Drawings of Great Irish Artists: A Lecture & Still-Life Drawing Session
Portrait of William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939) attributed to John (Jack) Butler Yeats
Call No. PD 3099 TX 26
In celebration of National Drawing Day at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again
Join us at Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again in celebration of National Drawing Day 2026 for a lecture on the drawings of great Irish Artists, including Jack B. Yeats, Mary Swanzy, Sean O'Sullivan, Flora Mitchell, Pauline Bewick, Muriel Brandt and more.
Following the lecture, you will have the chance to draw inspiration from these great artists in a still-life drawing class with Kenneth Donfield held in our stunning Rotunda.
This workshop is open to all skill levels, and all materials are provided.
Kenneth Donfield is an Irish portrait painter and educator who has taught at NCAD since 1985, specialising in classical and atelier techniques for portrait and life painting. A recipient of the RDS Taylor Scholarship and a postgraduate scholarship to the Art Students League of New York, he has painted official portraits of prominent figures including an ex-Taoiseach, Dr. Michael Smurfit, and Michael O’Leary. Kenneth has exhibited at the RHA, RUA (winning the RUA Portrait Prize in 1997), and is a member of the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club and the Ulster Watercolour Society.
If our team can be of any assistance, please contact us at heaneyexhibition@nli.ie.
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