April 2013 Blog Posts (6)

David explaining the golden section:

A big thank you to David and Hanneke, who gave a wonderful workshop yesterday at The Swallowsnest Studio. I think everyone benefited enormously from David's patient and insightful guidance...and Hanneke's patience :)

Work in progress, created at a recent residency at Tyrone…

I thought if anyone had interesting material relating to Irish Plein Air artists they could post it here.

I know that I am pretty much ignorant about the history of Plein Air so anything of interest would

be good. I would like to see other members posts rather than randomly trawling through the web.

On that note does anyone have images of plein air paintings by Frank O'Meara a 19th Century Irish

artist I recently came across.

The" Wonder's  Return"...... The start of Spring heralded the return of our friends Jane and Louise, who were only recently back from their trip to the Second Annual  Plein Air Convention & Expo in Monterey - Carmel , California. It may have felt like the start of Spring, but our two brave souls, certainly didn't have a "Spring" in their step, as they were still…

Patrick - hope you are feeling better, here are a few photos we managed to get yesterday and thanks for organising it - Shaws was lovely as was the company and usual chat 

Sally and Dee finished but not beaten !

Frank is branching out - super painting Frank…

I came across this exhibition catalogue on the web a while back.

It reminds me of the long tradition that our plein air endeavors

follow in the footsteps of.

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I suppose we do look a bit glum.  But that was because Norah was not in the picture.  She was taking it. We had what you might call a civic reception in Trim.  Noel French, President Trim Chamber of Commerce and Cllr. James O'Shea, Leas Cathaoirleach of the town council  welcomed us and gave us a broad history of the town of Trim.  They…