Celebrate Bealtaine and the arrival of summer with a workshop exploring seasonal themes of vitality, liminality, and relationality with nature through art.

This 4 hour workshop invites participants to explore the art of pen and ink illustration, with a thematic focus on the threshold time of early Summer. Through experimenting with core drawing techniques of form, tone, texture, and composition, participants will create engaging monochrome illustrations informed by layers of folk traditions, mythological tales, and the ecological markers associated with the turning of the seasons.

The workshop is suitable for all levels, and is designed to develop participant’s artistic skills while invoking curiosity, connection, and kinship with the wild world.

All materials will be provided.
*Participants who have attended previous Threshold workshops will be provided with additional exercises during the Technique portion of the workshop, to continue to build on skills learned in previous sessions.

Denise Conroy is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning freelance illustrator based in Tipperary, whose work draws on a rich cultural commons of folklore, mythology, storytelling, ecology, and landscape.
Working primarily by hand with traditional materials of pen, ink, and paper, Denise aims to create engaging visual narratives of the wild and mythic world. Denise is the co-editor and designer of Airmid’s Journal, a biannual journal of Irish foraging, folklore, myth, culture, and remedies.

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Tickets can be purchased online, in person or over the phone at Box Office. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Wheelchair users and any group over 8 persons should book tickets directly through Box Office. Further Terms and Conditions can be found at visualcarlow.ie/visit/booking-information.