Painting Holiday Heir Island 2010 |
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Heir Island Photos |
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Roisin Markham 13th April 2010 "The Magic of Felt" |
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Roisin’s demonstration was wonderfully colourful. She gave a great insight into her creative process for making felt, from the initial design to the finished piece of felt. Roisin began by placing a towel and a sheet of bubblewrap on the table and laid out the piece with layers of wool. Using different types of wool and fabric, Roisin built up layer upon layer of coloured fibres until it was about two inches thick. She then placed nylon netting over the piece and wet the piece with soap and water. She began to gently flatten the piece to get the fibres to mesh with each other. She then rolled the piece to further mesh it and then put it in warm and cold water to shock it. Physically throwing the piece on the table in between helps the fibers to mesh as well. Roisin also showed how to incorporate pieces of silk in a fine felt mesh. Many thanks to Roisin for a wonderful demonstration in felt making.See Roisin Markham's Blog http://ballygarrettartstudio.blogspot.com/ |
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Ruthie Ashenhurst 9th March 2010 |
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Ruthie gave a wonderful demonstration on acrylic painting and started off using a broad brush to fill in the sky and added a horizon line with a piece of card. She then painted the sandy area in the foreground and finished off some detail again with a piece of card. She created a wonderful seascape with a boat on the beach. Ruthie went on to discuss many methods and techniques used to be creative. She then used some black card and a pallet knife to create a number of loose figures and sprayed them with water to let the paint run. Many thanks to Ruthie Ashenhurst for her wonderful and insightful demonstration. For more details of Ruthie's work please visit her website www.ashenhurst.com |
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The Chester Beatty Library 23rd Feb 2010 |
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Meeting in the Silk Road Cafe at 10.30am we had refreshments before meeting our tour guide Cathriona Russell. We were given a wonderful insight into the many objects on display in the Sacred Traditions Gallery on the second floor where they keep the exhibits of the sacred texts, illuminated manuscripts and miniature paintings of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and other religions. Also on the guided tour was the major exhibition of thirty-eight Chinese paintings from the Shanghai Museum. We also got to see the "MANI: The Lost Religion of Light" exhibition as well as the short film about Sir Alfred Chester Beatty. Many thanks to Cathriona Russell for the wonderful guided tour of The Chester Beatty Library and to the trustees of the Chester Beatty Library for the use of the images below. www.cbl.ie © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. |
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Member's Dinner in Palazzo, Bray Seafront 16th Feb 2010 |
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| Roland Byrne Watercolour February 9th 2010 Roland was born in Dublin and studied fine art under Professor Yann Reynard Goulet. His innovative methods and style create landscapes of Ireland that convey effects that are both subtle and dramatic. He has exhibited in , the Kilkenny Arts Week, Eigse, Carlow, Art Ireland and in many group shows.
Roland’s work is collected widely and his work is in the collections of the Irish Defence Forces, the ESB, the Bank of America, many hotels and may be seen in select Galleries. |
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Frances Breen Calligraphy January 12th 2010 Frances Breen was born in Wexford and lives and works in Austria and Ireland. She graduated in Graphic Design from the National College of Art and Design and then specialised in calligraphy, studying lettering and bookbinding in Austria and Germany. She is a guest tutor in the Department of Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. Frances has worked on An Leabhar Mor which is a 21st– century Book of Kells that brings together the work of more than 150 poets, visual artists, and calligraphers. Frances led a team of 10 calligraphers who worked on the book. |
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