Spent most of Sunday painting outdoors with a group called the plein Eire painting group. Some very good painters, it is nice to be working with a group as advice is available if you need it or not if you do not.
Got there at 10 ish had some coffee, walk chat and stopped at 1 for lunch went home at 5ish. Not as happy as the last day in Inistiogue.
Well we had great fun. The children were quiet, I wonder how long that will Last!!
I showed them the some of my bags. The principal and teachers told me not to give too much choice or nothing would get done, so I gave them the choice of a chicken or butterfly. They had great fun drawing these and then tracing the images in the wax on the bags and then the COLOUR, that is when they got it and were very happy.
This is my idea of a happy outcome. Next time we are going to get the children to plan the design themselves and have their ideas ready for me when I get back. We still have to pin down the theme though next week will give us a clue to that I think!!
Well I started with a group of women in Rosbercon just over the bridge from New Ross. I only have 3 sessions with them,but you never know where these things go. they want craft so we just did some simple applique work with felt, a getting to know each other session. We will do Batik for the next session and will see what they want for the last one. they did not even stop for tea break, did stop for a few fags though1!!
Two of them are pregnant and a couple are mothers and daughters, the lady organising is doing literacy work with some of them so the group is broken up. Next session there will be more of them.
Here are some photos of the work on day one!
Well I have been busy lately even though I did lose one of my favourite jobs for the time being, St Patricks. the old funding story!!!!!!!
However ‘ a door closes and another opens’, it allowed me to do the animation with Vannessa daws see her blog http://no72.wordpress.com/author/vanessadaws/
I cannot get any video to upload due to useless broadband connection! The drawback to living in a beauty spot.
I also had a planning meeting with the School of the Holy Spirit last week through the Butler Gallery and that starts next week. It is so exciting they have this amazing sensory gardens so one we will do hopefully is make butterflies to live in it, probably in this honeycomb shaped tent that they have! Oh I cannot wait.
WE will have 12 hours contact time in total so after next week we will need to pin it down to make sure we have something to show at the end. I am happy to be pure process but children need something to show at the end to cement the experiences in their minds and to allow parents and others to see what they have done.
The idea is that week one is an introductory session where we make something nice and in the process we all get to know each other and get an idea of what we can do. We are going to batik cotton bags from Aldi probably with a butterfly theme. I am getting a feeling of something to do with the garden, I hope to put some shots up of it if I can get them off my phone!
Geraldine and Jean Pipes and Woven piece.
I will take more shots of this and put them up next week.
When I get a chance I get up to the studio and play with fabric and paint and bits. Am doing some fun stuff with acrylic mediums onto fabric, just got to get the system worked out!!!
Wow I have been busy since here last. Had a show in the Watergarden,Thomastown, Co kilkenny. it was well received. am moving on from that work for the moment. I am going to concentrate on portraits or try to anyway!!
For this month I am giving myself time runinate, reconstruct and even vegetate a bit. I am using the time to get to grips with the whole ‘good life’ thing…pickling cucumbers( badly.. too much salt..) still there are loads left!! preserving beetroot, freezing….basil, broad beans, beans, plenty of time to think and play with ideas in my head.
Put some work into the St Lukes hospital inKilkenny for the Arts Festival, some really good work in there I think. Saw some good work in Thomastown. interesting piece of Collaborative art inBerkeley Gallery. Must contact that girl Gabriella was her name.
Went to the theatre twice this week! twice more than in the last twelve years. Very good, one with The witches to see Fergus( old flame) in krappps last tapes I have to say he was impressive, then to a play by an American tcrowd …lucia’s Chapters, very inspirational. I want to get involved in theatre now!!!
Any way have to go and get the beans ready to freeze than leave some paintings to th Mullachain cafe in St Mullins.
I will be back sooner next time
Well I am flat out. Have just finished fetac drawing course in Carlow. I do not enjoy assessing peoples work but was not as bad at it as I thought. Am into second week with Butler Gallery residncy with Mullinavat School. We are doing a mapping/planning project of the village. Been up to the village to photograph, record the village and look for street furniture etc. today we drew up a plan of the whole thing, Friday we will start to make it up!!
I will add some images when I work out how to.
Well I have been so busy since the middle of January. I had a fantastic week in London on a workshop with Jennifer McRae the winner of the Singer Friedlander Watercolour award last year. It was so good to meet up with people of a similar level for and I think that I learnt lots just need the time to put it into serious action. I will upload some images as soon as I get the time.
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