INVITED ARTISTS, THEIR WORKSHOPS & DEMONSTRATIONS
All workshops are €60 each
STEVE BROWNING
Acrylics
Workshops:
Sunday, 21st July, 2pm, Carne Beach and Harbour.
Thursday, 25th July, 10.30am, Tintern Abbey.
Steve’s Website: http://www.stevebrowning.net/
Steve studied at the Leicester School of Art and Design and worked in London and Dublin as an advertising art director before painting full time in 2002. Steve has exhibited in London, the Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin and the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. In 2018 and 2019 Steve won prizes at the Dublin Plein Air Festival. In 2018 Steve won Bronze and in 2019 Silver at the Wexford Art in the Open festival. He has been a finalist in the prestigious Plein Air Magazine of America’s annual plein air painting competition in 2020 and 2021, winning the best acrylic painting award in 2022
Steve will share tips on composition and the flexibility of acrylics to change colours and alter perspective.
VALERIE CRAIG
Oils
Workshops:
Sunday, 21st July, 10.30am, Carne Beach and Harbour.
Tuesday, 23rd July, 2pm, Hook Head.
Valerie’s Website: https://www.valeriecraig.com/
Valerie Craig is a respected and dedicated artist and teacher. Known for her expressive brushwork, Valerie paints primarily from life, seeking to create a simple strong design, and convey the unique light and atmosphere of a particular place. She is captivated by the outdoors, and is especially inspired by changing weather conditions.
Valerie's numerous awards include Gold, Silver and Artists' Choice in Wexford's Art in the Open. With more than 30 years in the field, she has had many solo shows and teaches around the USA and Ireland. Like most artists, Craig continues to be a student of art, always reaching for a higher level of excellence, while discovering and expressing her own voice.
Just Us Chickens
Over Easy
Peony Bliss
Connemara
VINCENT CROTTY
Oils
Workshops:
Wednesday, 24th July, 10.30am. Graiguenamanagh.
Thursday, 25th July, 8pm, Wexford Quay (Nocturne).
Vincent’s Website: https://vincentcrotty.com
Vincent Crotty is an Irish-born artist living in Boston. Regarded for his landscape and figurative paintings, he paints with fluid brushstrokes, sensitive color, and a remarkable understanding of light-transforming everyday subject matter into images that are memorable and moving.
Vincent has been exhibiting his work for over 30 years, primarily in the US and Ireland. His paintings been recognized with awards from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the John Stobart Foundation in Boston, and many plein air competitions internationally. Recently he won First Place, Overall in the April/May 2017 PleinAir Salon Art Competition.
Vincent has given workshops and demos in Colorado, New York, Wyoming, Nova Scotia, Wexford (Ireland), and throughout Massachusetts, and he teaches weekly classes at the New Art Center in Newton, Massachusetts. His paintings have been presented as gifts to former Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn and to former President of Ireland Mary McAleese. His portrait paintings been commissioned by the Boston College Burns Library, the Irish Cultural Center of New England, and the Michael J. Quill Cultural Centre in New York.
In addition, Vincent has created set designs for theater companies and touring productions including Atlantic Steps, the Cork City Ballet, the Huntington Theater Company, Kieran Jordan Dance company, the WGBH Christmas Celtic Sojourn, and his paintings were used on the set for the Clint Eastwood movie Mystic River.
Liscannor Twilight
HAI-OU HOU
Oils
Workshops:
Monday, 22nd July, 2pm, Wells House.
Wednesday, 24th July, 10.30am. Graiguenamanagh.
Hai-Ou’s Website: https://www.haiouhoufineart.com/
Hai-Ou Hou was born in Beijing where she studied painting and ceramics at the prestigious Central Institute of Fine Art and Design. She accepted a teaching post at the Hubei Fine Art Institute where she taught painting and design. After immigrating to the United States, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Towson University.
Hai-Ou's work has been widely published and exhibited both nationally and internationally and hangs in many museum, corporate, and private collections. She is the recepient of numerous fine arts honors and awards
NANCY MACDONALD
Oils
Workshops:
Tuesday, 23rd July, 10.30am, Hook Head.
Wednesday, 24th July, 2pm. Graiguenamanagh.
Nancy’s Website: https://www.nancymacdonald.com/
After graduating with an Art degree from the UK, I moved to the US where I have lived and painted for the last twenty years.
Signifiant influences on my development include studying under two amazing artists: Bob Gerbracht and Jove Wang, as well as traveling to Russia to see the great Russian paintings.
I am drawn to strong colour and and the intense feelings it can evoke. I like to exaggerate colour and push it as far as I can whilst staying within the realms of possibility. For that reason, I love to use the contrasting mediums of oil and pastel.
I continue to paint from models as well as pleinair landscapes, simply because for me live subjects generate a strong response.
