atelier penlan - workshops & events

Check out these dates at Atelier Penlan. Every second weekend of the month, there will an opportunity to meet at the studio and share practice, ideas and projects.  

Our first date is on Saturday 12th October. I look forward to meeting you !

TRAVERSÉES 

OPEN STUDIOS EXHIBITION - EUROPEAN CULTURE WEEKEND 20TH, 21ST & 22ND SEPTEMBER 2024

THE FRENCH CONNECTION

AN ART CONFERENCE - BRITTANY AND IRELAND

In partnership with Sample-Studios and Triskel Arts Centre, art historian Dr Matthew Whyte of Sample-Studios and Dr Michael Waldron, art historian and curator of the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork presented a lecture to discuss the impact of Brittany both in the history of art and in the Crawford Art Gallery's national collection. 

In this talk, Dr Whyte explored Brittany's appeal to artists during the birth of modernism in the late nineteenth century, explaining why artists such as Monet, Gauguin, Picasso and many others flocked to the region to develop styles such as Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. In the age of industrialisation, the natural and ephemeral qualities of the coastline of western France and its communes inspired artists who sought new ways of capturing atmospheric effects with their brushes. 

Dr Waldron then turned his attention to the Irish artists who travelled to Brittany in search of a new aesthetic. Examining Ireland's national collection through the magnificent works of the Crawford Art Gallery, Dr Waldron explored the ways in which Irish artists responded to the culture, landscape and emerging artistic styles of Brittany.

The conference ended with a visit to the Cork/Brittany exhibition ‘MARITIME’ in the TRISKEL SAMPLE project space, which represents the culmination of an artistic cross-residency exchange, supported by Brittany Ferries, between Cork-based Sample-Studios members Rebecca Bradley and Ida Mitrani and Brittany-based Caroline Boyfield and Laure Colomer. The exhibition is a renewed and captivating testimony to the historic artistic links between Ireland and Brittany.

MARITIME - MEET THE ARTISTS EVENT

MARITIME EXHIBITION

@ TRISKEL / SAMPLE PROJECT SPACE

WITH ARTISTS CAROLINE BOYFIELD, REBECCA BRADLEY, LAURE COLOMER & IDA MITRANI

MARITIME is an artist-led residency exchange programme between artists based in Finistère in Brittany, France and Cork, Ireland.  Cork-based artists Rebecca Bradley and Ida Mitrani were selected by open call to engage in two weeks residencies in Brittany in April and May 2024. Both artists explored the local landscape, visited cultural organisations and networked with various artists identified by the residency host, Embardée. 
The aim of the residency in Brittany was to develop a body of work exploring the human’s relationship with their ‘natural’ environment for dissemination to audiences in the region and in Ireland on their return.  
Brittany-based artists Caroline Boyfield and Laure Colomer travelled to Cork in May 2024 to undertake residency activity in Sirius Arts Centre and Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, responding to their contexts, landscapes, culture and history within their practices and presenting public events.  
The aim of the residency in Cork was to develop work in response to their experiences of the maritime journey and to the poetry and myths of the two regions to be presented in exhibitions in Ireland and Brittany.

In order to offer the residency programme a meaningful culminatory platform to celebrate and share the work and learnings arising from it, the TRISKEL / SAMPLE PROJECT SPACE hosted a summer group exhibition of work by Rebecca Bradley, Ida Mitrani, Caroline Boyfield and Laure Colomer. Opportunities are currently being explored to enable this exhibition to tour to a gallery in Brittany in 2025. The work presented for the exhibition in Triskel explores the artists’ multifarious responses to the coastal environments of Co. Cork and Finistère in Brittany. The four artists in turn express ideas about our encounters with landscape and place, highlighting the contrast between impermanent organic elements that will transform and decay, to more permanent materials that will remain, reflecting humanity's legacy in the oceans. The physical and poetic space inherent in the boat and in maritime journeys is also explored, as well as our relationship with myths, language and the sea.

