In September, 2003, I and ten other members of the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Painters (PSGNP) went on a three week self guided plien-aire painting tour of the west and south coasts of Ireland, beginning on the west coast at Shannon and concluding in Dublin. One of our members was born in Dublin and guided us along an "off the beaten track" tour of out-of-the-way villages from County Clare and County Kerry and the remote and craggy coast of the mountainous Dingle Peninsula and on to Counties Cork, Waterford, Carlow and Wicklow to Dublin. We tarried to paint and to inspect the quality of pub service in such places as Ballybunion, Tralee, An Duingean, Killarney, Cork, Dungarvan and Dublin.
Our goal? To paint an exhibit of work for a show to open on St. Patrick's Day, 2005 in Mukilteo, Washington (just a few miles north of Seattle). I and one other artist brought our pastels and small plien-aire French easels packed in custom made canvas "carry on" bags which included space to carry our supply of papers and colors. Our biggest challenge was the weather - which was humid, windy, and intermittently stormy. The paintings seen here were completed in my studio and are based on forteen 8" X 11" plien-aire paintings brought back from Ireland.
 

Show announcement:

Exhibit History of the Irish Odyssey Exhibit Featuring  12 psgnWp artist who made the painting trip to ireland in 2004

at point elliot art gallery Mukilteo WA March 2005

Arts of Snohomish Gallery 105 Cedar St. Snohomish, WA, 98290 September 1 - 30 2006

Arts of Snohomish
105 Cedar St.
Snohomish, WA 98290
September 1st through 30th 2006 
Reception September 1:00PM --  2:00 PM to 5:00 PM 

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Bally Bunion Castle and Beach
 County Kerry, Ireland

$900
 pastel
16.5" x 21.5"
 Ballybunion is located on the west coast of Ireland
 and is famed for its many fine golf courses.

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Dreenagh Farm
Dingle Peninsula,
County Kerry, Ireland

$900.00
pastel
16.5" x 21"
This farm is located on the north shore of the dingle peninsula,
the westernmost point of land of continental Europe.

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Annuscaul,
 Dingle Peninsula,
 County Kerry, Ireland
 $900.00
 pastel
 16.5" x 21"
 This village is located on the south shore of the Dingle Peninsula and typifies the rolling hills with ancient stone fenced in fields.

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Bally Bunion Greeting the Morning ©
Pastel
16" X 21"  image size

$900.00

Field Sketches

 

© Ballybunion Irish Beach Resort Plaien air field sketch $300 Pastel (13 x 9.5) painted between rain showers on a windy afternoon.	© Irish Sunset, Tarbert Ferry Landing Plein Air field sketch $300 Pastel (11 x 9.5) painted on a beautiful warm fall evening on the Shannon Estuary.
© Slea Head Abandoned Ruin, Dingle Peninsula Plein air field sketch $300 Pastel (12 x 9.5) Painted between rain showers with 30 + wind gusts. This was the stone ruins of a farm house abandoned during the great potato famine in the early 1800s.	© Slea Head Farmstead, Dingle Peninsula Plein air field sketch $300 Pastel (9 x 12) painted between rain showers with 25mph winds.
© Tarbert Evening at Dusk Plein air field sketch $300 Pastel (9 x 11.5)  painted on a beautiful warm fall evening on the Shannon Estuary.	©   Waterford Backstreet Plein air field sketch $300 Pastel (8.5 x 11.5)  painted between blustery weather fronts.

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