2011 - 2012
This year Blaise Smith has been commissioned to do a series of 16 paintings in Presentation College Carlow, a secondary school. The work will be exhibited in Autumn 2012
"I
am attracted to this commission because “school” is very much of our time. I think it will be very interesting to paint
this present day phenomenon for posterity, partially because the “ordinary”
aspects will be largely ignored in pictorial terms."
Work in progress below is the woodwork Technology Room. Click to enlarge
November 2010
Moving Pictures
New work
November 11th -27th 2010 at the Molesworth Gallery, 16 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
telephone +353 1 6791548
email molesworth.gallery(at)indigo.ie
www.molesworthgallery.com
March 2010
Workshop:
How to Draw Accurately
MARCH 2010
Blaise Smith will hold a three-day drawing workshop in Borris House from
29th - 31st March 2010.
"It is possible to learn to draw accurately. There is no magic to it. Certainly, like music some can initially have more flair for it but everybody can learn simple methods for making an accurate representation of what they see before them." Blaise Smith
(Watch a time lapse of Blaise drawing here.)
Working from the model Blaise will give participants some solid tools and techniques in the art of drawing. He will show them how to produce an accurate measured drawing from life using the tried and tested methods of the last five centuries. He will also explain some simple compositional devices and their practical use in making that days's drawing, such as the initial placement of the figure. This workshop will be focussed on giving participants a working method in drawing which will add to their repertoire of tools and techniques.
The model will sustain the same pose for each day.
Each participant will receive a proportional divider and plumb line. Each participant will be expected to provide their own drawing or painting materials and paper. Large cheap sugar paper will be provided for rough work.
Blaise Smith has been living in the Kilkenny area for the last decade. He is a well known Figurative painter and is renowned as a draughtsman of great facility. Much of his work is of the vernacular Iandscape although he is also a prize winning portrait painter, exhibiting in the BP portrait award in 2003 and 2004 at the National Portrait Gallery in London and winning the RHA Kennedy award for portraiture in 2002, as well as 4 other awards in the RHA. He has been shortlisted for the Davy Portrait Award 2010 and a prizewinner in the Arnotts portrait Award.
€150 per person
March 29th -31st
Borris House is one of Irelands most beautiful and historic great houses located in the most spectacular scenery Ireland has to offer. The backdrop of the river Barrow which flows adjacent to the beautiful woodland and gardens of Borris House make Borris House the jewel in the crown of Carlow’s tourism destinations
The workshop will be held in the West Wing, a stand-alone double height stone building with its own entrances, heating, electricity and toilet facilities.
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