“It was by the water that I best understood that reverie is a universe in emanation, a fragrant breath that comes out of things through a dreamer.” Water and Dreams’, Gaston Bachelard (1942) 

Rebecca Bradley : https://rebeccabradleyartist.com/Rebecca_Bradley/Home_Page_1.html                          Laure Colomer  :  https://laurecolomer.wixsite.com/site                                                                                                            Ida Mitrani  :   https://www.idamitrani.org/ 

MARITIME ARTISTS RESIDENCIES UPDATE

We were very impressed with the high standard of applications received after the Artist residency call went out in SAMPLE STUDIOS June newsletter.                                                                                                                               I am very happy to announce that the two artist members of SAMPLE STUDIOS in Cork, IE who have been chosen to be our first Artists in Residence in April / May 2024, are :
Rebecca Bradley                                                         https://rebeccabradleyartist.com/Rebecca_Bradley/Home_Page_1.html   https://www.instagram.com/memorygram/ 
and                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Ida Mitrani                                                                                                                                                     https://www.idamitrani.org/                                                                                      https://www.instagram.com/idamitrani/ 

Rebecca and Ida's will carry out two week residencies at Atelier Penlan in St Pol-de-Léon in April and May 2024 hosted by Caroline Boyfield, Artist and MARITIME Project Co-ordinator  . Email : carolineboyfield@gmail.com for more details.

MARITIME - TWO ARTISTS RESIDENCIES

ATELIER PENLAN - ST POL DE LÉON, BRITTANY, FRANCE 

15  DAYS - APRIL / MAY 2024 

Instigated by the French association : EMBARDÉE,  MARITIME is an international collaborative project in 2024-2025, between 4 visual artists on both sides of the Celtic Sea (Co. Cork in Ireland / department of Finistère in Brittany). Creative partners include Sample Studios, Sirius Arts and West Cork Arts Centre.
 
We are looking for two visual practitioners with a sustained practice and existing research interest in any aspect of the theme, with a track record in synthesising ideas into a coherent body of work that goes beyond literal representation.

POSSIBLE INTERPRETATIONS
EMBARKATION - BOAT - JOURNEY - DEPARTURE - LEAVING - FLOTSAM - TRANSITION - ARRIVAL - DOCKS - PORTS - SHELTER - MARINE ECO-SYSTEMS - SHIPS - TRADE - POLLUTION - MIGRATION - HORIZON - SHORELINE - CARGO - TIDES - FORESHORE - ISLAND - FLOATING - LIQUID - FLUID - LIMINAL

For more information, contact Caroline BOYFIELD : carolineboyfield@gmail.com by July 30th 2023.

the froe almanack - SWERVE GALLERY, SKIBBEREEN, IRELAND

exhibition of paintings & prints 

I will be exhibiting some works inspired by my residency at SWERVE Gallery & Project Space from 29th July until 5th August 2023. Private view is on Saturday 29th July from 18.30. The exhibition is part of the launch of SWERVE Magazine 2.

Tea & cakes will be served ! It would be lovely to see you.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - SWERVE MAGAZINE

I was invited by Mich MARONEY of SWERVE Magazine based in Skibbereen, Ireland to be the first Artist-in-Residence in June 2023. I worked in partnership with Jonathan DOIG of Narmada Organics on his organic smallholding at Froe, West Cork. Some of the work produced will be published in SWERVE 2 in July 2023.

