Tour Overview
Join artists Kathleen Dunn Jacobs for an outdoor landscape painting and drawing workshop at the culturally rich Essence of Mulranny Arts, located at an Old Convent Campus, on the Western Coast of County Mayo Ireland. The landscape surrounding the Essence of Mulranny Arts, will be our muse that offers inspirational coast views and sunsets that have stirred artists for many generations.
About this workshop:
This weeklong creative painting and drawing retreat will help to immerse yourself in the delight of our natural world and rejuvenate your inner landscape by tapping into your creative process.
Kathleen will provide individualized instruction, demonstrations, discussions and presentations that will provide the format for an intensive exciting learning experience. There will be quiet, morning walks to scenic paths, balanced with quiet study to feed your vision and heart. Working small, participants will seek to create work with a spirit of place by emphasizing “slow looking” to understand the elements of the natural world, while responding to the grace, order and beauty that is in front of you and from within you. There will be ample opportunity to discuss each other’s work and to discuss international landscape painters throughout history. Nourishing food and stimulating conversation will be balanced with time to work alone to reflect on your purpose within your artistic life and process.
Mulranny is a small seaside village on Clew Bay in Co. Mayo. It is located at the dramatic western edge of Ireland, the end boundary of Europe. Here, land and sea meet at the threshold of a powerful creative adventure. Croagh Patrick, Ireland’s holy mountain, rises majestically from the sea on the opposite side of the bay. It is here that the ancients as well as the modern-day pilgrims have climbed the steep path to the summit. You can see the small chapel’s reflective glint on the top.
This is sheep country and below the village the sheep stand still as the tide comes in over their grazing patch on a salt marsh. They have learned to patiently stand and wait for the waters to recede so they can once again graze the salty grass. The rhythm of life here is dominated by these tides, flowing over the white sand beaches and then leaving in hasty withdrawal to the vast Atlantic Ocean.
Included in your retreat:
- Workshop instruction
- Some supplies (will be specified closer to trip)
- 7 nights lodging
- Transportation from Westport to the Studio (it is recommended to fly into Dublin airport and get a train to Westport where we will meet you to take you to Mulranny).
- All meals except – 1 lunches & 1 dinner
- All tour & excursion fees
- New friends and an art tribe!
More info email: KathleenJacobs@groundingstonefarm.com
