The Dublin Painting & Sketching Club annual exhibition has opened in the Concourse Gallery in County Hall, Dun Laoghaire.
![Aidan Hickey, the new president of the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club with exhibiting artist Brid Clarke at the opening (Photo Pat Clarke)](http://irishartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dpsca-300x264.jpg)
Over 100 contemporary Irish artists, including RHA members, are showing more than 300 oil and watercolour paintings, pastels and drawings, at the exhibition. The Dublin & Painting & Sketching Club, founded in 1874, is one of Ireland’s oldest artist bodies.
In celebration of 1916, this year’s exhibition offers a number of special paintings on the theme of ‘A 100 Years of Irish Writing 1916 – 2016’ with a visual tribute to a centenary of Irish literature.
![At the opening (Photo Pat Clarke)](http://irishartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/dpscb-300x233.jpg)
The exhibition is free to the public and continues until Saturday 21st May.