In the studio at SWERVE Project Space, 8 Cork Rd, Skibbereen, Ireland

At Jonathan DOIG's organic smallholding in Froe, where I gathered inspiration for the project

UNE JOURNÉE AU JARDIN - MONDAY 10TH APRIL - CARANTEC

Happy to be invited by Edith Vigné of Eden Paysages to exhibit a small selection of works based on the garden in her beautiful pocket garden in Carantec,

See https://www.facebook.com/edencarantec/?locale=fr_FR

exhibition PRIVATE VIEW - SATURDAY 4TH FEBRUARY 2023

'QUATRE FEMMES - DE L'INVISIBILITÉ À L'AFFIRMATION'

EXHIBITION GALERIE DIFFÉRENCE - 01/12/2022 to 01/01/2023

I am very happy to be exhibiting at the gallery Différence in Carantec alongside other artists and designers, including Catherine Marghieri, Ximena de Leon Lucero, Anne Hellegouarch and Atelier Les Engobés. The winter exhibition begins Thursday 1st December and ends on the 1st of January 2023. The private view is on Saturday 17th December at 18.30.  We look forward to seeing you there !

54th salon de peinture du léon - 5th nov.-12th december 

I am taking part in this group exhibition with a large painting titled "Low Tide",  which is part of my Elements series (see Gallery page for more details). Thank you to the Ville de Landivisiau for the opportunity of showing my work for the third time.

Low Tide, 2022, 100 x 80 cms, oil on canvas

OPEN STUDIOS - AUGUST 2022

The studio at Penlan Vraz will be open throughout August with a range of works on display and for sale. It will be lovely to see you to exchange around art. I'm excited to show you what I have been up to this year.

 

SILLONS - GALERIE COULEURS DE ARTS - MORLAIX- JULY 2022

An exhibition with Véronique DUPRAT

I am pleased to be exhibiting with fellow artist Véronique Duprat from 1st until 14th July.  I will be showing approximately  fifty  works completed in the last two years ranging in size and for all budgets.

 

3 DAY SKETCHBOOK WORKSHOP AROUND THREE GARDENS - 4/5/6TH JUNE 2022

I will be offering a short workshop over the bank holiday weekend of 4th-6th June 2022 to take place in three separate gardens: the Jardins Exotiques in Roscoff, the Parc Goude in Carantec and the jardins de Pont Born, also in Carantec. I will demonstrate some different approaches to the use of colour and mark making with water based techniques using inks, water soluble pencils and pastels. Maximum 6 people / materials provided. Contact me to reserve your place on 00 33 (0)6 37 60 50 45 or by mail at carolineboyfield@gmail.com

 

 

JOURNÉE AU JARDIN - CARANTEC - APRIL 2022

It was a joy to exhibit some small works and to sketch  in Edith Vigné's jewel of a garden in Carantec for the 4th edition of 'Une Journée au Jardin'. Lots of participating artists and artisans and over 1000 visitors in glorious spring weather.

MARCHÉ DE NOËL 2021 - BAZAR SARAGOZ

 

 

SALON DE CARANTEC - DECEMBER 2021/JANUARY 2022

Happy to be exhibiting 6 small paintings ate the Salon des Arts de Carantec until 9 January 2022. 

 

SALON DE PEINTURE DU LÉON - NOVEMBER /DECEMBER 2021

Happy to be exhibiting 'Floribunda Dyptich', 2021 at the Salon de Peinture du Léon until 12th december.

 

 

FLORIBUNDA - SOLO EXHIBITION @BAZAR SARAGOZ- OCT.2021

 

 

LA TANNERIE - OCTOBER 2020

exposition au restaurant c'est ici - roscoff

New work on show at the restaurant C'est Ici in Roscoff from Friday 18th September 2020. Based on cairns and pebbles and on the old adage that 'less is more'.

GALLERY STAMFORD -STAMFORD - UK

I will be exhibiting a selection of recent works from Brittany at Gallery Stamford from 13th January until 8th February 2020 with Lucy Cade-Stewart. 

Private viewing on Saturday 18th January at 18.00  

52e SALON DE PEINTURE DU LÉON - LANDIVISIAU

Happy to have had two paintings selected for the 52e Salon de Peinture du Léon in Landivisiau. The exhibition runs from 9th November to 15th December in the Hotel de Ville in Landivisiau with approximately 200 works by a wide range of artists on show.