Art & Craft Trail

Astrid Adler

"I am an Artist in everything I do"

Astrid Adler is an integrated Artist, working mainly in the field of visual art, theatre and music. She is known for her metarealistic / surrealistic paintings, but uses all materials, celebrating and developing different styles and techniques.

She facilitates workshops in several crafts, from felting to willow work.

As artist in residence she devises a diversity of projects.

Commissions are welcome or contact her for teaching and workshop arrangements.

Monmore, Kilrush, Co. Clare
+353 (0)65 9051309
+353 (0)86 2387088
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Cata Isle Mime Theatre

Cata Isle Mime Theatre was founded in late 2008 by Astrid Adler.

Cata Isle Mime Theatre combines mime with elements of puppeteering, using a minimum of simple props. Poured into sound and light and make believe it shows you that everything is possible on stage.

Cata Isle Mime Theatre facilitates courses and workshops tailored to the needs of:

• primary & secondary schools
• youth theatre
• adults
• health & disability sector
• summer camps
• theatre groups

Cata Isle Mime Theatre pushes the boundaries of Irish theatre.

Monmore, Kilrush, Co. Clare
+353 (0)65 9051309
+353 (0)86 2387088
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Dave Dakin Photographer

At Art College, in Blackpool, I studied graphic design, media and photography, which, together with a few other jobs, I have worked in throughout my life. Since coming to Ireland I have been teaching photography and running my own photographic business, ‘imagephotography’. I’ve had exhibitions of my black and white creative images in Florence, Italy, New York, Chichibu, Japan and of course Ireland. I am pleased to share my enthusiasm for photography by helping students capture their own creative images.

Photographic workshop with Dave Dakin

where: Loop Head Peninsula
when: By arrangement. 1 or 2 day courses
why: to improve your photographic skills

Lots of people can take a good photograph but few people know what to do with the images. Since the advance in digital cameras, very few people take poor quality images. My philosophy is with good planning and an understanding of your subject, light and the environment; most people can take superb photographs.

What better place to learn than Loop Head Peninsula, with it’s stunning wild seascapes, and ever changing light. Share this unique classroom with Dave Dakin, who’s been a photographic teacher for over 12 years and lives in Loop Head, Dave has been sharing his energy for this wild and wonderful environment through photography and workshops.

Why not give yourself time and energy (fun) to learn a new skill.

Fodra, Kilbaha, Kilrush, Co Clare
+353 (0)87 7785136
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Carsten Krieger Photography

Fine Art Landscape and Nature Photography

"There's a haunting quality to his work that makes even familiar images feel eerily new" Irish Independent

Carsten Krieger is a professional landscape and nature photographer based in the West of Ireland. His unique images are highly acclaimed and over the past decade he has become one of Ireland’s leading photographers.

Conservation naturally plays an important role in his work. He has been working as staff photographer for the IPPC (Irish Peatland Conservation Council), was the picture editor & photographer for the environmental magazine Rocky Road and is currently working for the IWT (Irish Wildlife Trust) and is part of the international Meet Your Neighbours biodiversity project.

Carsten has to date published four books, including the best selling “The West of Ireland” and “The Wildflowers of Ireland”, and is currently working on several new projects. Carsten has had several successful solo and group exhibitions and his work also appears regularly in print and online magazines.

Beside his landscape and nature work Carsten also undertakes a limited number of commercial assignments each year, mainly for the tourism industry, and he is also an accomplished wedding photographer.

 

Carsten Krieger Photography
Fine Art Landscape Imagery & Landscape Photography Workshops
Kilbaha North, Loop Head, Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland
+353 (0)87 6949385
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Krystyna Pomeroy Sculptor

For the past twelve years Krystyna has been using paper as a sculptural medium and has participated in a number of exhibitions in Ireland and the UK.

Recent work has included pieces in bronze, cast at Seamus Connolly’s foundry in Kilbaha and sold through Adam’s in Dublin.

+353 (0)65 9058364
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Loophead Studio

Loophead Studio was set up in 1999 by Naomi Wilson and Brian Doyle, both graduates from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. Having spent 10 years in New York, they returned to Ireland and set up an art studio in the remote village of Carrigaholt in West Clare. The diversity of their work includes painting, photography, sculpture, film and theatrical props. They have produced several animated films inspired by Loop Head and screened at festivals internationally.

Loophead Studio, Carrigaholt, Co. Clare
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Maureen Glynn

Maureen is a pen and watercolour artist living in Kilkee with photographer husband William. In the UK, she qualified as a teacher specialising in Art and French and has taught art at all levels in mainstream and special schools for many years. She now tutors children and adults from home and runs a local adult art group. Exhibitions of her own work and that of her pupils have been held, in Kilrush, Ennis and Kilkee.

Kilkee, Co. Clare
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Michael Reeves, Painter

I have lived in the Loop Head area since 1999.

From Limerick, my love affair with West Clare goes back to childhood. The landscape is inspirational. Its dramatic elements present a painter with endless exciting subject matter. The area is in constant flux and it lends itself to abstract interpretation. The unrelenting poundings of the Atlantic are etched in fine line. The moods are various and the colours are rich and subtle.

I have two solo exhibitions and my work has appeared in several group shows. My work is widely collected.

Kilkee, Co. Clare
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Seamus Connolly

Seamus Connolly is one of Irelands’ leading bronze sculptors, living and working in Kilbaha in West Clare. He is most well known for his highly acclaimed real-life commissions such as that of Richard Harris as a young man in Kilkee – which was opened by Hollywood star Russell Crowe - and that of John B Keane in Listowel, Co. Kerry.

Seamus also has a fantastic reputation for his abstract pieces, most of which are inspired by animals and nature. Seamus, uniquely, brings all his pieces from inception right through to being finally cast in bronze, entirely in his own bronze foundry in Kilbaha – a process that has even been documented in the past by RTE. His exhibition proves as an exciting opportunity to see some of Connolly’s more personal pieces.

Kilbaha, Co. Clare
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William Glynn, Photographer

A retired teacher brought up in Kilkee I finally have time to realise a long held dream - photography. I try to capture some of the beauty of our West Clare peninsula, particularly the wildlife.

Exhibitions: Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon 29 April - 26 May 2011

Kilkee, Co. Clare
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Art & Craft Showcase

Circular Road, Kilkee, Co. Clare
+353 (0)65 9056141