A painting by five-year-old Áine Broderick, from Moate, has been chosen to illustrate the 2014 calendar published to mark the 60th anniversary of the Texaco Children’s Art Competition which occurs next year.
Her work, which will brighten up thousands of homes across Ireland during the month of October, is one of 20 works selected to illustrate the publication. Entitled ‘Sugar and Spice and All Things Nice’, it is a lively and creative study that a competition adjudicator said “perfectly portrays the magnificence of a child’s imagination”. Áine was a top prize winner in the competition in 2011 and 2013.
Being distributed through Texaco service stations, the full colour, page-per-month calendar is the first of a series of undertakings planned by Texaco to mark an event that ranks as Ireland’s longest running sponsorship. Launched in the mid-50s, the Texaco children’s art competition has been held annually ever since during which time it is believed to have touched the lives of virtually every family in Ireland.
