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Picture caption above: Clancy Brothers Music & Arts Festival En Plein Air Visual Art Competition winner Emma Power displaying her gorgeous painting of Carrick-on-Suir’s Marina, She won a €450 voucher for Carrick-on-Suir’s Tudor Artisan Hub. Picture Noreen Duggan
The Clancy Brothers Music & Arts Festival's inaugural En Plein Air visual art competition brought 20 artists from all over the South East to paint in Carrick-on-Suir last week.
The artists aided by glorious summer weather painted scenes in the town stretching from Ormond Castle to the Suir Blueway at Sean Healy Park and including Main Street, the Marina, Town Park, Castle Park and the laneways.
The competition ran from 10am to 4.30pm on Sunday, June 4.
“It was such a magnificent sight to see and the standard was amazing,” said competition organiser Linda Fahy of Carrick-on-Suir’s Tudor Artisan Hub.
She pointed out that artists travelled from as far as Wexford to take part in the contest.
The overall winner was Emma Power from Tramore, who painted a beautiful picture of boats and barges moored along Carrick-on-Suir’s Marina.
She won a €450 Tudor Artisan Hub voucher.
The children’s art competition was won by nine-year-old Charlotte O’Reilly, whose painting captured the beauty of the Suir Blueway.
She was one of four children who entered the En Plein Air contest and received a Carrick-on-Suir Town gift voucher as her prize.
Linda Fahy paid tribute to the competition’s judges visual artists Sheila Wood and Anne O’Keeffe and thanked all the artists who participated in En Plein Air and all who came to watch the artists at their work on the day.
Charlotte O'Reilly, who won the children’s category of the art competition, with her painting of a scene from the Suir Blueway in Carrick-on-Suir. Picture Noreen Duggan
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