The silent art auction was a blast. We ate, drank, socialized, and we got some phenomenally good deals on art too, since the blizzard and bus strike kept a lot of people home.
Me, by Scott Amey
That doesn’t mean we got to waltz off with everything we wanted though. Scott Amey, who runs Irene’s kitchen, submitted a painting called Me. I loved it, but I wasn’t the only one. A small crowd of us gathered around that painting in the final moments of the auction and the bidding got pretty intense. I didn’t win it.
After the Rain, by Gwendolyn Best
But all that last-minute bidding action on Scott’s painting distracted everybody from a couple of others that were selling for far less than expected. I got this abstract for next to nothing, and GC picked up the cello player for peanuts. Not only that, but I got a bright cheery encaustic by Susan Monty for a song. I love it.
The Cello Player
The City: an encaustic by Susan Monty
The Regulars, by GC and Zoom (on the left)
As for the art that GC and I donated to the show, both pieces sold! The first one, called The Regulars, is a mixed media piece that GC and I made together. It’s a bit of a dog’s breakfast with text, paints, transfers, coloured pencils and hidden images, but we kind of liked it. It got five bids, including one from the owner of Irene’s and one from my friend Tish. I don’t know the guy who won it, but I was told he is a regular.
Urban Urchin - digital collage by zoom (on the right)
The other piece, a digital collage entitled Urban Urchin, also got five bids. It went to someone with mysterious connections to the blogging underworld, the village of Maynooth, and Irene’s Pub. I saw him but I don’t know him, and it was all very intriguing.
This, by the way, is Pat Golding, who works at Irene’s and who came up with the brilliant idea of Everybody’s Art Show. Someday she’s going to be a podcaster, and she’ll be the best damned podcaster ever. She’s smart and funny and nobody tells a story better. I love listening to her.
This, by the way, is Pat Golding, who works at Irene’s and who came up with the brilliant idea of Everybody’s Art Show. Someday she’s going to be a podcaster, and she’ll be the best damned podcaster ever. She’s smart and funny and nobody tells a story better. I love listening to her. 
Sounds like a really fun night! And I think the concept is a great one!
May I contribute to the intrigue by complimenting you on your very fetching piece Zoom. A tall dark man just showed it to me in his dressing room moments after I read about it here.
in that photo at irene’s pub, the art looks so fantastic on the wall behind her.
Patti – the mystery intensifies! The tall dark stranger has a dressing room?
I lived in Maynooth for many years. I know for a fact that there are no tall dark strangers there. The people of Maynooth are short doughy redheads.
I lived in Maynooth for many years. I know for a fact that there are no tall dark strangers there. The people of Maynooth are short doughy redheads.
And they say everything twice.
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