Royal Ulster Academy Annual Show

I was very chuffed that my work 'Irish Lights' was selected for this years Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibition.  It's up in the Ulster Museum at the moment and you can see the exhibition until the start of January.  Even more exciting that being picked to be in the exhibition is the fact that my book has been sold!  I couldn't believe it when my mum phoned me to say she'd seen a red dot by my piece when she was in looking around the exhibition.  Woohoo! There is no other word for it really.

Detail of the book

Another close up

How the book is displayed in the exhibition.

Cheesy pick of me at the opening of the exhibition with someone looking through my book in the background!

Exhibition...

I'll be part of an exhibition, along with my mum and sister, opening this Saturday from 11 - 1 in Killyleagh library.  Everyone's welcome the opening so do come along if you can.  There will be refreshments, including a glass of wine if you fancy it!  The exhibition runs to the 28th June.

Some lovely prints from a workshop my sister is teaching…

Exhibition opening...

On Thursday night we had  the opening of our joint exhibition, Land, Sea and Air in Castle Espie.  This exhibition is the first time me, my mum and my sister have had an exhibition together.  It was a lot of work getting ready for it but it was all worthwhile - so many people turned up for the opening night, we were really chuffed!



We started with a little celebratory glass of champagne…




My piece was called Irish Lights - a concertina book of lithographs of drawings of all of the lighthouses around ireland - 73 of them in total!




It worked out pretty long in the end, 7 metres when laid out flat, about 4 metres when concertina’d.







I also created a large print of all the lighthouses together (as I figured most people probably wouldn’t want to buy a 7 metre book for their house!)




Sarah had beautiful paintings of wildlife including hares, pheasants and stags. As well as a selection of drawings and prints.










and mum had gorgeous landscapes and still lifes.







The exhibition is on until the 9th June so there’s plenty of time to have a look if you’d like to.  There is a lovely cafe at Castle Espie so you can team it with some tasty lunch or a cup of tea and a brownie, and of course you can always go and see the ducks as well!

Castle Espie
78 Ballydrain Road, Comber, Co Down
028 91874146
info.castleespie@wwt.org.uk

Open Monday - Friday 10 - 5 and Sat - Sun 10 - 5.30

Another new website....

Don’t worry, I haven’t gone mad and made myself a third website!  I spent this morning helping my sister put together a new site.  She is a very talented painter and printmaker and definitely worth checking out!

Here are some pics of the new site….

you can also find her on tumblr 

and on etsy

and also twitter… she’s pretty new to twitter (2 followers at last count) so do say hello!

Catch up part two....

I’ve been working on lost of different things recently one of which was making myself a new website.  I’ll still have the main longshot press website but I decided I should have a site for my more fine art work as the longshot site is more illustration and design related. So I’ve now got emmamajury.co.uk as well.  Its still very much a work in progress but here are a few peeks at what its like so far…







I’m also going to add a page with images from my sketchbooks but I haven’t quite got round to finishing that bit!

Here are some of my sketchbook pages that I’m going to include….









I made the drawing above into a drypoint print which was exhibited as part of the Arts Society of Ulster annual exhibition which is just over.



The drawing above is part of a series I am currently working on, I’m in the process of creating a book of polyester plate lithographs of ten drawings of timetables from the Ulster Folk and Transport Museums archives.

Here are some shots of my very messy printing session….






inkiest sponge ever!



a half inked up plate.

Finally I leave you with a photo of some very tasty  biscuits I made at the weekend, thanks for reading these two rambling posts, go and have a cup of tea - you definitely deserve it!

Catch up part one...

So as usual it’s been a while since I posted anything but I have been storing up lots of photos of things that I’ve been meaning to post but never get round to.  But today I’m going to finally sort things out so this might be a bit of a mammoth post! (or two or three!)

First up some titanic related bits and pieces… I know I’m a bit late with this as titanic mania is a bit old news now but better late than never I suppose!

At the start of April I went to an exhibition in one of the unused areas of Victoria Square.  It was held by the Belfast Print Workshop and all the prints were based around the theme of Titanic…. here are some of my favourites *apologies for the photographs, it was a very sunny evening and there were lots of windows in the exhibition space so there are lots of reflections I’m afraid*



the one above is by my sister sarah majury, the image is made up of the names of all the passengers and crew who were on board the Titanic.



These two above are by Brian Magee



Will White



In other titanic related stuff I worked on a project with NI Cancer Fund for Children and Katie from AV Browne to create an illustration of the Titanic for their Titanic Ball in May.

It was used on their billboard and bus shelter ad’s - it was very nice seeing my illustration printed out that big!



And it has also been beautifully screen printed by Katie and Jessica (from the Print Workshop).  The screen print is going to be auctioned at the ball.




Well I think that’ll do for now!  I’ve lots more to blog about so I will get organised and bring you catch up part two shortly!

where does all the time go?

Well many apologies for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been working away like crazy over the last few months and I’m afraid the blog has rather fallen by the wayside. Although I haven’t been posting I have been taking pictures as I’ve been working and have quite a stock pile built.  I decided that I better get on with it and finally post some of what I’ve been up to so here it is…(this might be quite long!)

Lots of printmaking….



lots of inky mess!



piled up finished prints

a very high tech way of weighting down the drying prints ;-)



a print I exhibited as part of the valentines exhibition in Spacecraft.  Its called ‘I wonder if he’ll care?’ you can still see it in the gallery part of Spacecraft.



This is a piece that is in the current ‘Commemorate' exhibition on in Spacecraft.  Its a great exhibition (even if I am a little biased since I'm in it!) and it's on until 28th April so there's plenty of time to head down and take a look.



I’ve also got some work in this lovely new craft gallery just recently opened in Killyleagh.  Its got some really lovely work in it (including work by both my mum and sister!) They have a facebook page here



my books along with a record bowl from magpie in the kingfisher craft gallery



a view inside the kingfisher - I visited on such a lovely sunny day.


And finally…..



I’m going to be a shedworker! I’ve finally got a shed which I’m going to convert into a studio (so i can reclaim the spare room!)  I can’t wait to move in but as you can see from the photo there is lots to do!  I’ve had a shed/studio in the past which I didn’t insulate properly and it was always a bit damp and cold, so learning from past mistakes I’m going to make sure I go the whole hog and put in proper insulation.  I’ll keep you posted with progress and hopefully it won’t be too long before I can unveil the finished studio!

Anyway I think that’s quite enough for one post, plus its a very sunny St Patrick’s day out there so I am going to head out and enjoy some of the guinness brownies I’ve made for the occasion!