Oils - Irish Architectural Heritage - Rockstown Castle, Co Limerick

Rockstown Castle, County Limerick

Oil on Canvas

900 x 900mm

Exhibition : "The Inked Orchid & other Botanicals"

For more details visit

Jennie Castle Artist

Thomastown Creative Arts Festival

Incognito

'Tangled Orchids' | Original Monoprint drawing | Linocut

You are invited to an open weekend Sat 15 - Sun 16th December, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny

Thomastown Art, Crafts and Food this weekend

Visit me at Mc Kenna's Arch Studios, (opposite Sol Bistro) 

Low Street

Thomastown, Co Kilkenny

Ideal, unique gifts for Christmas,
 €45 and under
Imprints of fresh flowers into white earthenware clay

using black stains
and oxides and coloured stains

Nasturtiums

Blackberry - Ceramic Imprint

Available from

THE SEASONAL SHOP

Maidenhair Fern, Co Kilkenny, Ireland

Ceramosaic Artwork

White Earthenware rendered with copper oxides
To purchase visit my on-line shop
Artwork Shop

'Summer Dog Rose'

'Summer Dog Rose'

Ceramosaic Artwork Framed

(Photos by Marilyn Castle)

Shamrock impression

Trifolium repens (white clover, Irish: seamair bhán)

The name ‘shamrock’ is derived from Irish seamróg,

which is the diminutive version of the Irish word for clover (seamair).

Botanical imprint - rendered with copper oxide, glazed and fired.

Primrose

'Primrose'

 Ballyreddin, Co Kilkenny, Ireland

Botanical Imprint : Dated : March 2012

Copper oxide into white earthenware

Crocus

Crocus Ceramic Imprints -  rendered with oxides and stains

Fresh Crocus - picked in late Februray 2012

on white earthenware

Daffodil

 

Deatil

'Daffodil' - imprint into white earthenware, rendered with oxides and stains...

Spring!

Freshly picked daffodils in Mosaic Vase
 (re-cycled glass bottle)

'Orchid' sketch

Sketch of 'Orchid'

Glasnevin Botanical Gardens

Dublin

Done on 'Brushes' i-phone
Jan 4 2012

Timetable for the Studio 2011

YEAR OF CRAFT 2011

A broken Nicholas Mosse (Bennettsbridge, Co Kilkenny)

bowl re-cycled into a new plate

Mon 9th, Wed 11th and Frid 13th May 2011 - 10am - 1p.m each morning

Bring along a broken treasured piece of

crockery or broken plates/cups sourced from car boot sales or charity shops...

€75 including materials and tea/coffee

(Payable on booking confirmation)

jenettecastle@gmail.com

087 9836342

Follwed by

OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND : 'RE-CYCLED and NEW'

Cristina Garcia - Felt Art

Ciara O'Sullivan - Ceramic Art

Tunde Toth - Paper Art

Jen Castle - Mosaic Art

Sat 14th - Sun 15th May 2011 - 11am to 5pm each day

HERITAGE WEEK : CELTIC IMAGERY

CERAMIC-PAINTING & MOSAIC WORKSHOP

Monday 22nd August to Friday 26th August inclusive

10am-1pm daily

Enjoy the mornings learning new creative skills and the rest of the day exploring County Kilkenny, Ireland.

A week of ceramic painting of a bisque tile with Celtic patterns,

of hand glazing of ceramic pieces to be incorporated into a mosaic piece

to take a-little-piece-of-ireland home...

jenettecastle@gmail.com

+353879836342

Best Wishes for 2011 from Ireland

Kilkenny Castle Specimen Roses, IRELAND

DETAIL

A series of four oil paintings of specimen Roses picked from the gardens of Kilkenny Castle, IRELAND. The oil paintings were based on pencil drawings of each rose ; 'Precious Platinum', 'William Lobb', 'Pink Ballerina' and 'Evelyn Fison'. The roses are set against either a ground of deep indigo or against thick impasto turquoise oil paint.
Painted with Winsor and Newton Artists oil paint on deep edged canvas
(300 x 400mm)

Jennie Castle Artist

visit http://www.viewfineart.com/

'Rockstown Castle' County Limerick, Ireland

oil on canvas (900mm x 900mm)

Jennie Castle

Influences :
Andrew Verster, Pascale Chandler, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Lucien Freud, John Leech, Euan Uglow, C.F.A. Voysey, Mary Delany, Elizabeth Blackadder,Matisse, Gaugin, Schiele, Andrew Wyeth, Hundertwasser, Gaudi.