Finalists for December 2009
The following entrants have been announced as finalists for the month of December.
Primary Students:
The sixth class students of St. Brigid's School in Dublin 5
and Luke Considine from Clohanmore West, Kilrush in Co. Clare.
Click to view St. Brigid's School entry »
Click to view Luke Considine's entry »
Secondary Students:
Aisling O'Sullivan from Cork City, Sam Keane, Aidan Carmody and Jingze Du from Colaiste Einde in Salthill, Co. Galway and German exchange students; Kacper Borkowski and Ludwig Maisel.
Click to view Aisling’s entry »
Click to view Jingze’s entry »
Click to view Kacper’s entry »
Click to view Ludwig’s entry »
Third Level and Adult Category:
Anne-Marie Burke from Tubbercurry in Co. Sligo, Ingrid Houwers from Bangor in Co. Down, Susan Connolly from Drogheda in Co. Louth and Christina Cleary From Co. Waterford.
Click to view Anne-Marie’s entry »
Click to view Ingrid’s entry »
Click to view Christina’s entry »
Here's what some participants had to say about their entries.
“I am delighted to have been successful a second time in the competition, I have embroidered since I was in National School and my two entries depicted scenes from The Book of Kells through this particular medium, the second image was much more difficult than the first as the detail was quite intricate. I am thrilled to have doubled my chances in the competiton, and who knows? I might try for a third time lucky!”
Christina Cleary
“I decided to give the competition a go after my Irish teacher mentioned it to our class, I just sketched what came into my head, and I suppose the overall drawing was influenced by graphic art which is one of my favourite areas in art”
Aidan Carmody
“I love The Book of Kells, and I am always especially impressed by the carpet pages, I wanted to pay tribute to Celtic Art, Boyne Valley Honey, and the lives of the 9th century monks by encompassing all these details on one page. I used watercolour paper that was treated to give the vellum effect, the whole painting took me over a month to complete, and I used watercolours, guache, and 22 carat gold leaf to heighten the overall visual effect. I was really happy with it when it was finished, I almost hated having to let it go and send it off!”
Ingrid Houwers
“I was particularly interested in the idea of symmetry and balance that underpins the style of The Book of Kells, I was interested in recreating this. I spent about two weeks on my painting, and as I am a German exchange student I worked on the details during my Irish class, I used pens and ink for my work of art, and I used Celtic books to research imagery.”
Ludwig Maisel
“My aunt first suggested to me that I should enter into the competition, we went on a trip together to Dublin to see the Book of Kells which I really loved, then I decided to draw the monks who created the book, and altogether my work of art took me about an hour to do, and I used pencils and colouring pencils.”
Aisling O' Sullivan
All these finalist will go forward to the final, to be held in April 2010, and are in with a chance to win a Fine Art Facsimile copy of the Book of Kells worth €20,000.
Boyne Valley Honey is encouraging families to get creative in the New Year. There are still two chances left with finalists being announced each month from now until March 2010.
Read related press releases:
December Primary School finalist Luke Considine » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Primary School finalist St. Bridget's » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Secondary School finalist Aisling O'Sullivan » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Secondary School finalist Colaiste Einde » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Secondary School finalist St Jarleths College » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Third Level finalist Anne Marie Burke » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Adult finalist Christina Cleary » (400k MS Word Doc)
December Adult finalist Ingrid Houwers » (400k MS Word Doc)
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