Go Leor

19/08/2025

🌙 From canal banks to celestial skies - Enagh Farrell’s work invites us to look again.

Her illustrations trace the wild in the everyday: signage along the Grand Canal, winter tree cards, and drawings that ask us to slow down and notice what’s living right beside us.

✨ Her art also graces the cover of Go Leor Issue 3 - capturing the quiet wonder and layered care that runs through the entire issue.

In our full feature, Enagh reflects on weeds, stars, signage trails, and working with writer Michael Harding. It’s a rich, grounded conversation about nature, print, and the ecology of attention.

📖 Read it now in Issue 3 of Go Leor
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17/08/2025

🌾 Way-finding from the cracks between climate, care, and kinship.

In our latest issue, we speak with writer and campaigner Alena Walker about food systems, motherhood, and the memory of wild things.

From the call of the corncrake to greenwashing in supermarkets, Alena’s work asks how we reconnect - with land, with language, and with each other.

🛶 Her stories flow between the practical and poetic: growing food, raising a daughter, noticing fewer insects, and refusing to let biodiversity loss go unnamed.

It’s a feature full of quiet force and regenerative hope.

📖 Read the full piece now in Go Leor Issue 3
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15/08/2025

🪡 Hand-stitched pages. Homegrown trees. Quiet craft.

Meet Rosanne Cecil, the thoughtful bookbinder behind Willow Leaves Handmade Books.

In a stone studio near a rewilded field, Rosanne binds books by hand, prints on cork, and plants birch, hazel, and rowan to restore what’s been lost. Her work is quiet, sustainable, and deeply rooted.

🌿 She’ll be opening her studio this Saturday as part of - come by to see her process up close, browse her handmade books, and soak in the stillness.

Read the full profile now in Issue 3 of Go Leor.
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09/08/2025

🌱 Issue 3 of Go Leor is live! 📖

This issue brings together four beautifully grounded voices - women whose work grows from care, craft, and quiet resistance.

✨ Rosanne binds handmade books in a rewilded corner of the countryside.
✨ Enagh Farrell draws stars, nettles, and the quiet richness of her Dublin streets.
✨ Corrina Askin invites us into dreamlike worlds shaped by mythology, nature, and wonder.
✨ Alena Walker writes from the edge of activism and motherhood - naming loss, but sowing hope.

From sketchbooks to signage, stinging nettles to storytelling, these are voices that root us back into what matters.

📚 Read the full issue → https://go-leor.co.uk/issue3/

15/07/2025

🖼️ “If there's no light in the work, it's just a void. There's nothing to it, you know? So you kind of do follow the light in the painting.” — Esther O’Kelly

From coastal memory to emotional cartography, painter Esther O’Kelly’s practice walks the line between disorientation and discovery - grounding her work in Irish folklore, landscape, and the subtle sadness of seasonal life.

Read the full Go Leor feature:
👉 https://go-leor.co.uk/creative-instinct-and-emotional-cartography-the-art-of-esther-okelly

Out of the Field and Onto the Canvas: Esther O’Kelly on Creative Disorientation, Confidence, and the Path Through The Stray Sod and Seachrán Sí

10/07/2025

🎨 The Festival of Colour is back this July - and it’s more than a celebration.
Organised by natural dyer and designer Malú Colorín, this weekend gathering brings together plant-based pigment, community craft, and deep environmental care.

Hosted at Willow & Lore in County Antrim (July 27–28), the festival includes natural dyeing workshops, forest school activities, a colour-themed treasure hunt, and hands-on sessions for all ages. It's joyful, rooted, and intimate.

For Go Leor Issue 2, we spoke with Malú about the inspiration behind the festival, her family’s textile traditions in Mexico, and how colour can serve as a gateway to environmental awareness.

📰 Read the full interview here: https://go-leor.co.uk/authentic-colour-natural-and-sustainable-textiles/
🎪 Festival info: talu.earth/archipelago-festival-of-colour

An intimate festival dedicated entirely to natural dyes, pigments, and inks, honouring the Land that provides them.

09/07/2025

🖼️ “I make art like I cook - I like to use up my leftovers.”
That line from my interview with Judith Logan has stayed with me - not just because it’s disarmingly honest, but because it captures something essential about her work.

For Go Leor Issue 2, I had the chance to speak with Judith about her creative life - from her quiet barn studio in rural Antrim to the Boathouse Gallery near the Giant’s Causeway.

We talked about the risks of sewing onto finished paintings, the emotional pull of red ochre and migratory birds, and the tension of having “one foot here and one foot there” after years of living between Ireland and Chile.

