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South West Cork Artists + Crafters

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Ballingeary

• Keltic Leather Crafts Leather Crafts

Ballydehob

• Simon Hassett Wood worker
• Inspired-Glass Stained + Fused glass Jewellery + Gifts, Ballydehob
• Rob Lee Ceramics
• Marika O'Sullivan Jewellery, Enamelling: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Nature Art Nature Art + Craft
• Helen Stringer Felt Maker: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Tiernan Roe Fine Woodworking, Ballydehob

Baltimore

• Island Crafts
  Shirkin, Clear, Hair Island
• Paula Marten Arts Holidays, Machine + Hand Knit Workshops

Bandon

• Bandon Pottery Ceramics Pottery
• Mary Mackey
• Miriam Bailey Art Gallery

Bantry

• Katrina Avotina Artist
• Rory Conner Handcrafted Knives
• Rory Conner Handcrafted Knives: Knives.com
• Cronin's Forge Wrought Iron Products
• Heron Gallery Ahakista and Schull
• Thomas Kay
• Knifecraft
• Thomas Kay Sculpture, Painting: West Cork craft + Design Guild
• Caroline Levis Artist
• Ann Martin Fine Art Watercolours Cork
• Ben Russell Woodcarving + Photography, Hands on Craft Courses
• Ben Russell Woodturner: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Alison Trim Textiles

Beara Peninsula

• Julie Aldridge Review by Dr John Goode
• Cormac Boydell Ceramics
• Finola Cooney @ McBride Gallery
• John Eagle Art
• John Eagle Artist: Paintings and Photography
• Tim Goulging
• Marianne Klopp Pottery Ceramics
• The Great Barrington Pottery

CastleFreke

• Geraldine O'Sullivan Artist
• Michael Ray Vessels, Sculpture in Fused Glass

Castletownbere

• Errisbeg Studio Prints and Photographs
• Drirdre Keohane Artist, Castletownbere
• Mill Cove Gallery Gallery
• Sarah Walker Paintings

Castletownsend

• The Warren Gallery Castletownsend

Clonakility

• Mark Barry Artist, Clonakility
• Kathryn Best Artist
• Imagination Attic Handmade Wedding Stationery + Personalised Greeting Cards, Clinakilty
• Irrealist Gallery Gallery
• Etain Hickey Collections Gallery + Craft Shop
• Mojo Metal Designs
• Tayt GalleryArtists Co-op
• Catherine White Artist - Virtu - Art page

Cork

• Cork Artists Collective Artists Collective
• Patrick Barry Sculpture
• Johnny Buglar Artist
• Rachel Burke Painter
• Christine Byrne Sculptures
• Karina Collins Artist
• Rosemary Canavan The Works
• Cork Art Trail
• Crawford Municipal Art Gallery Gallery
• Ciaran Cronin Contempory Irish Artist
• Eden Jewellery
• Fenton Gallery Gallery
• Form Gallery Gallery
• Glucksman Gallery
• Tuula Harrington Golsmith + Designer
• Carol Hodder Artist
• Georgia Hopkins Artist
• John Jermyn Artist, Crosshaven
• Shane Johnson Artist
• Lee Gallery Gallery
• Lee Rivers Belts
• Susanne Leutengger Artist
• Lynes & Lynes Gallery
• Dara McGrath Photographic Artist
• Charley Mahon Island Pottery
• Medulla Furniture
• M Moriarty An Artist of water-based paints
• Martin Murphy Artist Cork
• Ray Murphy Art.com Artist Cork
• Ann Murray Fine Art
• John Phillip Murray Irish Contemporary Artist
• D-ri O'Connell Photography + digital Art, Cork
• Red Rag Irish Art Gallery Cork Art Galeries
• Frank Russell Irish Figural Images
• David Seeger Ceramics, Sculpture and Painting
• Silverstone Dimensions
• The Sirius Arts Centre Multidisciplinary arts
• Triskel Art Gallery

Courtmacsherry

• Mike Brown Photography

Cunnmore

• Cunnamore Galleries Galleries

Durrus

• Mairi Stone - Ceramics Clay + Ceramics

Drimoleague

• Methuselah Stained Glass Ann Dex + Geoffrey Phillips talk to Virtu - Art
• Methuselah Stained Glass
• Luca Paradisi Fine Art Photography from Ireland
• Chris Scotti's West Cork Art Foundry
• Sheila Hooks - Artists + Tutor Interview with Virtu - Art
• The Barn Gallery & Studio, Sheila Hooks

Dunmanway

• Hagen PelzelSalt + Light Art
• Stable Door Pottery Orla O'Rourke
• Van Maanen Studio Gert J v Maanen, Dunmanway
• Raindrops!!... A Touch of Irish Landscapes Gert J. van Maanen: Contempory Abstract Painter
• West Cork landscapes Gert J. van Maanen - Origional Artwork For Sale
• Drizzzzling Landscapes Gert J. van Maanen - Origional Artwork For Sale
• Icescapes Gert J. van Maanen - Origional Artwork For Sale
• Gert J van Maanen Irish Art Compendium
• Sally Smart Textiles: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Janey Winchester Textiles

