Blue Skies: An exhibition of paintings by the senior students of Scoil Chormaic

Below opening times on the lead up to the festival:

• Friday 28th August: 11am – 3pm
• Saturday 29th August: 1pm – 4pm
• Sunday 30th August: 1pm – 4pm
• Friday 4th September: 1pm – 4pm
• Saturday 5th September: 1pm – 4pm
• Sunday 6th September: 1pm – 4pm

Festival Duration Dates & Times:

• Thursday 10th September: 3pm – 5pm
• Friday 11th September: 11pm-3pm, 5:30pm-7pm
• Saturday 12th September: 12pm-4pm and 6:30pm-8:00pm
• Sunday 13th September: 12:30pm-4pm

Blue skies is an exhibition of painting by the senior students of Scoil Chormaic here in Cashel. As part of their QQI Level 3 Art & Design Award, they explored landscape painting and the title of the exhibition was inspired by the song Mr Blue Skies by the Electric Orchestra.

Created on repurposed canvases that were primed with pink and coral colours, the artworks are a vibrant celebration of brushwork and blue tones.

When preparing their compositions they photographed the ever-changing weather and light in the sky from the Scoil Chormaic campus, but it is their individual responses to the landscape that make this exhibition so unique.

Using palette knives, brushes, sponges and cloths they described the skies above us all.

Sun is shinin’ in the sky
There ain’t a cloud in sight
It’s stopped rainin’, everybody’s in the play
And don’t you know
It’s a beautiful new day? Hey
Runnin’ down the avenue
See how the sun shines brightly in the city
On the streets where once was pity
Mr. Blue Sky is living here today, hey
Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long (so long)
Where did we go wrong?
Hey you with the pretty face
Welcome to the human race
A celebration, Mr. Blue Sky’s up there waitin’
And today is the day we’ve waited for