Links

The following, is a list of websites personally recommended by Cork Art Supplies.

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• Craft Resources

Art Resources

• Free Online Art Portfolios from Crevado The easiest way to showcase your work online - unleash your Creative Bravado!
• Acrylic Young Art YOUNG ACRYLIC ART The Art Group for Young People In Your Area. Have you noticed how Artistic your child is / Would they like to develop this talent further ? Young Acrylic Art is the Art group for your budding artist. using acrylic paints, purely for pleasure, full of advice and encouragement. Annual Exhibitions, Gallery Tour, Field Trip, National Competitions, Sale of Work, Summer Painting Camps & Xmas Party. Oh! And FUN! 
• Aidan Flanagan ArtOriginal, hand-printed screenprints of the Irish Landscape in Limited Editions.
• Annemarie BourkeOriginally from Killaloe, Co.Clare Annemarie now lives and works from Limerick City. Her Studio / Gallery in O'Connell St, has become a haven for artists and art enthusiasts alike. A place to relax and enjoy the huge variety of artworks on offer,browsers are always welcome. Annemarie tutors many workshops here in her studio as well as a couple in Provence each year.  She is available for demonstrations and workshops for interested groups
• Arthaven Gallery A short 20 minute drive from Cork city, Arthaven Gallery in Crosshaven is an emerging Art Space for Visual Art and Multi disciplinary Arts. 
• Bold Art Gallery Bold Art Gallery is located in the heart of Galway City, off the West Coast of Ireland. A spectacular large & bright gallery, housing 100 prominent Irish artists
• Buckley & Associates Fine ArtBuckley & Associates specialise in the buying and selling of Irish Art for investment. They focus on the artists who make an influential contribution to the Irish Art World. Their carefully selected pieces can be viewed in their on-line gallery 
• Catherine Hammond Gallery Contemporary art in an exceptional setting in Glengarriff, Cork.
• Cork Vision CentreThe Cork Vision Centre offers visitors an opportunity to appreciate a fine example of conservation in action, and to explore Cork's evolution from past, through present, and onwards to future development.
• Crawford Art GalleryCrawford Municipal Art Gallery, the city art museum for Cork, is dedicated to informing a wide audience about the significant role that the visual arts play in contemporary life and culture.
• Futura DesignA Product Design and Innovation Company based in Dublin Ireland.
• Gallery Catoire Gallery Catoire is a Fine Art Gallery in Kinsale, County Cork, exhibiting a selection of oil paintings, many by Catoire, the acclaimed French born artist.
• Gallery 23Artists since 1982. This gallery is exclusive to Philip and Kate French's work only and was established in 1995. It is situated in their own period listed house in the small quaint town of Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland.
• Harry Feeney
• Heron GalleryHeron Gallery, Ahakista is on the beautiful Sheep's Head Peninsula near Bantry in West Cork, Ireland. The gallery is open throughout the year, seven days a week.  Heron Gallery's Creative weekends allow you to enjoy creative workshops led by Annabel.  With comfortable local accommodation and delicious meals, Heron Gallery weekends provide an unusual break for groups of up to 15 people.
• Irish-Art.com This is a great resource for information on art and artists in Ireland.
• Keith Anderson Portraits Beautifully hand sketched pencil and colour pencil portraits from your favourite photos. Keith Anderson is a 33 year old self taught Portrait artist who lives in Cork City and has been drawing and painting all his life. He recently decided to turn this skill into his full time occupation having been in construction in a previous life. 
• The Kenny Gallery An online gallery allowing you to view exhibitions, biographies and currently-held works by a wide range of artists. Based in Galway. 
• John Morris "Moments of Light" @ The Kenny Gallery John was born in Dublin in 1958. He has been painting since the late 1990’s. Recently, he moved to Abbeyfeale, County Limerick to paint full-time. He has been married for fourteen years and has three children. Mostly self taught, John took painting lessons from Brian Quinn after meeting him painting Plein air in 1997.
• Kilroy GalleryArtist Síofra Kilroy, born in County Cork, began actively pursuing art as a career in 1998.  Following the success of her many solo exhibitions in Cork and Galway, she opened the doors of her own gallery; the Kilroy Studio Gallery in Kinsale in July 2005. Following the success of the gallery, the Kilroy gallery is available on line
• Kinsale Art Gallery Located on Pier Head in Kinsale, they now offer paintings from an even wider selection of Irish artists. Kinsale Art Gallery invite you to browse through a selection of their paintings.
• Lavit Gallery The Lavit Gallery, Cork’s longest established gallery, is dedicated to promoting the work of artists who have achieved the highest artistic levels. Their 800 square feet of exhibition space spans two floors and incorporates a wide range of art styles, ranging from the traditional to the latest contemporary styles.
• Lewis Glucksman Gallery Located at University College Cork's main entrance on Western Road. The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is a cultural and educational institution that promotes the research, creation and exploration of the visual arts. Lisa Walsh LanganOil, watercolour and sketches from Lisa Walsh Langan.
• Maeve Doherty Maeve is a Wexford born artist, now living and working at her studio in Glenmore, Co.Kilkenny.  Her work can be found worldwide in public and private collections, and the subject matter ranges from amospheric landscapes to romantic figurative work in watercolour and oils.
• Olivier Longuet Oils, Acrylics and sketches by Olivier Longuet.
• Pat O' Dwyer Pat is an artist working in oils (particularly with the palette knife) creating colourful Irish seascapes, animal studies and other individual commissions. He also runs workshops to introduce other artists to his palette knife techniques.
• Paula Pohli A printmaker based in her hometown of Dublin. She combines the centuries old manual art of printmaking with a cautious application of modern motifs and colour
• Peter Monaghan Contemporary landscapes in watercolours and acrylics.
• Sharavogue Studios Original oil paintigs by Irish artist Brenda Murphy. Commissions undertaken by arrangement.
• The Art ExhibitionThis is an online gallery where you will find artists from all walks of life displaying their work. Some are well known in their own rights, some have not yet been discovered.
• Vincent Van GoghA fabulous online gallery. This site displays 100% of Vincent van Gogh's works and letters - a complete, online catalogue raisonné of Van Gogh's oeuvre.
• Visual Artists Ireland  Visual Artists Ireland is an all Ireland body for professional visual artists. It provides services, facilities and resources for artists, initiates artistic projects and publications and acts as an advocate on behalf of individual artists.

