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AMATEUR artists from all over Ireland will be making their way to Lisdoonvarna later this month for the third annual Outdoor Landscape Painting Competition.
The event, which is organised each years by the Burren Painting Centre, aims to build on the success of the last two years and attract a host of artists from across Ireland and be- yond to take part.
This year’s competing artists will battle it out to win €3,000 worth of prizes at the event.
The Burren Painting Centre has collected a record amount of spon- sorship for this year’s event with the overall winner receiving a top prize of €300 cash, a three-day painting break and framing of the winning ele
This weekend of art will commence on the evening of Friday, May 22 with an oil painting demonstration by well-known Bray artist, Fergal Flanagan from 8.30pm in the studio of the Burren Painting Centre.
The amateur artists will register on the Saturday morning bright and early at the Lisdoonvarna National
School. They will then choose a lo- cation from the three options given them, check on the map and head off and start to paint.
The locations will be kept strictly secret before the beginning of the competition but they will all be lo- cated within a 10-mile radius of Lis- doonvarna. The competing artists will have until 6pm that evening to return with their completed entries.
All the paintings will be judged on the Sunday morning by professional artists, Patricia O’Breartuin and Frank Sanford. Both of these artists have been regular tutors at the Bur-
ren Painting Centre over many years and are enthusiasts of ‘en plein air’ orenonlauetee
Local artist Lorraine Wall, from Ennis, will conduct a drawing work- shop in the studio at the Burren Painting Centre while the judging takes place. The contestants will meet for lunch and the prize giving at The King Thomond Hotel in Lis- doonvarna.
More details and entry forms are available from Chris O’Neill at the Burren Painting Centre, Lisdoonvar- na, info@burrenpaintingcentre.com or phone 065 7074208.