‘Why don’t I paintings like the opposite males do / How the hell can I paintings if the sky is so blue / Springtime has come and gained’t we’ve a laugh / We’ll surrender our jobs and we’ll move at the run…” The teasing lyrics of Why Don’t I Paintings via Sligo band the Hunter may well be an anthem for the tens of 1000’s lured to Eire’s beach, rivers and lakes all the way through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Photographer Alice Ward didn’t want a lot of an excuse to practice their lead. She used the crowd’s track because the musical rating for Ebb and Waft, a 12-minute movie that harnesses probably the most volcanic power of the northeast Atlantic because it captures wetsuited trio Elizabeth Clyne, Katie