Enniskeane

• Patricia McCoy Ceramics

Glengarriff

• Jem Creations Art Gallery + Leather Studio
• The Ewe Art Retreat Residential Art Courses
• The Hammond Gallery

How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist, 5th Ed.: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul
Caroll Michels is a life long art consultant who has written this book to share her experiences and expertise with the fine art community. Well written and with plenty of helpful references, Michels' book is an excellent addition to any artist's library

Goleen

• Baerbel Schulz-Voss Jewellery West Cork Craft + Design Guild

Inchigeelagh

• Hagen Pelzel Artist, Interview Virtu - Art
• Hagen Pelzel Art Work for Sale

Kenmare

• Kenmare Art Gallery Gallery + Art Advisory Agentcy

Kinsale

• Boland Kinsale Crafts Irish handcrafts
• Gallery 23 Kate + Phillip French
• Gallery Catoire Oil Paintings by Valerie Catoire
• Hillary Hale Woodturner
• Flicky Howe Artist, Designer and Jewellery Designer, Killbrittain
• Rob Howe Woodturner, Kilbrittian, kinsale
• Keane On Ceramics Craft Gallery
• Kent Gallery online Kinsale
• The Kinsale Art Gallery
• Kinsale - By Design Craft shop, Kinsale
• Kinsale Crafts Kinsale
• Kinsale Crystal
• Kinsale Silver Jewellery
• Kinsale Pottery and Art School Pottery + Art School
• Latitude Paper Working - Decoupage
• Marina Gallery
• Giles Norman Photographer B/W Landscape photography
• Louise McKeon Artist
• Michael Prior Photographic Artwork
• Diane Ryan Textile Design
• Juilian Smith Ceramics: West Cork Craft + Desgn Guild
• The Kent Gallery Gallery
• Wild Goose Studio

Art of Spiritual Harmony, The
Illustrated. Kandinsky, the great modernist painter, is considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. This volume, originally published under the title Concerning the Spiritual in Art, offers Kandinsky's provocative thoughts on color theory, nature of art as well as his analysis of Picasso, Matisse, and earlier masters. Contents: A. About General Aesthetic: Introduction; The Movement of the Triangle; Spiritual Revolution; The Pyramid. B. About Painting: The Psychological Working of Color; The Language of Form and Color; Theory; and Art and Artists

Leap

• Eleanor Calnan Lace Maker West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Sara Flynn Ceramics
• Sara Flynn Ceramics, CCoI
• Kathleen Standen Sculptural Ceramics

Macroom

• Mary Neeson Ceramics
• Luc Racine Furniture

Rosscarbery

• Sara Hodson Artist
• Hubberts Crafts West Cork Crafts
• Sally Miller Soap Maker
• Karin Smith Photography - West Cork Sunsets 1 - 11
• Thar Barn Studio George Maguire - Photography
• Art - Glass Virtu - Art creators Karin + Tony Smith, Rosscarbery
• Virtu Heads .. Who are these Guys?

Rossmore

• Etain Hickey Ceramic Artists Rossmore Pottery
• Etain Hickey Ceramics: Crafts Council of Ireland
• Jim Turner - Ceramacist Interview with VIrtu - Art
• Jim Turner Ceramic Artist Rossmore Pottery
• Jim Turner Ceramics: West Cork Craft + Design Guild

Sherkin Island

• Sherkin Island Arts & Crafts Island Crafts
• Island Crafts + Information Center Cape Clear, Sherkin, Heir + Long Islands

Skibbereen

• Art Prints Ireland Landscape Photographs of the Irish
• Paul Cialis Artist
• Enchanted Art + Craft Shop Run by Sharon Rose - Designer
• Deirdre Crowley Artist
• Fastnet Candles
• Alice Gillilan Artist
• Alice Gillilan Art Work for Sale
• Alice Gillilan Art Work for Sale
• Kieran Higgins Woodturning and Wood Sculpture
• Kieran Higgins Wood - West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Aoife O'Mahony Jewellery
• Alsion Ospina Green Wood Chairs - Virtu - Art Interview
• Greenwood Chairs, Alison Ospina Greenwood Furniture
• Alison Ospina Green Wood Chairs: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Paddy McCormack Iron, Copper + Bronze: West Cork Craft + Design Guild
• Radharc Gallery Skibbereen
• Maria Safaei Artist Interview
• Maria Safaei Art Work for Sale
• Sharon Rose Designs Craft Council Ireland
• ShazCards Sharon o'Driscoll - Hand Made Cards of Distinction
• Nick Taylor Artist, Rean Murrgha, Church Cross
• The Gate Gallery Gallery
• The Radharc Gallery Skibbereen
• West Cork Arts Centre Gallery
• West Cork Artists A Celebration 2007

Schull

• Enibas, SilversmithSabine Lenz

Timolegue

• Deirdre Crowley Artist, Timoleague

Union Hall

• Sally Kearney Artist
• Paddy McCormack Artist
• Matt Lamb The Art of Success
• Welcome to the World of Matt Lamb
• On-line Lamb Project
• The Paintings of Matt LambAbsolutearts.com