The 138th annual exhibition of the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club runs at Dun Laoghaire County Hall for two weeks from today. This year the exhibition, which is sponsored by Whyte’s, will mark a centenary of Irish literature. Among the diverse range of nearly 300 works by 80 artists are paintings inspired by Irish poets and writers. Some non-member artists have been invited to participate this year. Here is a small selection:
‘Anna Livia Plurabelle You’re Changing from me Or is it me is’, by Kate Bedell
The Stone Field’, oil on canvas by Mary Duffy
‘Ulysses Molly Bloom, All the Lovely Places We Could Go’, ink and watercolour by Brid Clarke
‘Colm’, a portrait of writer Colm Toibín by Aidan Hickey, the new president of the Dublin Painting & Sketching Club