I did a wee bit of work at the beginning of the year for Circle Creative. This was a large format portrait of John De Courcy, the Norman Knight who built the original castle on Fergus' Rock (Carraig Fergus).

I was sent a link today of the image today, so i have put it up here. But it is up on the wall now. The original figure was painted on canvas, but was then reproduced as full size metal cut out to be attached to a wall in the town of Carrickfergus.

I had a friend who closely matched De Courcy's description, tall, lean, fair-haired, so i used him as the model (Yuri)...this was a relatively straight forward job and Circle Creative were a joy to work with.

As an adjunct to this i also met the archaeologists doing work in the castle Rory O'Boyle from Queens University Archaeological Dept. who gave us some great insights into small artillery traintrack in the castle grounds, they where recording, but thats another story ;¬)

Below are a few links:

http://www.carrickfergus.org/news/item/677/carrickfergus-timeline/
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