South East Plein Air

Hail rain snow or sleet we're comin' 

Thanks to everyone for a most enjoyable day. We must organise a programme of scheduled paint-outs. I'll post something about this tomorrow.

Micheal

I'm going to post an event in Clonegal for Sunday March 1

Thanks Neil. Let's hope some more SEPA members volunteer this time.

Michael, my suggestion is for Kilmore Village, say 2 weeks after Niall's, on the 15th March.  I passed through and there seemed like a couple of nice scenes there.

I sent out a group message to SEPA, Louise (you should have received an e-mail) looking for volunteers to organise a paint-out. I suggested that we get a schedule of six fortnightly paint-outs like we did last autumn. Neil O' Keeffe and John Moriarty have already posted events for 1st and 15th March.

As discussed, John, post it as a SEPA event for the 15th March. Any probs, give me a call - I'm back at my PC now.

May I suggest Tintern Abbey for the 12th of April. As it should be open by then. I may not be around for 29th March. I will post as an event later.

Thanks Jan. We can check beforehand, but as far as I can recall, the café is open in April. The grounds will be open anyway and there's a pub in Saltmills where we could meet up afterwards if it's closed. OK three down, three to go!

Earliest available date now is 29th March, Louise. After that it's either 26th April or 10th May (some of us going to Germany around then?).

I put a suggestion for 29th MCH at Altmont Gardens, but I don't see it appearing on this page?

It's up under "Events", Dick. Can you do 26th April, Louise?

I have just 'discovered' the Events page Michael. Doh!

I'll send out a Group message with the schedule, Geraldine when we have 6 events agreed.

The Huntington Castle gardens at Clonegal are open daily May - September 10.00 to 6.00 pm.(Tickets cost €5 per adult)

If heading beyond the village (which is very pleasant) into the Castle grounds, we need to check first with Huntington Castle.

Thank you Michael....one day will get to grips with all this Star Trek stuff...lol

Great to see lots of events coming up. Would anyone fancy Altomont Gardens this sunday 22nd Feb the snowdrops should still be there. meet at the Forge cafe on the left just before turning for Altomont on the right at 10 45

We have scheduled Altmont Gardens for later in March already. But going twice is no prob if people want to go this weekend. Might consider it.

I'd be on for it, Annie. I think the weather forecast is fairly OK too. Do you want to put it up as an event - I think now you may have the option to send a group message after doing so - if not let me know and I'll send the message after you've posted it.

You'll probably find spring flowers at Borodale Wood, too?

I was thinking about Borodale too, but there are no facilities and no obvious place to meet up afterwards.

Will you post an event then for St Mullins on 26th April, Louise? Should be lovely there at that time of year. That should be enough for us at the moment (as a schedule of events). Nothing to stop anyone posting other events in between these of course and using the "Friends" messaging option to alert others.

March 1     Clonegal - Neil O'Keeffe
March 15   Kilmore Village - John Moriarty
March 29   Altamont Gardens - Dick Donaghue
April 12      Tintern Abbey - Jan Ryan
April 26      St Mullins - To be confirmed

http://mdfedart.com/pages/paint_annapolis.php  

Give it a go !!!!

A reminder that Paint Annapolis Application Deadline is March 4th...A really enjoyable Event, and remember one place is definitely being reserved this year for a Wexford Participant, but more than one may be accepted. . . Here's a link to the PAint Annapolis site, look for the link Wexford County Applicants near the end of the page....Paint Annapolis

Will the weather stop us tomorrow 

Will have a peep through the curtains in the morning.....see what's brewing  Hmmmmm!

I'm going anyway

I'm on my way. See what happens when we get there

Got the message and turned back at Bunclody when I could hardly see the road. And when I got home the sky began to clear ....

After a dire start to the day, Crikey, the  sun is shining now!!!! Ah well got a load of panels gessoed and toned !! Ready to slap some more paint on over the next few weeks !!

Hey Michael how did it work out?  We went down to the beach and had brilliant sunshine as well as a few clouds...

Given that the weather tends to be a big deciding factor, even in the sunny south east, maybe some time we could try for leaving the venue decision until we have reasonable forecast info.

How that might work is via a shortlist of coastal and more inland sites. So the 'organiser' posts the actual venue the evening before, and everyone checks it last thing that night, or anyway before leaving the house.  

The more inland venues could take place in the more settled weather, and the coastal ones, where the chance of sunshine is better,  left for the more uncertain days.  Any thoughts?

I think we've just had a bad run recently, John. This thing has been going for years and I can remember only a handful of really wet days. So I'd be reluctant to change things unless our bad run of luck continues. But let's hear what others have to say.

Have to agree with Dee, some of the paintings I enjoyed most were done with a brolly in one hand (if David Diaz can do it - remember his beautiful demo in Wexford outside Whites hotel in the rain and he did a fabulous painting).  I remember being advised to look out for the aldi or lidl ski pants and they are great.  It is messy to commit to a date and then have to change it because of the weather, especially for the host.

I think we more or less adopted that attitude too with SEPA and I can remember producing some good work on less than perfect days. Of the two recent cancellations, only one was a scheduled event, and there was the minor matter of the Ireland-England rugby match as well as the weather influencing the decision to cancel last Sunday's scheduled event in Clonegal. I can't remember ever cancelling any events other than these. I think John may have a point in one respect - it may well be worth changing a venue  in certain situations. For example, we could have scheduled an event for Hook Head and find ourselves facing a forecast for gale force winds - wind is more of an issue than rain in my experience. Then it might be worth considering switching it to a more sheltered location.

Sooooo? Are we going to Clonegal on Sunday next to make up for the missed paint out last Sunday?