A Portrait of Monasterevin.
Introducing an exciting two morning workshop, each two hours in duration. Hosted by Artist Gill Berry, the workshops will introduce you to the excitement of leisure painting in the medium of oil paint. You are asked to bring your favorite photographs of Monasterevin, as a source of inspiration for your painting. All the art materials are supplied by the Festival Organisers and you get to take your work of art home.
Your tutor, Gill Berry owns “Downalong” Art Studios, near the National Stud in Kildare. She runs Art Classes for both children and adults in an athmosphere idyllic for the creative individual. This is an opportunity for you to experience her unique teaching methods.
Art Portfolio Course
This course facilitated by Arisit Siobhan Conway, will enable you to broaden and strenghten your creative abilities while examining the requirements of portfolio submission for entry to Art College.
You will be encouraged to explore your world and use experimentation to broaden and strengthen your creative ability in order to inform your ideas.
Over the three mornings, all students will rotate through the following workshops:-
Workshop 1: Mind Mapping (Please bring an A4 artist notebook)
Workshop 2: Research and Idea development, using sketchbooks to record visual inspiration, influences and ideas.
Workshop 3: Students will have the opportunity to bring in their current portfolios for advice on selection and presentation of the work.
The Art Portfolio Course will be of particular interest to Art Students- Secondary and Third Levels.
Creative Writing Workshop
Our festival writer in residence Pat Boran has been conducting creative writing workshops throughout Ireland for some many years, and his writers’ handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop, is widely used by writing groups in Ireland and abroad. This Festival Workshop taking place over two days, will offer participants practical approaches to getting raw material down on paper and with how to go about revising and editing it later. Participants need no previous writing or publishing experience but would be advised to feed the cat before leaving the house in case the writing bug spirits them away.
Booking details will be advised from 1st May 2010 onwards
