Hidden Treasures

Captains blog; star date 10/01/2018




After weathering the increasingly frequent storms of 2017 The Armada Gallery has set its course for the New Year with an overhaul of the studio upstairs and downstairs. The work space below decks was becoming cramped and cluttered with less than adequate lighting and so it was time to make better use of the upstairs storage space.


The plan is to continue the theme throughout with a larger captains quarters and working gun ports complete with rolling guns. The space will double as a props and model making department for more fun theater productions in the Spring time.


  Re-fitting the Gallery after a busy year 
                    

Located on the Surf Coast route of the Wild Atlantic Way overlooking Drumcliff Bay and nestled under Benbulben mountain The Armada Gallery is a uniquely quaint Art Gallery of a very different kind. Inside a renovated 17th century Farmyard in the heart of Yeat's Country you would be amazed that there is anything behind the simple wooden door in the cold stone and brickwork facade, no windows in the ground floor reveal the world within.


 Artworks and Artifacts

Steeling your nerves you enter and as your eyes adjust to the gloom a shaft of light from a grating in the ceiling sheds light on the interior, Artwork and Artifacts occupy every nook, models of Spanish Galleon Ghost ships stand on plinths muskets and broadswords adorn the walls, ancient maps and scrolls heaped with gold coins spread out on a desk with ornate furniture. Next to a bookshelf stacked with dusty leather bound books sits The Captain of this unlikely venture preparing the battle orders for this years campaign, charting a course through the treacherous waters of the Wild Atlantic Way.



Roll out the guns

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