May - West Cork Arts Centre

WEST CORK ARTS NEWS
DOSWELL GALLERY
West Square, Rosscarbery
T: 023 8848137 / 087 7478713
W: www.doswellgallery.com
Doswell Gallery exhibits contemporary art from
leading and emerging Irish and international
artists.
Exhibitions
May/June
Group Show
July Wendy Dison and Jo Kelley - Prints
August Rebecca Bradley - recent paintings
Courses: 25 April, 9 & 23 May: How Paintings
Work €90 (3 days)
For those who enjoy art and art galleries but
lack confidence in them, a 3 day introduction to
the essential themes in understanding form and
content in the paintings of Western art.
Tutor: Matthew Wellard.
16 May or 11 July Dynamic Drama at Doswell
Gallery with Alison Glennie €65
Flex your imagination and body, using theatre
games. Devise improvisations, allowing the
artworks to inspire you.
12 or 13 Sept Collage with Susanne Lakin
Open: May & June: Fri – Mon 11.00am – 6.00pm
July & August: All week 11.00am – 6.00pm
GvM GALLERY
Coolkelure, Dunmanway
T: 023 8855135
E: info@vanmaanen.net
W: www.gertjvanmaanen.com
Ongoing exhibition of contemporary paintings by Gert J.
van Maanen in the new art gallery and studio.
GvM Gallery is situated in the beautiful scenery of
Coolkelure. Open almost every day.
SCULPTURE & PAINTING GALLERY AND
WORKSHOP
Now Open (by appointment)
Contact: Linda Sebeo Cohu
Derrynafinchin, Borlin, Bantry
T: 027 66042
E: lsc12@iol.ie
W: www.lindasebeocohu.com
COURTMACSHERRY CERAMICS
Established 1974
Main Street, Courtmacsherry.
T: 023 8846239
Handmade porcelain tableware for everyday use,
bright and cheerful for your kitchen and dining
table. Large highly decorated serving bowls, ideal
for gifts and wedding presents.
Also wall plates and art pieces featuring West
Cork marine wildlife.
Open until end of August
Monday to Saturday 10.00am to 6.00pm.
Then by appointment.
Anam Cara Writer’s & Artist’s Retreat
Eyeries, Beara, Co. Cork
E: anamcararetreat@gmail.com
W: www.anamcararetreat.com
Anam Cara Workshops
The Poem and the Dream
One-week residential retreat from
Saturday 27 June to Friday 3 July
Leaders: Paula Meehan, an award-winning Irish
poet and playwright and a member of Aosdána
(established to honour those artists whose work
has made an outstanding contribution to the arts in
Ireland), and Juliet Clancy, a dreamworker whose
mentor is internationally-known dreamworker
Jeremy Taylor.
Following on from the success of this workshop
at Anam Cara last summer, The Poem and the
Dream is a midsummer poetry workshop using
dreamwork as a tool for poets to make connections
to their poetry and as a guide to reading and
understanding the poems of self and others. The
focus will be poetry, making it and making it better.
This workshop is suitable for those starting out and
those already writing poetry.
Writing from Within: Haiku and the Spiritual
Dimension
One-week residential retreat from
Saturday 18 July to Friday 24 July
Leaders: Maeve O’Sullivan, a leading Irish haiku
poet, a founding member of Haiku Ireland, and an
experienced haiku workshop leader, and Kim Richardson,
a published haiku poet and experienced
leader of meditation retreats.
Following on from the success of their Writing from
Within workshops held at Anam Cara in July 2007
and 2008, this workshop is again designed to help
you develop paths to your inner inspiration -- the
path within. Toward this goal, the group will work
with the ancient medium of haiku poetry and its
related forms, with their links to Zen and its emphasis
on mindfulness. Combining the haiku work
with meditation, breath and light practices, the
outstanding natural beauty of the Beara Peninsula
and the peace and quiet of Anam Cara, the aim
is to heighten levels of awareness and to open
creative channels.