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Aileen
@aileenpiano.bsky.social
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Irish pianist (DMus) ~ textiles & woolly things ~ photography & visual art ~ written & spoken word 🌈✌🏻
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Overcoming the mental blobbery resulting from finally(omg finally) submitting my DMus corrections by returning to a project that I started before my viva! The fabric is pretty incredible 😍

#HelensCloset #GilbertShirt #Sewing #MeMade #SewingClothes #Ireland #Cats
A short sleeved shirt on a mannequin with a piece of paper pinned to it to mark out where the buttonholes should go. The fabric pattern is a trippy repeating pattern of fluffy cat faces. Close up of the repeating fluffy cat face pattern
August 1, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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And here's a Painted Lady who was lunching right beside! "The book" says they migrate from Africa every Spring and the journey takes several generations to complete. No wonder it felt like a nectar coffee ☕️

#IrishPhotography #Boglands #Ireland #Butterfly
A painted lady butterfly feeding on a clover plant with its wings open. It is orange with black patches all over and white spoteens near the wing tips.
July 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Lots of Peacock butterflies around at lunchtime today 🦋 the lighter highlights on the wings are kind of neon in person ✨️
A Peacock butterfly feeding on clover, with its wings open
July 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Feeling pretty lucky to get to hang out with this guy today 🪰

#IrishFlora #IrishBogland #Macro #Lumix #GX9 #SouthSligo #IrishLandscape #Landscape
May 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Still dreaming of Lofoten from just a few days ago 😌 Svolvaer, same time, 2 different days.

#Photography #Landscape #LofotenIslands #Svolvaer
A colour photo of a small town at the foot of a mountain, in shadow, with mountains in the background lit by the setting sun. Waterfront at dusk with the houses' lights reflected in the water. A mountain with some snow stands to the rear of the village.
April 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Haven't had a chance to share the rest of my @littledeercomics.bsky.social order from the other week. Some zines! Absolutely in love with the attentive artwork in each of these. And a lettering tutorial book to help with some new spring-summer art projects 🖌

#irishcomics #irishart #brainfodder
A selection of zines, a mixture of colour and black and white Front cover of The ABC of Custom Lettering by Ivan Castro
April 8, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Very exciting post came yesterday from @littledeercomics.bsky.social \°/
Lots of goodies therein...here's what got my order started - 2 textile related titles that I've been wondering about for ages 🧵🪡 Love what Common Threads press do.
#irishbookshop #shoplocal
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Such a pleasure to revisit Maynooth University last week to rehearse Rossini in the beauty of the College Chapel, ahead of our Petite Messe Solennelle concert yesterday 🎶
March 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Morning doodles and waiting for paint to dry 🎨 🖌

#Doodles #Drawing #MallowBears #Illustration #Storytelling #WorkInProgress
February 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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The way people just step into the light and kind of disappear for a moment. Great light today.

#Dublin #Ireland #StreetPhotography #BeamMeUp
A person in shadow on the street floating over a pool of sunlight. A person in shadow smoking in the sun.
February 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Trying this out for the first time today. If you don't hear from me again, you might as well assume that the inevitable has finally come to pass and I've poisoned myself with my own cooking. Minute drama, thy name is soup.
February 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Dead cold and cloudy for much of the day here, but then the sun came out late in the afternoon! On with the wellies and off down the fields...

#Ireland #Photography #NorthWestHikes #Sligo #nature
Clouds in the blue sky, sidelit from the west Dead briars back-lit by the evening sun
February 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Another glorious day in the North West... the light is really starting to change now and it feels a little bit like Spring! So good to get out in it.

#NorthWestHikes #Sligo #Photography #Ireland #forest #sunshine #apricity
Sunshine with lens flare coming through a forest of pine trees. The slight reflection of a stream can been seen as it flows towards the viewer
February 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Foresty, boggy vibes from yesterday's hike ⛰️

#Sligo #Ireland #Photography #NorthWestHikes #ForestBathing #SunStar
A pine branch against a background of branches covered in lichen, back-lit by the winter sun Pale green lichen alongside a sprig of heather on the ground of the bog A clump of pale green lichen hanging from a pine branch
February 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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...for peace comes dropping slow...

Idyllic morning earlier, hiking up over by the lake.

#Sligo #Photography #NorthWestHikes
A very still lake with the reflection of mountains and little fluffy clouds.
February 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Waiting out the rain and finally getting around to organising a new warp for my loom. Planning on a set of cotton twill handtowels for the kitchen.
#Weaving #IrishWeavers #Twilling #IrishTextiles #Crafter
A full warping board with natural coloured cotton yarn. One of the crossing points on a full warping board, with natural coloured cotton yarn.
January 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Posted 🌈 these🌈 off to my best friend, who's been having a rough time the last while.

We haven't had a chance to catch up and play music in about 5 months now. She loves woolly socks so I hope she'll feel comforted when she wears them!

I ran out of stripey wool on the 2nd one 😬
A pair of rainbow striped socks hanging on sock blockers The toe shaping of a sock where the rainbow wool has run out
January 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Really enjoy how grey, dark January days can get you thinking about texture... my first grá was b&w film photography in the late 90s. It took me years to convert to digital 😅
A black and white photo of a used cigarette on the ground. Tracks of dead ivy that grew on a wall
January 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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When it's so grey out like today, I love taking a few minutes to antidote-paint the skies I dream of seeing ☁️ 🌈 waiting for things to dry so I can work on the next layer 🖌
Work-in-progress photo of sketch depicting a fjord with a drying watercolour impression of the arora
January 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Been loving that low, piercing afternoon sunlight we've been having this week ☀️
Back-lit dog chilling out in the sun contemplating the treat timeline
January 16, 2025 at 7:45 PM