Spring Painting Competition
February 2025 and it’s time for the G.A.G. members to celebrate spring. This time the invitation was issued to submit an urban landscape. Any medium, but in colour.
The judging was left to Kayla Martell who was treating members to an oil painting workshop.
Breda Mathews’ nightscape was selected by Kayla as her favourite piece. Below is Breda’s lovely painting, as well as all other submitted paintings.
Breda Mathews

A delighted Breda, in front of her picture.
Breda & Kayla

Breda Mathews (the winning artist) and Kayla Martell (judge and artist)
The G.A.G. annual drawing competition
The annual drawing competition was reinstated in 2024. Greystones Art Group members were invited to submit a black & white drawing, using pencil, pen or charcoal, but not using any colour. Choice of theme was open. Works were submitted on April 8th, 2024.
Breda Mathews was thrilled to scoop the perpetual trophy with her drawing of a child in charcoal. Second place was taken by Anita D’Arcy and a shared third place went to Adrienne Southern, Evelyn Moorkens and Deirdre McKernan Crosby.

The the winning entry.











An Irish Spring
In February 2024 the members of the Greystones Art Group were invited to submit a piece of work with their vision of an Irish Spring.
The submission date coincided with a colour mixing workshop given by Sinead Lawless and Sinead was asked to pick her favourite painting from the selection.
Patricia O’Neill was the delighted artist picked, with a wonderful depiction in oil of the lambing season in Ireland. Below you can see Patricia’s and all other wonderful art works.
The Winner!

Winner Patricia O’Neill congratulated by Sinead Lawless, who was giving a colour mixing workshop.
Lambing Time

The Winning Entry
Patricia O’Neill
Oil
Irish Spring

Sinead Wyse
Brush pen & ink
Primroses after Roberta

Irene Dixon
Watercolour
Emergence

Jenny McCauley
Oil on board
An Irish Hare

Breda Mathews
Charcoal
An Irish Spring

Cinnie Moran
Watercolour
The Circle

Jenny McCauley
Acrylic on board
Spring Love

Anita D’Arcy
Oil on board
Promise of a Crumble

Mary Nohilly
Pastels
An Irish Spring

Margaret Greene
Oil
Simple Life

Margaret Greene
Oil
Spring

Adrienne Southern
Oil on canvas
Daffodils

Adrienne Southern
Watercolour
Snowdrops

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
Owls

Maureen O’Shea
Oils
Green Eyes

Patricia Allison
Pencil and coloured pencil
The Bluebell Woods

Marion Reynolds
Samples of Snowdrops

Patricia Allison
Ink, pastel, chalk, watercolour & pastel
Love is in the air

Marion Reynolds
Primroses in Spring

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
Dreams and Reality
This theme came from the idea that there is always a connection with the timeless, no matter what is happening in our outer world. We can create our reality in our dreams and express those dreams in paintings. These paintings were created by our members while we were in lockdown in spring 2020.
Serenity

Goretti Murphy
Oil on Canvas
46cm × 35cm
Dreams of Faraway Places

Evelyn Moorkens
Acrylic and Mixed Media
35cm × 35cm
Dreaming of Ben Bulben

Evelyn Moorkens
Acrylic and Mixed Media
29cm × 20cm
Dreaming of Italy – Series (1 of 3)

Sinead Wyse
Acrylic on Canvas
30cm × 40cm
Dreaming of Italy – Series (2 of 3)

Sinead Wyse
Acrylic on Canvas
40cm × 30cm
Dreaming of Italy – Series (3 of 3)

Sinead Wyse
Acrylic on Canvas
30cm × 40cm
There’s Always One

Ian Killeen
Acrylic on Canvas
75cm × 50cm
Not Reality

Joyce Maher
Watercolour
46cm × 35cm
Wish I Was There

Joan Dobbyn
Acrylic on Canvas
6.5cm × 6.5cm
Dreams – Series (1 of 3)

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
36cm × 25cm
Dreams – Series (2 of 3)

