{"id":141022,"date":"2025-11-15T10:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141022\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T10:10:18","slug":"hospice-benefits-from-barrow-valley-art-groups-exhibition-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/141022\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospice benefits from Barrow Valley Art Group\u2019s exhibition &#8211; News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">BARROW Valley Art Group held its annual exhibition of paintings in Cobden Hall at Carlow College recently, in association with Co Carlow Hospice. Running from Saturday to Thursday, 25-30 October, the exhibition saw 19 artists presenting work across a variety of media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819696_9_articleinline_2_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Daniel Griffin and Annika Niva\" title=\"Daniel Griffin and Annika Niva\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Daniel Griffin and Annika Niva<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819697_11_articleinline_3_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Ruth Coffey in front of her work\" title=\"Artist Ruth Coffey in front of her work\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Artist Ruth Coffey in front of her work<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The exhibition was officially opened by Gl\u00f3r Cheatharlach\u2019s Br\u00edde de R\u00f3iste. Admission on the night was \u20ac5, with all proceeds going to Co Carlow Hospice.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819698_9_articleinline_4.jpg\" alt=\"Avril Jacob and Trione Healy\" title=\"Avril Jacob and Trione Healy\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Avril Jacob and Trione Healy<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819699_11_articleinline_5_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Mary O'Connor, Mary Hosey, Jane Walsh and Mary Butler at the exhibition\" title=\"Mary O'Connor, Mary Hosey, Jane Walsh and Mary Butler at the exhibition\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Mary O&#8217;Connor, Mary Hosey, Jane Walsh and Mary Butler at the exhibition<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The group also ran a raffle in aid of the hospice; the main prize on offer was an original painting by Scottish-born artist Jock Nichols, which was done while giving a plein air class to the Barrow Valley group in Shankill Castle, Carlow. Other prizes included a Kenwood Chefette donated by Sean Swan of Swan\u2019s Electrical Expert and a gift voucher donated by Liam Geoghegan of Arthur\u2019s SuperValu, Sandhills.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819700_9_articleinline_6.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Marie and Michael Kearns\" title=\"Anne Marie and Michael Kearns\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Anne Marie and Michael Kearns<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819701_11_articleinline_7_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Adrian Scully, Louise Gallagher, Lisa Scully and Deirdre Hyland\" title=\"Adrian Scully, Louise Gallagher, Lisa Scully and Deirdre Hyland\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Adrian Scully, Louise Gallagher, Lisa Scully and Deirdre Hyland<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Barrow Valley Art Group was one of the first art groups of its kind in the country when it was formed 52 years ago. The group meets once a month for seven months of the year and hosts workshops with prominent artists from different art schools.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819702_9_articleinline_8_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Syl and Catherine Kelly with Therese Fennin (centre)\" title=\"Syl and Catherine Kelly with Therese Fennin (centre)\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Syl and Catherine Kelly with Therese Fennin (centre)<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819703_11_articleinline_9.jpg\" alt=\"Anne Marie Kearns with one of her pieces at the exhibition\" title=\"Anne Marie Kearns with one of her pieces at the exhibition\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Anne Marie Kearns with one of her pieces at the exhibition<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Barrow Valley group would like to express gratitude to all those who donated to the hospice and who attended the exhibition throughout the week and also to the exhibition\u2019s sponsors: Rachel Doyle of the Arboretum; Sean Swan of Swan\u2019s Electrical Expert; Wesley Smyth, Ballinaboley Plant Hire Ltd; Suzanne Fennin, Clanard Court Hotel, Athy; Michael Condon, Jones Business Systems, Carlow; and Liam Geoghegan, Arthur\u2019s SuperValu, Sandhills, Carlow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819704_11_articleinline_10.jpg\" alt=\"Anne McMahon and June Farrell representing County Carlow Hospice\" title=\"Anne McMahon and June Farrell representing County Carlow Hospice\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Anne McMahon and June Farrell representing County Carlow Hospice<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3819706_11_articleinline_12_281_29.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Bencik with his daughter Skylar and Yvonne Nolan\" title=\"Michael Bencik with his daughter Skylar and Yvonne Nolan\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Michael Bencik with his daughter Skylar and Yvonne Nolan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BARROW Valley Art Group held its annual exhibition of paintings in Cobden Hall at Carlow College recently, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-141022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}