Plein Eire Administrator's Blog – June 2011 Archive (2)

Was there ever such a summer with so impressive a selection  or art courses boasting the array of talent as in Ireland in 2011?

What a paradox - the wiser I get, the more I realise how little I know.  

So if you haven't signed up at one of these courses to improve your artistic skills or to broaden your creativity, there are few excuses.

Several specifically plein air courses are listed on our 'Events' section given by artists such as Fergal Flanagan, Tom King (voted…

Watching a BBC programme on British landscape painting at the weekend I came across a new word. Well, new to me...."Stoffage".

Rather like 'en plein air' these things sound much grander in French, don't they?

- or should that be 'en francais'?

Anyway, it turns out 'stoff-ah -je' is what landscape painters call figures in a landscape going about their ordinary daily business - usually that is to say peasants dressed in peasant garb and…