KEVIN MACPHERSON
Oils
Workshops:
Sunday, 21st July, 2pm, Carne Beach and Harbour.
Thursday, 25th July, 10.30am, Tintern Abbey.
Kevin’s Website: https://www.kevinmacpherson.com/
Kevin is recognized as one of America's most accomplished Impressionistic plein air painters. His discipline and dedication have earned him critical success and numerous awards for his artwork. He is a member of many top organizations and has been recognized for his accomplishments and influence, including Master Oil Painters of America, Master American Impressionists Society, Master member California Art Club, member of the Salmagundi Club and Founding member and first president of the Plein Air Painters of America.
Kevin is the author of four well-known books on plein air painting: 'Fill Your Oil Paintings With Light & Colour', 'Landscape painting Inside and Out', 'Conversations With Nature' and 'Reflections on a Pond: A Visual Journal'.
ANTTI RAUTIOLA
Oils
Workshops:
Sunday, 21st July, 10.30am, Carne Beach and Harbour.
Tuesday, 23rd July, 10.30am, Hook Head.
Antti’s Website: https://www.anttirautiola.fi/
Antti Rautiola (b.1976) is a Finnish artist who started painting before the age of ten when he received an oil painting set as a gift from his grandparents.
He has had mentors from Florence Acadamy, Russian school of painting and also from the animation industry, where he is also actively working as computer-graphics supervisor.
Being an enthusiastic landscape painter he has been keeping plein air workshops in the Europe´s biggest landscape painting festival in Ireland "Art In The Open". Besides Plein air landscapes, his favorite subjects are figurative paintings of children.
Antti describes himself as an impressionistic realist.
He is inspired by the works of artists of the 19th century such as fellow Finns Albert Edelfelt, Helene Schjerfbeck and their contemporaries, the American John S. Sargent, Russian Isaak Levitan and Swedish Anders Zorn
BARRY JOHN RAYBOULD
Oils
Workshops:
Monday, 22nd July, 10.30am, Wells House.
Tuesday, 23rd July, 2pm, Hook Head.
Barry’s Website: https://www.barryjohnraybould.com/
Barry John Raybould, M.A. (Cantab) is an English award-winning, professional artist who works primarily in oils. His work is a contemporary fusion of impressionistic and expressionistic styles that integrates color, design and brushwork to convey a strong sense of mood and feeling. Raybould mostly paints plein air, seeking inspiration for his paintings from all around the world.
In the late 90's he was one of the group of Central Coast California artists known as the ‘Informalists’.
He is an artist member of the prestigious California Art Club, one of the oldest professional art organizations in the United States and his work has been exhibited in several museums in the United States and China, including the Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA).
For many years he authored a regular column on how to paint for International Artist Magazine, one of the largest and most well well respected art instruction magazines distributed worldwide. He has also taught over 5000 artists via his Virtual Art Academy: a program of structured online lessons on how to paint.
He continues to travel the world, looking for inspiration in unusual places, capturing disappearing cultures and natural and man-made landscapes that are under threat from development.
JAMES RICHARDS
Oils, Demo and talk format.
Workshops:
Monday, 22nd July, 2pm, Wells House.
Thursday, 25th July, 2pm, Tintern Abbey.
James’ Website: https://www.artistjamesrichards.com/
James Richards, (AISM), is an American Impressionist painter who specializes in oils.
He is a multiple winner in the American Impressionist Society's Annual Exhibition, being awarded Best of Show in 2015 for his painting "Little Chicks". He has also won many awards in national invitational Plein Air competitions.
James mentors and teaches workshops at his school in Tucker, GA, across the US, Europe and now online!
SEBASTIAN THOMMEN
Watercolours
Workshops:
Monday, 22nd July, 10.30am, Wells House.
Wednesday, 24th July, 2pm. Graiguenamanagh.
Sebastian’s Website: https://www.sebastianthommen.com/
I never pursued painting conventionally, as I wanted to explore more adrenaline fuelled experiences. Leaving home at 17 I went to become a watersports instructor, and taught windsurfing and white water kayaking around the South of France and Ireland. Then I became a dad, (got my fair share of adrenaline experiences with that too). I then studied theatrical drama and became an actor. (Back to enjoying getting reactions).
And I always had art accompanying me along the way, untainted by the pressures of any art college or the need to make a living from it. This has always kept it special. And I nurtured it organically as a passion, a secret gift, and as something I could turn to if things were tough and life was challenging. Art relaxes me and gets me in the now. Feeds the soul man.
As I get older I find myself digging a little deeper with my art. And I get lots of enjoyment sharing it with people along the way.
Fields Of Glory 15”x21”
Blackrock By The Convent 15”x21”
Imminent Rain 11”x15”