Rossnaree Art School - Florence Art School,Rosnaree, Slane, Co. Meath, Ireland
Faculty / Staff
Molly Judd
Molly Judd, a young aspiring artist, began her studies in Florence, she has spent two years at the Florence Academy of Art, run by Daniel Graves, learning the techniques of the Old Masters, and following the ideal that demands a return to discipline in art and to canons of beauty. After graduating from the Drawing Program, she decided to further her Academic studies becoming apprentice to a world renowned Norwegian painter called Odd Nerdrum. After spending the last 6 months painting with Nerdrum, she has returned to Ireland to share her enthusiasm in the importance of Academic technique and share her skills. Molly will be running a 5 day course concentrating on Academic technique, the figure and portraiture. She hopes to encourage the importance of technique for either pre-leaving cert students or students wishing to give an Academic strength to their portfolios.
Daniel Scott
English artist Daniel Scott has lived and worked in Barcelona for 6 years running a number of different studios and a gallery, whilst also teaching History of Art and Aesthetics at The Institute of European Design (I.E.D). His current studio is located on the boat "The Halve Maan" or The Half Moon. Originally a Dutch barge built in 1914, she has been lovingly restored and converted into a floating home and studio over the years to provide the most exciting studio in Barcelona. Life drawing takes place in a custom build studio in the belly of the boat whilst painting courses either work from deck or around the port, safe in the secure port of Port Vell in the very heart of the city from September to May or The Balerics in the summer.
Daniel exhibits regularly in Spain and has also had shows in London, Sydney and Saigon.www.danielscottart.com
James Hanley
James Hanley is a Dublin-based painter. An established portrait artist, painting many official and state portraits, he is represented in significant public, corporate and private collections in Ireland and abroad.
Born in 1965, he graduated from University College Dublin in 1987 with a degree in History of Art and English, and from the National College of Art ↦ Design in 1991 with a BA in Fine Art Painting.
He works in a representational style, in both painting and drawing. He has exhibited extensively in group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad, and has had 7 solo exhibitions. His many official and state portraits include the State Portrait of the former taoiseach Bertie Ahern and the Inauguration Portrait of President Mary McAleese. James is full Member of the Royal Hibernian Academy and was elected to Aosdána in 2008 and most recently to the Board of Governors of the National Gallery of Ireland.
Daniel Scott
English artist Daniel Scott has lived and worked in Barcelona for 6 years running a number of different studios and a gallery, whilst also teaching History of Art and Aesthetics at The Institute of European Design (I.E.D). His current studio is located on the boat "The Halve Maan" or The Half Moon. Originally a Dutch barge built in 1914, she has been lovingly restored and converted into a floating home and studio over the years to provide the most exciting studio in Barcelona. Life drawing takes place in a custom build studio in the belly of the boat whilst painting courses either work from deck or around the port, safe in the secure port of Port Vell in the very heart of the city from September to May or The Balerics in the summer.
Daniel exhibits regularly in Spain and has also had shows in London, Sydney and Saigon.www.danielscottart.com
Samuel Horler
Twenty-five year old Dublin-based artist Sam Horler is a rising talent in Irish art. Graduating from the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design with an Honours degree in Fine Art in 2007, Sam has been developing an extensive body of work in various mediums.
In an in depth article about him in the Irish Times, leading art critic Gemma Tipton wrote;
What’s interesting about painter Sam Horler is not so much that he comes from a long line of artists that goes back to Maud Gonne – it’s the quality of the work…Most people have their own opinions about the relative merits of the work of artists such as Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst, but every now and then an artist comes to your attention, and you think: this person’s really got something. That’s what I thought when I met Sam Horler.
Regularly collaborating with artists across various disciplines, he was commissioned by Irish film-maker Louis Lentin to create drawings for his film, Grandpa Speak to Me in Russian and works regularly with film artist Paddy Jolley. He was part of a team of two responsible for the execution of a major commission for a monument at the Irish Cultural Institute in Paris by the pre-eminent sculptor Imogen Stuart. He has taken part in several group shows throughout Dublin, most recently he was invited to show at the 180th RHA annual show.
He is currently working in his Clarendon Street studio for his second solo show for late 2010.
To read an interview with Horler in The Irish Times by leading art critic Gemma Tipton click here
Joe Dunne
Joe Dunne was born in Dublin in 1957 and studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1975 to 1978. His first solo exhibitions took place in Dublin and Freiburg Germany in 1980. Subsequent solo exhibitions took place in Dublin in the 1980‘s and 1990 and his work has also been selected for numerous group shows including the Oireachtas, the RHA Annual and Gala Exhibitions and the BP Portrait awards in London. A decision to focus only on painting in 1997 led to a landmark exhibition at the RHA Ashford Gallery in 2001. Many of the works in that exhibition marked a stylistic development which has continued into the subsequent and present solo shows at Jorgensen Fine Art in 2004 and 2007.
Joe is probably best known for his portrait work. A number of portrait and figure paintings exhibited at the Tom Caldwell Gallery in Dublin in 1990 drew comparisons with the work of the realist painters Andrew Wyeth and Lucien Freud. He has received a number awards over the past two decades - most recently the Keating McLoughlin Medal for a group portrait at the RHA Annual in 2006 and the Fergus O‘Ryan RHA Memorial Award for a landscape in the 2010 RHA Annual. He was also recently elected an Associate member of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
Gearoid Hayes
Upon recieving a Law Degree at University College Dublin, Hayes set upon an education in art. After attending the Academia Italiana art school in Florence he spent four years studying drawing and painting at the Charles Cecil Studios in the same city completing his studies in 2008 and becoming a tutor at the school.
Upon completing a residency at the Cill Riallaig Project in Co. Kerry he moved to his present studio just off Stephens Green in Dublin's city centre. He is concentrating on portrait paintings and commissions where he has been recieving much attention and recently the subject of an in-depth feature article in the Irish Times Magazine.
In October he will begin teaching again at the Charles Cecil academy in Florence.
