Dates – Friday 26th – Sunday 28th May 2023. Meet at the Market House each morning for coffee and refreshments, introductions and demonstrations. Finishing the day with refreshments and peer critique.
The Market House is booked exclusively 9am – 5pm for the duration of the festival for use by participants. Kitchen and toilets available.
Feel free to return to the Market House to relax at lunchtime or see our ‘Links’ page for ideas to eat out etc.
Friday 26th May
Artist: Rosie McClelland
Medium: Acrylics, pastel
Location: Market House, Ferry St, Shore Rd, Castle St.
- 9.30am: registration and refreshments at Market House.
- 10am: Introduction and demo by Rosie McClelland
- 11am: start painting – The Square, Ferry Street, Shore Road, Castle Street – Rosie will visit participants throughout the day.
- 4pm Return to Market House for critique and prize giving.
Saturday 27th May
Artist: Paul O’Kane
Medium: Oils
Location: Cook St Quay
- 9.30am: registration and refreshments at Market House.
- 10am: Introduction and demo by Paul O’Kane
- 11am: start painting – The Old Quay and Cook Street – Paul will visit participants throughout the day.
- 4pm – Return to Market House for critique and prize giving.
Sunday 28th May
Artist: Rosie McGurran
Medium: Mixed media. Mixed media, working on paper using pencil, watercolour, crayon, ink and acrylic.
Location: Windmill Hill
- 9.30am registration and refreshments at Market House.
- 10am Introduction and demo by Rosie McGurran
- 11am: start painting, Windmill Hill – Rosie will visit participants throughout the day.
- 4pm. All participants to gather at the Market House for concluding reception and to view all works created during the three day festival. Refreshments will be provided and spot prizes will be awarded!
About the visiting artists
Rosie McClelland
Day one – Friday 26th May
Rosie has been involved in art education since 1976 and running private art groups since 1991. She has been creating work and exhibiting her paintings throughout the province, she also runs workshops and sketching holidays.
Rosie is interested in the formal elements of drawing and painting i.e. line, tone, shape, form and colour and the technical skills of the main forms of media e.g. oils, acrylics, pastels, watercolour, gouache, charcoal, collage etc, but also encourages experimentation in style.
“My work is first and foremost intimate and reflective, a personal response to my subject matter.
My chosen method of working is figurative, weaving underlying abstract forms into reality and, in the process, creating a sense of presence – a vibration”
https://rosiemcclelland.co.uk/
Paul O’Kane
Day two – Saturday 27th May
Paul O’Kane is a retired architect and now a ‘plein air’ painter and tutor who spends summer months tutoring small groups in Europe on painting holidays and have many years ex- perience giving painting demonstrations and workshops in all mediums to Irish art groups. Demonstrations take under an hour.
He paints in watercolour, oils, acrylics and gouache and is a
multi award winner and article writer for various printed
media.
Paul has had many solo and group shows and is a keen ‘Urban Sketcher’ and a regular watercolour tutor at the annual international plein-air art fair ‘Art in the Open’, Wexford.
Instagram #paulokaneart
Rosie McGurran
Day three – Sunday 28th May
Rosie McGurran RUA is a Belfast born artist who lives and works in the village of Roundstone in Connemara. Her plein air practice is an integral part of her work which engages with the natural and built environment. Her aims are not to create realistic depictions but to dig deeper using a wide range of mediums to explore the potential of drawing and painting from observation.
https://www.rosiemcgurran.com/
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