
on your wall
Barley Cove, Co. Cork
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I lost my wedding ring at Barley Cove. Went swimming on a family trip, didn't feel it slip off my finger, and only noticed when I walked back up the sand. Gone. Somewhere in the Atlantic, tumbled smooth by the tide or buried under a few feet of shell and grit. A small, ridiculous offering to the sea.
So when I flew over the same beach a couple of years later, there was a bittersweet quality to seeing it from above. That water looks impossibly clear from a few hundred feet up. Emerald and teal shifting with the sand beneath, no filter, no trickery. Just the Atlantic on a good October day in West Cork. The clouds were big and puffy, the light dappled, bright sun one moment then soft shadow rolling across the dunes. The kind of Co. Cork landscape that keeps changing every thirty seconds.
What I love most about this Barley Cove photograph is the river. You can see it meandering through green fields behind the beach, winding across sand flats before it finally meets the sea. Fresh water finding salt water. That pattern is remarkable from the air. The whole landscape here was shaped by a tidal wave in the 18th century, which created those characteristic dunes. There's a wildness to the place that even a calm afternoon can't disguise.
My wife was more forgiving than I deserved! And having that personal connection to a place, however daft the story, makes this image mean more to me than it otherwise might.
We ship worldwide, and every print from Exhibition size up goes free to Ireland, the UK and Europe. Studio prints and books carry a small charge. You pay one delivery charge per order. If it includes a print from Exhibition size up, that rate covers everything in it. Outside Europe, each rate covers up to two prints from Exhibition size up, or up to four Studio prints and books. Larger orders pay the rate again for each further two large prints, or each further four smaller pieces.
- Studio prints & books: €10 Ireland, €20 UK and Europe, €30 US and Canada, €40 rest of the world
- Exhibition size and up: free to Ireland, the UK and Europe, €50 US and Canada, €100 rest of the world
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We produce all our prints to order, so you can be sure you're getting the best quality work to hang on your wall. The estimated delivery date for your address is shown on each print's page: the time it takes to make the print, plus the courier's time to you.
We aim to get prints out as quickly as possible, so we would expect and hope that you would receive them earlier than the above timeframes. If you have a particular need to get a print quickly, please let us know in the order notes and we'll prioritize it for you, or you can email us at info@petercox.ie.
Prints are well-packaged and in the unlikely event that it arrives damaged, we'll send a replacement free of charge.
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Thanks for your trust, and we hope you get many years of enjoyment from your new print!































