Workshops & Events

Our Christmas lunch was a resounding success again this year, lovely food as usual and great conversation!

Margaret accepting flowers and chocolates in appreciation of her generous hosting of the Coffee Morning which was in aid of St.Vincent de Paul

Our first Workshop of 2020
was with Gill Smyth
She did a seascape in oils mostly with a pallet knife, she came back on February 14th and did the second half of the painting, it was most interesting to see her changing the landscape, we hope to see her again in the future for another great painting session.

Gill taking a look at our some of our paintings in our 2020 calendar

The unfinished painting at the end of the first workshop

We had our first Workshop of the year on Friday the 25th January 2019 with Dorothee Roberts
She demonstrated how to use only two colours to paint with. She used Red and Green for this Demo but said that you could use either Blue and Orange or Yellow and Purple, with this method it is possible not to ever get a muddy result. White was also used for lightening and Black in a small way too. The colours used are all complimentary colours. The palette below shows the different variations that she got using just these colours. At times she used other colours like yellow but they had to be mixed with the original colour before painting on the canvas.
It was a very enjoyable morning and we all learnt a lot and hopefully will try to practise painting with just two complimentary colours on our next Friday painting session.

Jack Cornhouse thanking Margaret for allowing us to hold our coffee Morning and Exhibition in the Perfect Cup again this year. 2019

Gill starting the painting

progressing nicely, a beautiful sky is added

The end of the second session with just a little bit to do.

Finished Painting

We had a very good turn out at our Annual Coffee Morning on Friday 23rd November. Everyone enjoyed themselves and a lot of money was raised for St. Vincent de Paul. We each had a painting on display from our latest 2019 calendar along with one other painting. The photo above shows Marian Murphy our Chairperson thanking everyone for supporting such a good cause. Our paintings will be on display until the 4th January.

Our wonderful Christmas lunch at The Perfect Cup on 7th December 2018

Caroline Smith did a workshop with us in May. We all took part in using Flax and also Silk cocoon waste to make very interesting art. We had great fun and learnt a lot about using textiles and some of us are sure to go ahead and explore these mediums more in the future.

More festive cheer at the Bandon Art Group 2018 Christmas lunch!

Jennifer McAuliffe was with us in April and did a lovely demo of a landscape in acrylic. I have taken photos at different stages to show how it was done.

1. Getting started

3. A little more drawing with the brush

5. The sky

7. Building up the background

Bandon Art Group Chairperson Marian Murphy with Jennifer after the demonstration

2. Putting down a few lines and markers

4. Adding colour

6. The trees go in

The finished work

The inspiration for the painting

Jack Cornhouse one of the members of our group, very kindly did a demonstration in pastels for us last Friday. He was very interesting and entertaining and we enjoyed it very much, below are some photos of Jack at work, we learnt a lot from him, and hope to see another demo in the near future. Thanks a million Jack.

The finished painting

The Inspiration for the painting

Cora Murphy came to us in February and inspired us all with her abstract landscape painting. It was a great workshop and we all got to try out her ideas painting along with her. Hopefully it will give us some confidence to try more abstract paintings in the future.

Cora showing us one of her tecniques

Victor Richardson giving a demonstration on 27th January to get the year 2017 off to a good start with new inspiration. He did the painting below using pastels.

Finished painting in pastels

Reference photo

Starting the drawing

putting down the first bit of colour

The top of the painting filled in, but more to be done

Finished drawing

Working across the page from left to right

Victor giving us some tips.

2017 Workshop with Louise McKowen

Louise demonstrating her technique

Nearly finished - Watercolour

Workshop with Dorothee Roberts 2017

Workshop with Andrew Carroll, January 2016

Children having a lot of fun painting at our workshop as part of Bandon Engage Festival at the Riverview Centre

workshop with Rose Foley

some of our group enjoying the demonstration

Some finished works and works in progress by Rose Foley

workshop with Cora Murphy

Cora showing us some of her techniques

Everyone taking a great interest in Cora's work

Beautiful Autumn shades, a painting that Rose Foley is working on at the moment

(this is the unfinished piece that Cora was working on)

Kerry Collins showing us how it's done at our last workshop with her.

some of the group enjoying the workshop

One of Kerry's paintings, she brought along to explain how to paint the abstract behind the boats

the finished painting

some of us brought our knives the following week -Yvonne's pallet knife painting in progress

Kerry helping some of the group at her workshop on Friday Oct. 11th

Kerry showing us how it's done

We had a very busy morning trying out some of Cora Murphy's techniques, it was very inspiring, we could have stayed there all day!
The time passed all too quickly and we found that we really wanted to do more. We have decided to do some more abstract painting next week when we will have more time to think about and practise some of the different ideas that she gave us.

Kerry's painting of VW camper van with collage under the van.

Peg Quinlin's workshop was very inspiring, she used a pallette knife to paint and completed the whole painting in the morning.

Peg finishing off her masterpiece

Peg very kindly gave us the painting to raffle and Sue was the very lucky winner!

Everyone looking on with great interest while Peg shows us how to paint with the pallet knife

Yvonne's finished painting all done in the one day Well done!

Kerry Collins came and gave us another of her inspiring workshops on Friday October 11th - we enjoyed the last one sooo much !!

Kerry explaining the technique in one of her latest paintings

Our May 2013 workshop with Kerry Collins
'Enhancing the light in your paintings'

We had a wonderful workshop with Kerry Collins who came to teach us how to enhance the light in our paintings. She brought some of her own work in progress to demonstrate on - they were huge canvases of cows which were fantastic! - we were just so sorry that Evelyn one of our members who paints cows very often was away on holidays !! Eat your heart out Ev !!

For the second half or the workshop Kerry helped those who had brought work in for advise which went down very well we were all inspired by Kerrys bubbly approach which makes everything look so easy . We were also really interested to find she has peared everything back down to the basics and uses just 3 colours and white to make all she needs. It looks like we will have to take on the challenge and spend some time soon doing just that- should be fun !

Kerry explaining some of her techniques to some of the group

Freda working on her painting after receiving valuable advice

Marian finishing her painting

Kerry shows us some more techniques

an unfinished work, to explain more techniques

Freda, Yvonne, Tish and Sue taking it all in

A big painting that Kerry finished to explain glazing and light

One of the pieces that Kerry was working on

Our March 2013 workshop with Hilary Nunan.......

"Texture and Colour"

We enjoyed a very interesting workshop - "Exploring Colour and Texture through the use of natural fibres" with local Artist Hilary Nunan, who really took us out of our comfort zones and stretched our creativity! Have a look at Hilary's own work on www.hilarynunan.ie

We were all fascinated with her unusual use of handmade paper to create her very individual textured pieces. Hilary has developed this technique herself based on lots experimentation until she got these great results.

Hilary discussing the workshop with some of our group

Yvonne painting two at a time

Rose trying to get it right

beautiful colour combinations of Hilary's work

Hilary explaining one of her techniques to Marianne

Lynda and Valerie deep in concentration

Tish enjoying the texture

Freda, Evelyn , Marian and Sue enjoying the challenge

Some examples of Hilary's work.