Art Classes

• Anne O'HalloranAnne has a BA (Hons) in Fine Arts and provides art classes for children between 8 and 12 years of age. Her classes are designed to improve children's observational skills through painting and drawing.
• Art At The Park - ClareBased in Killanena, Co. Clare. Art at the Park offers lots of childrens and adults classes from water colours to portrait drawing and week-long portfolio courses.
• The Barn Gallery - West CorkPainting weekend courses in West Cork. Escape from the city & indulge yourself by enrolling on one of the many Painting Weekends at The Barn Gallery 
• Hands on - West CorkHands-On workshops give you the chance to spend time with top professionals, learning arts or craft skills. They have a wide range of classes, courses and workshops, from single days to ongoing day/evening classes.  They take place in lovely studios in a variety of West Cork locations. Work shops are suitable for complete beginners or experienced practitioners and include: drawing, painting, bronze casting, raku ceramics, throwing, kiln building, stone carving, wood carving, stained glass, glass fusing, sculpture, photography, children's art, print making, silk painting, mosaics, papier mâché, and green wood chairmaking.
• Joe and Sue Keys - CorkJosef and Susan Keys are both established artists and teachers in the Cork area. They teach a wide range of classes and also run popular painting holidays abroad.
• Kati Bori Kati Bori of the Kati Bori Collection offers classes in pottery painting in Blackrock, Cork. The classes are open to everyone even if you don't have an artistic background.
• Labyrinth Creative Health Ann Burns currently facilitates Creative Empowerment Multi Sensory Workshops nationwide, with a wide variety of groups. She is on the Arts ‘n Health database and is associated with the Cork City Council, Crawford Art Gallery and the city & county VEC. She has worked with children, teenagers, travelling community,  garda diversion projects elderly and palliative care. She has been the arts trainer at Enable Ireland Cork since 1997. Ann offers a range of workshops to schools, and to the corporate sector, encouraging, team building, personal development, better communication and confidence skills.
• Monica Jones Art Monica, an established professional artist, will be holding Oil Painting Courses in her Studio commencing  26th September 2007. 

Craft Resources

• An Irish Craftworkers Good LifeThe daily creativity of love, life & work.
• Marcel's Kids Crafts Using art and craft ideas that he learned while in art college, 15 year old Marcel from Killarney made this web site to show other kids how to create similar projects! It's bursting with ideas for kids of all ages to try!