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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: …

A few photos from a very successful day at Duckets Grove paint out yesterday - thank you to Tony Robinson for hosting such a great day and congrats to all the prizewinners. A big thank  you to James, Mary and  Geraldine for all their help and encouragement.  

click on the link to see more photos and if you want to save them to your own pc just right click and save…

Just back from Enniscrone with family- painted on the beach!

Better still I picked up a long promised treat in Brittany - a Julien outdoor easel - what a pleasure to paint with it. Grateful to the saturday independent weekender for a nice piece. More on my website--

http://www.robertshaw.ie/news-article.asp?NewsID=27&Title=My%20new%20studio!%20Outdoors…

Another lovely day yesterday at one of the beaches near Sutton - Sally found some lovely wild roses and those grasses were magnificient 

A few more photos on flickr - this is the link 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/organize/?start_tab=sets…

Painting in the Park

Wexford is twinned with the municipality of Couëron in the Loire-Atlantique department of France, close to the city of Nantes.

This year five artists representing Wexford (Jim Doolan, Margaret Kent, Tom Roche, Sheila Ronan and George McHugh) attended a plein-air art festival in Couëron on the weekend of 15-16 June. The visitors were hosted by local families and were the recipients of unbounded hospitality.

Some of the Couëron artists intend to participate in the Art in the Open…

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Sean in the wild among the buttercups

Paul in the wild among the buttercups…

Frank, Rita, Billy and Tom, rounding off a great days painting after a chat over a cuppa :)

Beautiful weather and great company for last Saturdays Paintout in Ferns. We had the opportunity to explore some of the historical ruins dotted around the town, with some lovely surprises. Thanks to Rita and Billy for their help and guidance throughout the…

Croatia is the latest to be added to the list of countries from which artists will be heading to Art in the Open in 8 weeks time. Marc Dalessio lives in Zagreb and his website is well worth a look. Marc is giving one of the workshops at this year's festival. His workshop group is…

Beautiful Sunshine today, made for a great return outdoors in the wonderful location , Fethard on Sea. We missed a 10km run from Hook head to Fethard in aid of MS, as a majority of us couldn't move past a gem located just before Fethard Harbour. It was great to see everyone able to paint in the comfort of a lovely sunny warm day.

Philip Dundon, Anne Cahill,…