Plein Eire Administrator's Blog (46)

It took a while to organise but 3 seperate presentations were made recently, on behalf of Art in the Open, of plein air paintings made during last year's festival : -

First is a watercolour by Grahame Booth, "6 Wexford Doorways" seen being handed to Mayor of Annapolis, Josh Cohen by our guest artist, David Diaz, chair of …

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Your Plein Eire profile page or 'My Page' is a shop window for your art on the web.  If you google yourself, your page will come up somewhere in Google's list and the more you post and interact, the higher it will appear on the list.

While membership of Plein Eire is open only to artists, we know the site is visited by galleries and buyers who have bought paintings and given commissions on the basis of what they have found here. So how your window to the…

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Yesterday the site welcomed Mary Quinn , our 181st member, just 6 months since Plein Eire was launched at the beginning of March 2010. That makes roughly one member per day since the site began - a very encouraging response. - Roll on 200!



The website has been bolstered by support from groups Plein Eire West, Dublin Sketchers and the newly-formed Dublin Plein Eire, as well as South East Plein Air and South Tipp Art Group in the south east. It will be interesting to see whether we… Read on...

The People' Choice awards, where Art in the Open 2010 exhibition visitors ignore our esteemed judges' pronouncements to make their own selection of where the accolades should go, brought a bumper response this year. There were over 500 visitors to the exhibition on the opening bank holiday afternoon and a steady stream of visitors followed throughout the following week. Almost everyone took part and visitors could often be seen zig-zagging back and forth across the gallery comparing the merits… Read on...

The Plein Eire site, powered by Ning Networks, was free when it was launched back in March 2010. Since then, membership has grown by one member almost every day.

That is a very gratifying response to the effort that goes into it.

However, Ning Networks are now charging a fee for the facility to continue, facing networks such as this one with the choice of either paying for them or closing down. Some sites have sought donations while others opt to charge a joining fee.… Read on...

Joe McCaul havin' fun!

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