Grange Art Studio

Christmas Invite 2011

This years Sculpture in Context exhibition – 8th September  -  21st October –  celebrates 10 years at the National Botanics Gardens in Dublin. It showcases the work of established and new artists.

The gardens are not just a botanical haven and a quiet oasis on the outskirts of a modern European city, they also provide a challenging venue which gives the artists a rear opportunity to realise large scale work.

It gives the public the opportunity to ramble and explore, sometimes finding sculptures in the most unusual places.

Over 120 sculptures will be displayed throughout the gardens, the glasshouses and the gallery in the visitors’ centre.

My entry: “Cultural Dissipation with Receptacles” ( see photos in gallery) are displayed in the Curvilinear Glasshouse.

Botanic Gardens’ Opening times:

Monday  -  Friday  9am  -  5pm

Saturday  +  Sunday  10am  -  6pm

The second of a series of focus exhibitions of artists living and working in Co. Meath. FLOW brings together three artists whose work connects through concerns of colour, pattern and rhythm. Compositions are explored through fusion and transformation of oil, watercolour, wax and glass.
I am exhibiting (watercolour paintings and wax sculptures)with Patrick Fitzgerald (oil paintings) and Deirdre Rogers (glass art)

The exhibition opens on Thursday 10th February 2011 at 7.30 pm and continues until Friday 11th March 2011
Opening hrs: Tuesday – Saturday 11 am – 4 pm
Admission free

Solstice Art Centre
Railway Str.
Navan
Co. Meath

The Old Schoolhouse Art Groupe’s exhibition this autumn takes place at Trim Library,High Str., Trim, Co. Meath from Thursday 28th October until Saturday 13th November.

9 members are exhibiting recent art works in a variety of media at very affordable prices.

The Library is closed on Mondays, opens 10 am – 8.30 pm on Tuesday and Thursday and 10 am – 5pm(closed 1 – 2 pm) Wend, Frid. and Sat.

TRIPTYCH

Helene Malone,Una Ryan and I are three Meath artists from different backgrounds who met as members of local art groups – The Old Schoolhouse Art Group, Dunboyne and the Meath Arts Group.

Our interest in art and art education has over time cemented our friendship. A common passion for visual expression has led to a collaboration in terms of exhibiting our art work together under the title TRIPTYCH.

The body of work at this exhibition is a result of our attendance, since September 2009, at Dunboyne College of Further Education, FETAC Level 6, Art and Art Business course.
This is the only FETAC Level 6 course available in Co. Meath.

The subject matter is people and every day things in their lives. The work includes figurative paintings on paper, board and canvas in oils, acrylic and mixed media.

I have been a so busy since last summer that this website has been pushed further down the priority list each month.

Updating is now long overdue:

Art education:

I completed the art Portfolio course at Dunboyne College of Further Education in May 2009 and was selected for the Solstice Art Student of the Year award at the graduation seremony in September. Well done me !!!
I obtained a place at the Art and Art Business course (FETAC level 6) at DCFE.

I also obtained a place on the DVI (Drawing and Visual Investication ) Certificate course at NCAD (National College of Art and Designe)

As both courses are part-time (-they say) I decided I could manage both since I have “all the time in the world as a pensioner”.

In practice the courses has kept me busy 24/7 since last September, but enjoying every challenge.

The DVI course is now “hotting up” and we are preparing for completion of final drawing project before Easter.

The FETAC Art and Art Business will run until the end of May.

Samples of completed projects for both courses will be put up in the Gallery shortly.

Exhibitions:

Spirit of Dunboyne Festival October 2009

Dunboyne Christmas Exhibition, December 2009

Meath Arts Group Exhibition , Toradh Gallery, Ashbourne, December 2009

Sostice “In Between” Gallery, Navan, January 2010

While the exhibitions got a lot of attention and visitors it is evident that the recession has hit the art world and it is generally agreed that for the next year – or two – we will be busy making art and not selling too much.

Not complaining!

Upcoming Exhibitions:

07.04.10 – 20.04.10: Gallery space, Cabra Library, Dublin 7 – Spring Show – Old Schoolhouse Art Group

22.04.10 – 30.04.10: Gallery space, Cabra Library, dublin 7 – “Tripych” – Level 6 figurative paintings with 2 friends.

The Old School house Art Group, of which I am a member, are holding this years summer exhibition at Castletown House, Celbridge, co. Kildare.

Castletown House , Ireland’s finest Palladian mansion, built in the 1720s and recently restored by the OPW. are well worth a visit. You can enjoy guided tourse of the house throughout the day or a class of wine in the Kitchen restaurant or walled garden terrace. Bring good walking shoes if you enjoy long walks through the extensive parks and along the river.

In these historic surroundings the members of the art group are delighted to exhibit new paintings and art work in the Housekeeper’s Room.
The exhibition will be opened by The Hon. Desmond Guinness on Saturday 20th June at 2.30 pm

The Show will continue until Sunday 28th June and is open from 10 am – 5 pm every day (except Monday)

Castletown House and Park is located 20 km from Dublin on the M4 – take the Celbridge West exit and follow the sign for Castletown House.

Having submitted 3 paintings/textiles to the RHA’s (Royal Hibernian Academy) annual exhibition – and been rejected – one of my textile works  will be exhibited during the “The RHA Unselected Show” at the Bad Art Gallery, 79 Francis Str. , Dublin 8.

The show will be opened by Bertie Ahern , TD on Thursday 14th May , 6 – 8 pm and will run for 4 weeks

This years event for all interested Dunboyne artists opens on Saturday 13th December at 7 pm with mulled wine at the Old National School in the main square in Dunboyne, Co. Meath. The exhibition is also open on Sunday from 11 – 4. See you there.

A painting with images from my previouse life as a social worker was recently commissioned and here it is “Wheel of Change”  ; firstly the finished painting and then some of the details found within.