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I recently visited Padraig McCaul in his studio in County Wicklow. The studio is down a country lane in the loft of a converted farm outhouse that he shares with artist Denise Hussey. Unlike most other artists that I know, Padraig embraces the business side of his art career. A lot of artists just want…
This annual Art Fair took place earlier this month in the RDS. The art fair (Ireland’s largest) hosted 130 exhibitors from Ireland, South Africa, Belgium, Mongolia, Canada and the UK and featured a range of paintings, sculpture, prints and photography.
Tonight (14th September) saw the opening in the Dalkey Heritage Centre of “Familiar Places” – a solo exhibition by Deborah Donnelly featuring colourful landscape paintings from South County Dublin: Sandycove, Dun Laoghaire and the odd cow, chicken or pig! The exhibition also features work by her mother Clare O’Farrell. The exhibition continues until Sunday 17th…
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Peoples Art 2011 was on again this weekend (24-26 June) on the railings of three sides of Stephen’s Green in Dublin 2. The event is organised for times a year by People’s Art Dublin – a voluntary, part time, non profit making group, brought together by Dublin City Council to promote the visual arts to…
There was a great turn out in the Blackrock Market Cafe this evening (Tuesday 10th May) for the opening of Veronica Heywood’s exhibition of mythological landscapes. The exhibition (curated by Tony Strickland) was opened by Lettie McCarthy, Cathaoirleach of Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council. The exhibition continues until June 19th.