Culture Night FREE EVENT!!!
Artist and Studio member Hilary Kinahan will demonstrate various printmaking techniques in the studio on Friday 23rd September at 7.00pm
Hilary Kinahan Is a visual artist living in Westmeath. Hilary studied Fine Art in Crawford College of Art & Design, followed by post grad in Art & Design in Education in Limerick College of Art & Design.
She taught for a number of years before taking time out from her career to focus on motherhood.
Five years ago she returned to teaching adult classes and joined Leinster Printmaking Studios in Clane Co.Kildare. Exhibiting her artwork in many group shows in Ireland, Italy, UK, Bulgaria.
Hilary won best emerging Artist award 2021 in the Luan Gallery Athlone, where earlier this year she held her first solo exhibition ‘Rapt’
Her work displays a connection between memory and place, the cycle of life and nature. Kinahan documents an ever changing landscape through photography, drawing and printmaking techniques, such as etching, drypoint collographs and monoprints. Barns and boglands being the most common elements in her artwork.
WHAT IS PRINTMAKING?
Come to our studio in Clane to find out.
Each Saturday morning for the month of November we are opening our
studio to give you the chance to meet the Printmakers, watch the various fine art printmaking demonstrations and take the opportunity to sign up for workshops to explore your own creative flair.
PRINTMAKING DEMONSTRATIONS:
Nov 5TH 11 - 1 PM DRYPOINT PRINT - BOOK HERE
Nov 12TH 11 - 1 PM SCREEN PRINT - BOOK HERE
Nov 19TH 11 - 1 PM LINOCUT PRINT - BOOK HERE Facilitator: Burcu Dundar Venner
Nov 26TH 11 - 1 PM CARBORUMDUM PRINT- BOOK HERE
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For those who attend a Demonstration the cost is taken off a Workshop. Workshops will be available at later date.