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THE second annual Outdoor Land- scape Painting Competition takes place this weekend in Lisdoonvar- na. After hosting Ireland’s first ever competition of its kind last year, the organisers have decided to expand this year’s event into a full weekend of activity.
The weekend artsfest, which 1s be- ing organised by the Burren Painting Centre, will attract 30 aspiring paint- ers for the competition and countless other for the weekend’s festivities.
“Last year was the first year and we ran a very successful competti-
tion on the Saturday. But this year we have tried to make it more into a weekend so we have more events organised which are taking place all over the weekend. So it’s going to be more of an artsfest this year,’ said Chris O’ Neill of the Burren Painting Centre.
“On the Friday evening we have a demonstration by the oil painter Fergal Flanagan from Wicklow. We are going to use the newly renovat- ed Town Hall for this. We will go straight from the demonstration into an exhibition of local artists curated by Doreen Drennan.
‘We have several professional art-
ists from this area who all paint in the Burren. So most of the art will be very relevant to north Clare and the Burren area. This exhibition will be on for 10 days and will be the first art exhibition in the new art space in the Town Hall pavilion.”
The competition will kick off on Saturday morning with painters be- ing whisked off to three secret lo- cations in the Burren to begin their ernonlmuetce
“We have 30 people at this stage and many of those will be doing nu- merous works. After registration we will give them the coice of the three locations, which are secret up until
that point,’ continued Chris.
“We give them a bit of advice and a map and off they go. That whole process is quite exciting – it’s like we have a bit of orienteering before we start painting. All paintings must then be in by 6pm for the judges to start their process.”
Judging will take place on Sunday morning while a drawing workshop will be conducted by Frank Sandford in the Burren Painting Centre.
The winning paintings will be dis- played at the King Thomand Hotel for a prize giving lunch where 12 prizes will be handed out. For more www.butrenpaintingcentre.com