Over the bank holiday weekend, more than 150 artists will descend on Kinvara, the Burren and South Galway for four days of outdoor painting, and you are welcome to come along and watch.
One of Ireland’s biggest plein air events, the festival sees artists set up their easels in some of the most beautiful spots on the Wild Atlantic Way: Kinvara village, Coole Park, Ballyvaughan, Lough Cutra Castle and Eagle’s Rock in the Burren. Plein air means painting outdoors, from observation – in oils, watercolours, pastels and more.
There’s a full programme of workshops with professional tutors, daily paint outs and social events across the four days. But the highlight for the local community is always the Charity Paint Out on Monday, June 1, in Kinvara village.
Come down to Kinvara Green between 2:00pm and 3:00pm, where you can buy original art straight off the easels, a local landscape, seascape or streetscape, painted that very day. Visitors also vote for the Public’s Choice prize. Proceeds support our local mental health charity Kinvara Alive and Médecins Sans Frontières.
The Wet Paint Exhibition opens at the KAVA Courthouse at 3.30pm on Monday, June 1, and runs daily until Sunday, June 7. Free to visit, and all work is for sale.
Kinvara Plein Air is supported by Galway County Council, Fáilte Ireland and many local sponsors.
For more information, visit www.kinvarapleinair.ie
