Time Travel
When you enter the simple wooden door of the Armada Gallery you would be forgiven for thinking you had accidentally stepped back in time or walked into a miniature museum. With only the haunting melody of medieval music and a grinning skull to curate the ancient collection,
Treasures of the Armada Gallery
behind a partition door hinged to what can only be described as a ships mast the resident Artist Philip Brett works on his latest creation. Rigging out a magnificent smoke blackened Spanish Galleon, he will happily share his process with visitors explaining the inspiration for and the work involved in bringing the ancient history of his home County to life.
The Artist at work on a Spanish Galleon
If you have never been to Co. Sligo it is no surprise especially to a native of the area, Sligo is Ireland's best kept secret, much maligned and cut off from the world by it's own geography, the main arterial roads from North, South and the East seem to narrow into winding pathways making the journey a tentative one.
Nine times out of ten the journey for me is beset with difficulties mainly weather related, storms, squalls torrential rain or on the odd occasion where an Arctic hiccup causes the entire country to freeze solid.
A Frozen Wilderness
Next week: Finding The Wild North West.
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