Her work - a blend of watercolour, collagraph, and deeply personal storytelling - is shaped by landscape, memory, and patience. It doesn’t demand attention, but it holds it, quietly and powerfully.

Judith’s full profile is now live in Go Leor Issue 2:
👉 https://go-leor.co.uk/swallows-thread-and-watercolour-judith-logans-genuine-world/

Meeting the Artist: At Home and in the Boathouse with Judith Logan, One of Antrim’s Quiet Originals, Who Threads Memory, Landscape, and Personal History into Every Layer of Her Work

07/07/2025

🌾 Go Leor Issue 2 is now live! 🌾
This issue centres on three remarkable women whose creative practices offer something we all need more of: depth, care, and real connection to place.

We’re proud to feature:

🎨 Esther O'Kelly Artist — a Belfast-based painter whose work explores disorientation, memory, and the guiding pull of light.
🌿 Malú Colorín — a natural dyer and designer bridging her roots in Mexico with regenerative textile work across Ireland.
🖼️ Judith Logan Art — a mixed-media artist whose quiet, layered pieces emerge from her home studio in rural Antrim.

Each story is an invitation into a creative life lived with attention and meaning - and a reminder that art doesn’t need to be loud to be powerful.

📰 Read the full issue here: https://go-leor.co.uk/issue2/
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07/06/2025

🌊 Therapy Meets the Coastline 🌊
Meet Marcun Doran, a CBT therapist and integrative counsellor whose practice on Ireland’s North Coast blends clinical science with deep empathy and a connection to nature.

From her first visit to the breathtaking shores of Northern Ireland, Marcun knew this was more than a place - it was part of the healing process. In our debut issue of Go Leor, she shares how conversation, community, and the coastline all play a role in emotional well-being.

🧠 Evidence-based therapy
💬 Real human connection
🌿 Healing through nature

✨ “You can be alone on a beach here quite easily. It gives you a sense of perspective—like, we’re just small creatures in a big world.” – Marcun Doran

Read the full story now in Go Leor:
🔗 https://go-leor.co.uk/marcun-doran-authentic-therapy-that-listens-integrative-care-with-heart/

Working at the intersection of evidence-based therapy and emotional intuition, Marcun’s practice on Ireland’s North Coast invites clients to find healing through conversation, community, and connections.

06/06/2025

🌿 From Hills to Canvas: The Nature-Inspired Art of Eimear Maguire 🎨

Did you catch our latest feature on Belfast artist Eimear Maguire?

Eimear’s work is more than just beautiful — it’s rooted in ritual, rhythm, and a deep relationship with the land. From painting barley for Bushmills to building nature maps with found objects, her creative process is as grounded as it is inspired.

✨ Curious about her morning mountain walks, pink-ground oil landscapes, and the secret symbolism of swifts?

👉 Read the full story on our website and step inside the world of Dollybirds Art:
🔗 https://go-leor.co.uk/nature-as-muse-the-authentic-world-of-eimear-maguire/

Belfast-based artist Eimear Maguire shares how daily walks, natural rhythms, and quiet rituals shape her hand-painted work - and why nature, for her, is both subject and sanctuary.

05/06/2025

📸 “Let the pictures find you.”

Photographer & artist James Hughes reflects on 40 years behind the lens - from smuggling cameras into AC/DC gigs to capturing the silent beauty of the Sperrins and the fading soul of historically significant sites.

In Go Leor, Issue 1, Hughes opens up about mythology, memory, and why he walked away from commercial photography to pursue something more authentic. His experience spans continents, from Georgian railways to Istanbul protests - always seeking the story behind the surface.

🔗 https://go-leor.co.uk/james-hughes-the-genuine-art-of-the-unseen-image/

🖼️ Catch his current exhibition POSTCARDS (Ghostwritten) at Roe Valley Arts Centre - a collaboration with Irish poet John Brown.
📷 Join James for his Photography Masterclass on Saturday, also at Roe Valley.
🎞️ Explore his cinematic journey through “Steinbeck’s Georgia: The Stills.”

👉 Read more and discover his world: jameshughesfoto.com
📅 Exhibition & workshop info:
🔗 https://roevalleyarts.com/events/postcards-ghostwritten-24-may-29-June
🔗 https://roevalleyarts.com/workshops/photography-masterclass-for-ages-16-yrs

On Myth, Memory, and the Uncommercial Eye: Photographer James Hughes on Forty Years of Image-Making Across Time, Place, and Protest