatlands support unique ecosystems not found in other habitats, the sphagnum mosses are one of my most vivid plant memories from childhood, the texture, scent and colour, I remember it's abundance – the keystone organisms of bog formation, in harmony with the fluffy bog cotton and ling heather, the billberry and bog rosemary and the rowan trees.

Irish Peatland Conservation Co

18/07/2026

feild studies 🌱 agrimony

the agrimony has been glowing in the hedgerows and ditches, rough grasslands and woodland edges the past couple of weeks on sunset field walks.

it's tall, narrow yellow flowers bending, almost floating in the breeze, gently nodding to the late evening bees and other pollinators. a perfect pairing in this recent heatwave. and providing nectar and food for the butterflies and moth catterpillars, in neutral, chalky soils.

thankful for this wildplant

16/07/2026

seeing several vibrant green baby oak trees appearing in the garden, the meadow abd our hedgerows at the moment. some are accompanying the meadow orchids as they retreat back into the land.

sharing this older linocut of a young, sprouting Irish oak which I made for a beautiful project event a while ago, preparing new cuts of young oak for print.

Leitrim field studies 🌿
Duir' Irish Oak sapling

linocut, pencil, pen & ink on mould made paper

The Oak' one of Ireland's first native trees was brought here by birds & other animals from Europe 12,000 years ago, soon after the Ice Age. The Sessike Oak is Ireland's National Tree and is commonly found in Leitrim. Hugely important to our wildlife, it sustains biodiversity. According to the National biodiversity 'all Ireland pollinators plan' the Oak supports 284 insects species, 324 lichens, and can live for over 1000 years as such this mighty tree represents hope, endurance and longevity.

'From tiny acorns grow mighty oaks'

11/07/2026

Cardamine hirsuta,
mother plant before seed dispersal 🌱

this mother plant creates a basal rosette of leaves and shoots up stalks with tiny white flowers. As these flowers are pollinated, they form narrow, green seed pods, when dry they become highly sensitive to touch, I've experimented with this and it's a joy to experience. In the wind they coil tightly and explode with force propelling seeds outward. This allows the mother to scatter hundreds of her seeds over the land.

ecological the flowers provide an early source of nectar for emerging pollinators, for the bees and butterflies. It's deep roots help to improve soil structure and increase nutrient availability. The plant’s leaves also contain nitrogen, which can be released back into the soil as they decompose.

coloured pencil and graphite on handmade organic cotton paper float mounted in a wooden frame.

On show as part of the Jane Stark ISBA Claregalway Castle for the summer

Thank you Sligo Paintings ~ Workshops ~ Classes for framing the drawing so beautifully and for the photos.

10/07/2026

Sanyu's cats on a hot tin roof

the heatwave continues in Ireland and due to stay well into next week. heatwaves of 10 days or more here are really rare here (5 days over 25c). the longest heatwave in Ireland on record was 14 days, 51 years ago.

playing catch up the last few 'tropical' leitrim evenings with Meg Buick wonderful 'finding your line' class, exploring practice and process on Sanyu. I looked his cat paintings, mixing pink pallettes in the heat while our cat mookie stretches sunbathes beside me.

Sanyu described cats as engaging " 'unknowable' creatures I love this and cats and the playfulness of his paintings, his cats are often depicted in solitude in everyday, ordinarily situations in a carefree way through simple lines and a limited colour pallete.

Sanyu, a Chinese-French modernist painter, 1895–1966 was known as the ‘Chinese Matisse’

08/07/2026

brunch in the garden from the garden 🌱

berries and brassicaceae are doing well despite a gentle conflict with the cabbage whites and other catterpillars laying at the moment, transporting them by hand in the evening to another bed of broccoli, cabbages and nasturtiums left over to them where they are growing really well. Lots of butterfly action going on.

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Tuesday	9am - 5pm
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