Stuck In The Gap

stuck in the gap
between my front teeth
summer's end

Little Onion
September 2017

Little Onion is haiku poet, artist and cultural forager Paul Conneally
For workshops and commissions contact Love & Barley

'Matching Man'

'Matching Man'
Paul Conneally
King Power Stadium
August 19 2017

'THERESA' - Paul Conneally 2017

'THERESA'

Rape Seed Oil Monoprint

Paul Conneally

April 2017

To purchase or show this work contact: Loveandbarley@gmail.com

Love Me - Paul Conneally 2017

pulling petals
she loves me she loves me not
she loves me

'LOVE ME' - Paul Connelly 2017

Bertie at The Blue Army Craft Group

Bertie at The Blue Army Craft Group, New Parks, Leicester, UK

I was at the Blue Army Craft Group meeting to talk through and invite the members to take part in a new sound art piece with I-mitri CounterAction and Soft Touch Arts.

The group is pretty much self-organising and they work together on crochet, knitting and other craft and making skills. Many of the group, including Bertie, have worked with me on other works and projects such as Involuntary Painting New Parks : New York alongside my collaborator and friend New York artist Millree Hughes. They are a great bunch!

Paul Conneally
New Parks, Leicester
November 2016

Marta Oliviera-Child - Head Chef at the Bom Bom Patisserie

Marta Oliviera-Child is the head chef and co-owner of the Bom Bom Patisserie in Loughborough, Leicestershire, right in the heart of England.

Bom Bom Patisserie has been operating a few years but only opened the café part of the business in May 2016. It has proved to be a tasty, stylish and instant hit.

Marta comes from Brazil where her mother runs a restaurant. She came to Loughborough in 2006, like so many young people do, to study at Loughborough University. She always had a dream to open a patisserie and luckily for the people of Loughborough she has and what a patisserie it is!

after the pastry
the cream
on the end of her nose

Little Onion

Find out more about Marta and the Bom Bom Patisserie by visiting its website and hey, even better, the patisserie itself!

Photograph and text: Paul Conneally

Brian Allen - Plumber and Master Vegetable Grower

Brian Allen - plumber and master vegetable grower!

We've returned back to Loughborough from Dronfield two weeks running laden with fantastic produce, green beans, rhubarb, cabbage, courgettes... Thanks Brian and Jane Allen!

Paul Conneally
Dronfield Woodhouse
September 2016

Marion the Beekeeper

Marion the beekeeper despite torrential rain explains the joys and complexities of keeping bees in a suburban garden.

Marion opened her Loughbohemia (some call it Loughborough) garden as part of the National Gardens Scheme along with two other gardens including a Secret Craft Fair coordinated by Janet Currie.

Photograph: Paul Conneally

Kev Ryan - Artist, Photographer, Activist

Artist and photographer Kev Ryan of Charnwood Arts

Photograph: Paul Conneally, All Saints Parish Church, Loughborough

Rama Gupta - Loughborough

Rama Gupta 

Green Party Pioneer, Citizen of Loughborough and the World

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
April 2016

On the Allotment - Mile End Arts Pavilion

'On the Allotment'
One Off Ceramic Tile Series
Paul Conneally
Mile End Arts Pavilion, London, 2006

"Allotment holders on the Windmill Allotments in Nottingham talked with me about their time 'on the allotment' and shared with me ten words or short phrases that came to mind on that day, at that time, on the allotment. I then used these to create 'wordsearch portraits' of them. Their words were coloured using a strict system approach with each wordsearch being both a portrait and a poem of that person on their allotment at that time. The portraits were initially laid down on concrete paving stones within Windmill Community Gardens and then made into one off ceramic tiles which formed part of The Renewability exhibition at Mile End Arts Pavilion in London. After the show the tiles were returned to Windmill Community Gardens and installed on an open shed structure to become 'The Portrait Shed' where they slowly changed with the weather and the seasons eventually cracking, breaking, becoming crocks for plant pots."

Paul Conneally


The Portrait Shed - Paul Conneally 2007

Two Jamaican Girls

Two Jamaican Girls - Augustus John 1937

This painting is in The Walker Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
It seems to shout across the room "Come look at me!"

Wyndham Lewis describes the artist, Augustus John, as:

‘a great man of action into whose hands the fairies had placed a paintbrush instead of a sword’.

If you are in Liverpool a visit to The Walker Gallery is a 'must do' - do it!

Paul Conneally
April 2016

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Thomas Walker - Artist Curator

 Thomas Walker - Artist Curator -Loughborough - 2015

Artist, Thomas Walker, is caught getting snapped by photographer Kev Ryan on the stairs of Sofa in Loughbohemia (some call it Loughborough) where the artist led exhibition 'Nine Frames', organised by Walker, was taking place.

Photograph: Paul Conneally 2015

Stacked - George Sfougaras

'Paul Conneally' by George Sfougaras

Part of George's experiments with light and dark - acrylic paint on birch board then cut up into squares and recombined... for me the work also works when stacked...


'Stacked Portrait of Paul Conneally' - George Sfougaras

George Sfougaras works out of his studio in the new and brilliant Leicester Print Workshop where continually explores the possibilities of painting, print, art.

Rama Gupta - Environmental Activist and Thinker

Rama Gupta - Environmental Activist and Thinker

Photo: Paul Conneally Loughborough 2015

Newspaper Seller

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Newspaper Seller

It's good to see that despite the online proliferation of news there are still local newspapers and what's more local newspaper street sellers. This jolly chap is at the intersection of Loughborough's Market Street and Market Place. He sells just one publication the weekly Loughborough Echo. He doesn't shout out to passers-by to sell his papers but draws them in with his smile, a broad grin, and kind words.

local gossip
just when will the council
mow these verges?

Paul Conneally
Loughborough
July 16 2015

Maurice Maguire

Maurice Maguire - artist - curator - cultural geographer

Photo: Paul Conneally

Debbie Miles-Williams - Archeological Illustrator

Debbie Miles-Williams - Archeological Illustrator

Debbie Miles-Williams is an artist based within Leicester University's School of Archeology and Ancient History. Debbie is an archeological illustrator. She also runs a first class education outreach programme that enthuses others about archeology and ancient history and builds important skills in the school's under and post-graduate students.

Many will be surprised that in the days of digital imagery archeological illustrators still exist but they are an important element of the discipline and can show via the hand so much more than a photograph.

I'm pleased to be working with Debbie in planning exciting outreach work with schools and colleges and in exploring and learning more about archeology and how the stories it unfolds have relevance for us and our lives right now in the twenty-first century.

Paul Conneally

Leicester, June, 2014

Maurice Maguire - Artist and Cultural Geographer

Maurice Maguire

Artist and Cultural Geographer

Photo: Paul Conneally, Ravenstone, June 2014

Chris Mear - Photographer

Chris Mear - Photographer

Paul Conneally

Loughborough 2014