August 2013 Blog Posts (11)

Some of the painters who remained on Saturday.   Missing from the photograph are Patrick himself (maybe he took it), Kay Martin, Anna Hurley, DeeCrowe, Paul Cullen, Daragh Walsh, Valerie Syms Martin and David Goldberg. Thanks for a very interesting day Patrick.  Look forward to recipes for pumpkin dishes when the time comes.  Great to meet Valerie and David and learn…

It was great to see a few new faces today, at  our paintout in Borodale along with Barry, Phil, Lynn, Ray, Laura, Denise, Micheal, Anne, Tony, Phil, Paul,Bernadette, Zane, and myself.

Many thanks to Bernadette Doolin, who gave us directions, and "fueling station", along with some local knowledge for future visits.

Borodale is beautiful, particularly…

A huge THANK YOU, goes out to Marie-Christine O Brien, and Francoise Davidson, who arranged SEPA's visit to Bargy Castle last Sunday. A perfect venue, for our brave crew, recovering from the whirlwind which was "Art In The Open" ! A new venue, which was wonderfully peaceful, full of history and inspiration. The perfect antidote for paint exhaustion.

Francois…

Spending a week at Ballinglen Art Foundation Co Mayo great place 

Mayoral Award Winner, Valerie Craig with Neil O'Keeffe (AITO) and  Cllr Ted Howlin, Chairman Wexford County Council in loco for Mayor of Wexford. Sponsor: WBC

Tomas King, Silver category Award Winner. Sponsor: T. Morris…

A vote for us is a vote for Irish artists in general. We are trying to grow the Bloomsday festival into a massive street carnival, our very own Mardi Gras. We called our project 'Blowing up Bloomsday'. We've applied to the Arthur Guinness Projects funding online voting system and are looking for votes, we started later than most and need to cover a lot of ground to be in with a chance even as a wild card so please please if you can take two minutes to sign in and  vote for us here we would…

Last day of …

Not really what its all about but of course, everyone is curious to see which ones the judges chose.

Here are images of ten winning paintings from Art in the Open 2013.

Festival photo selection: …