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
36cm × 25cm
Dreams – Series (3 of 3)

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
36cm × 25cm
Dreaming of Flowers

Patricia Allison
Watercolour
30cm × 21cm
Ladies in Lockdown Summer 2020

Adrienne Southern
Acrylic on Board
46cm × 35cm
Marine Transition

Ian Killeen
Carborundum print on Fabriano Paper
28cm × 20cm
Dazzle of Zebras

Goretti Murphy
Oil on Canvas
42cm x 75cm
When I am among the Trees

Cinnie Moran
Watercolour
28cm x 30cm
Wood Walk

Cinnie Moran
Watercolour
45cm x 23cm
Flight and Freedom
Following on from the previous theme, it is possible to be free to create in your inner world, even when you are restricted in your outer world. Here are some paintings by our members, depicting freedom. Also created during spring lockdown 2020.
Golf Ball’s Flight To Freedom

Joyce Maher
Oil on Canvas
60cm x 60cm
Peanuts in Boats

Patricia Allison
Watercolour
30cm x 21cm
Feathers

Evelyn Moorkens
Collagraph
20cm x 14cm
Long Tailed Tit

Evelyn Moorkens
Shibori Dye and Stitching
29cm x 20cm
Flight to Freedom

Drusilla Cleary
Watercolour
26cm x 36cm
Butterflies in Flight

Patricia Allison
Pastel and Watercolour
23cm x 26cm
Farewell Swallows

Adrienne Southern
Acrylic and Mixed Media
40cm x 40cm
Fly like an Eagle

Ian Killeen
Chalk Pastel on Paper
29cm x 20cm
Bee Happy

Ian Killeen
Etching and Hand Coloured
12cm x 7cm
Flight

Biddy Scott
Oil on Canvas
60cm x 60cm
Sail to Freedom

Avril Gallagher
Oil on Canvas
30cm x 40cm
Sailing to Freedom

Goretti Murphy
Oil on Canvas
25cm x 35cm
Flying High

Sinead Wyse
Acrylic on Canvas
70cm x 50cm
My Favourite Poem
A self-explanatory theme. Members selected their favourite poem and created a painting reflecting their vision about the poem. These paintings were created in 2013.
How Dear to Me the Hour

Brenda Clausard
“How Dear To Me The Hour” by Thomas Moore
A Short Story of Falling

Maire Kerr
“A Short Story Of Falling” by Alice Oswald
The Road Not Taken

Cinne Moran
“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost
The Owl and the Pussycat

Katie Magee
“The Owl and the Pussycat” by Edward Lear
The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Deirdre Hannon
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats
The Fallen Tree

Gerry Parle
“The Fallen Tree” by Alfred Castner King
The Lake Isle of Innisfree

Walter Bernardini
“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by W.B. Yeats
The Eagle

Trudi Kiang
“The Eagle” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Brook

Mary Nohilly
“The Brook” by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lamb

Imelda Hutchinson
“The Lamb” by William Blake
Sunset at Renvyle

Avril Price Gallagher
“Sunset at Renvyle” by Percy French
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Anne McWilliams
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
On his Blindness

Irene Dixon
“On his Blindness” by John Milton
Memory of My Father

Gabrielle Conroy
“Memory of My Father” by Patrick Kavanagh
Hy-Brasil

Carrie Mullins
“Hy-Brasil” by Gerald Griffin
Daffodils

Fiona Godfrey
“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
“Hope” is the thing with feathers

Patricia Allison
“Hope” is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickenson
The Listeners

Nicola Sedgwick
“The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare
Easter 1916

Bea Jordan
“Easter 1916” by W.B. Yeats
He wishes for Cloths of Heaven

Rosa Savino
“He wishes for Cloths of Heaven” by W.B. Yeats
Ozymandias

Biddy Scott
“Ozymandias” by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sea Fever

Jim O Neill
“Sea Fever” by John Masefield
Daffodils

Drusilla Cleary
“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth