To find one of artists’ greatest inspirations, you just have to go outside. Artists have been using their work to capture the landscape for a very long time. Art expert Helena Hunt tell us more...

Wicklow-based artist Mary Duffy wowed Art Club with her paintings. Mary tells us how she got started and how she stays inspired.

Sara tells us how she used recycled materials to create her scary sculptures...

Macnas make incredible artworks, often inspired by the land around them. They spoke to Art Club! about how they create their legendary art and why they’re so acclaimed across the world.

The Sun might be a big gas ball millions of miles away, but it makes life on earth possible. Art expert Helena Hunt tells us more…

Clare Breen is an artist and curator based at Visual Carlow. Below she talks about her artistic inspirations and her love of cyanotype.

Oisín Kenny from the National Gallery of Ireland tells us more about the power of the gaze and gender inequality throughout art history.

Ross Carvill has an awesome activity that you can try out called "Shadow Art". This project was inspired by a famous artist named Henri Matisse who made beautiful artwork by cutting out shapes from paper.

This is Art! 2023 Online Gallery is NOW OPEN! Check out all the amazing entries received so far.

Art is full of bodies, from the real to the divine. Art expert Helena Hunt tells us more…

Fergal Brennan is an animator and educator based in Leitrim, with over 20 years’ experience of creating amazing animations. He tells us more about the inspirations behind his recent works.

Susie talks about her experience of going to life drawing class for the first time...

Watch the completed film by Amanda Coogan and her young dancers!

Learn how to create your own French knitting loom with this easy-to-follow guide.

Looking for a fun and creative activity to do with friends? Look no further than our Exquisite Corpse guide by our resident artist Ross Carvill.

Dublin born, music and portrait photographer, Ruth Medjber was encouraged by her father from an early age to take photographs.

Colin Martin is an artist and teacher in Dublin who loves painting and film. He has done lots of cool projects in the art world, like working with other artists to make prints and curating art exhibitions.

Amanda is an internationally recognised and critically acclaimed artist working across the medias of live art, performance, photography and video. She is one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary visual artist’s practicing in the arena of performance. Her extraordinary work is challenging, provocative and always visually stimulating.

Tadhg Crowley, Senior Curator at the Glucksman Museum in Cork, talks about his job of planning and putting on art projects for people of all ages and skill levels. He also talks about how important art is for communication and understanding, and gives young artists tips on how to enjoy being creative.

Aoife Dooley is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer, author and comedian from Coolock, Dublin.

Annie Fletcher is the Director of IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art. A noted international curator, Annie has extensive leadership experience in the contemporary arts.

Faces have fascinated people for thousands of years, from ancient portraits to modern-day selfies. They communicate our feelings, and artists use them to capture character. Art expert Helena Hunt tells us more...

Create your own animal hybrid mask by combining different species together.

Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing our reality in European painting and sculpture. Oisín Kenny from the National Gallery of Ireland tells us more…

This guide by Ross Carvill is a fun and easy way to create a unique portrait of yourself, just by selecting images of things you love.

Mark Duffy is an Irish artist who lives in the UK. His photography, which often shows British politics with a sense of humour, is a way for him to explore modern issues and the power of the media.

This short how-to-guide will show how to be inspired by Cubism to create your own 3D Cubist cardboard head!

An artist's statement is simply a short introduction to your work. It can be whatever you think is significant or whatever might help a viewer to better understand your work.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

Ola is an artist from Galway who is studying animation in IADT and loves the possibilities digital art offers. She is drawn to art with solid storytelling, strong colour choices, and exaggeration of reality.

Heads or Tails? We say Clay Heads! Download our demo doc and follow the steps to make your very own Clay Head.

Here are some Top Tips for photographing your artwork from art student Laura.

This is Plastic! It can be formed into almost any shape and used to make nearly anything…yes, even art!

Our Pinch Pot demo shows us the most useful techniques for hand building with clay, which is one of the oldest and simplest forms of pottery. Time to get your hands dirty!

Art can be made out of anything and anywhere, including using a wheelchair to create tracks in puddles or paint, with the resulting abstract and unique artwork reflecting the creator's personality and style.

Fatti Burke is an Irish author and illustrator who is known for her educational books for kids. She likes to make art about food, home, and animals.

Ross Carvill, a freelance illustrator from Dublin, Ireland, thinks that art's job is to create worlds beyond our own and show them to the viewer. He gets ideas from everything, like animals from faraway places and conversations with strangers on the street.

Kate MacDonagh explores dualities of light and dark, scale and ephemerality, stillness and movement, and spectral and material.

This is Clay! One of the most fun and versatile materials out there and is used in everything from false teeth to toilets and of course art!

In this demo we learn about paper lanterns. Traditionally, they were released into the sky on New Year’s Eve. Why not make them for your next party?!

Ifeoma U. Anyaeji, a neo-traditional Nigerian artist, uses non-traditional methods to find new uses for things that have been thrown away and to document sociocultural experiences. Her work makes statements on the value-utility orientation of modernity and its effect on the environment.

Jo May is the Creative Exploration Officer at ReCreate, a social enterprise and registered charity that makes art materials and educational supplies accessible and affordable to all sectors of the community. Her job is to support people with their creative confidence and make them feel something.

Arran Murphy is a Fashion and Costume Designer/Maker and Educator who uses her skills and expertise to showcase and promote Circular Fashion as a sustainable alternative to Fast Fashion.

Harry Clarke was a stained glass artist who won scholarships to travel to France and England and won gold medals for his designs. Harry Clarke designed The Eve of St Agnes, which won the gold medal at the Irish Art Exhibition in 1924 and was bought by the Hugh Lane Gallery in 1978.

Offaly-based multidisciplinary artist Francesca Hutchinson examines fleeting materials and life's transience. She believes everyone should respect art because there is no right or wrong way to make it.

Laura's character design is a way for her to express herself and her view of the world. Her advice to young artists is to keep drawing and look at other people's work.

Go back in time and take a look at how the people of the Bronze Age and Iron Age designed their metal work objects with motifs.

Sarah Flynn is a Fashion and Textile Designer based in Dublin, Ireland who specialises in Woven & Constructed Print Textiles. Her work explores traditional hand-woven techniques while raising awareness of the importance of traditional textiles, creating beautiful pieces that do not destroy the planet and promoting slow fashion awareness.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

This is Digital! Chances are you’re reading this on a digital screen made up of hundreds and hundreds of pixels. They are so small but yet they are mighty!

Will Sliney is a comic book artist who has worked for Marvel and Star Wars. He thinks that the job of his art is to tell a story, to bring a script to life in the best way possible so that the reader feels the emotions he wants them to feel while experiencing the story.

This is Metal! Strong, sturdy and durable, metal comes from minerals that are found in rocks!

Hannah's love for space and passion for art has inspired her to paint a beautiful picture of the Earth using her mouth as she finds painting with it relaxing and a way of expressing herself, motivating others to embrace their differences and have fun painting.

Aideen Barry is a visual artist who is known both nationally and internationally. She uses performance, sculpture, film, and lens-based media to express herself, and she uses visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

Sean Corcoran is an environmental artist who works in the environment with raw materials and is best known for his sand art. He is self-taught and is constantly researching and learning new things.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Plastic fanatics be sure to follow this motto in our latest demo doc to make your own Corpse Bride from a milk carton.

James Earley is an Irish artist who makes pieces that look at power, social inequality, religion, politics, and, in the end, how cruel people can be. He is a multidisciplinary artist who focuses on concept-driven work with a focus on colour, composition, materiality, and scale.

Print Van Go uses printmaking to facilitate learning and social engagement while promoting contemporary fine-art printing.

Lockie is a sign writer, graphic designer, lettering artist, and type expert who lives in Dublin. Sign writing and painting is an art that has been around for hundreds of years. It requires skills with lettering and layout.

The Open Road Project, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Cork City Council, was created to give children from a variety of backgrounds a greater platform from which to share their perspectives.

Ron Barrett is the head potter at Shanagarry Potters. He gets a lot of ideas from the natural world around him and makes simple, useful, and real handmade pieces that make life better.

This is Paper! From piñatas to puppets, paper is used to create all kinds of wonderful things with its endless weights and textures.

Follow Izzy, 16, on her behind the scenes tour of Spraoi Studios in Waterford.

Holly Pereira is an illustrator and muralist who lives in Dublin. She wants to find out how colour and design affect public spaces, so she makes bright, happy places where people can play.

Ross Carvill's Pottery Friends Activity is a fun and creative way to transform found pieces of pottery into unique works of art.

Shane Keeling is an artist from London who is part of the group Boys Don't Cry. He uses humour and takes risks to make process-driven art and encourage conversations about men's mental health in the creative industry.

The Fonthill Vase is an ancient porcelain jug that was made over 700 years ago in China. It is decorated with experimental relief decoration and was considered a precious item due to the secret of how to make porcelain only being known in China at the time.

Creating a pop art self-portrait is a fun process that involves tracing the image and adding a gradient effect. The end result shows how the artist wants to be seen.

Discover the unique and painterly quality of Japanese woodblock prints using washi paper, watercolor pigment, and a lot of patience, as taught by Irish artist Kate McDonough at the Chester Beatty Museum.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

Gavin, a fifth-year art student, is creating a bas-relief panel using paper clay, a technique where the image stands out from the back slab of clay, and enjoys working with the versatile medium.

Katelyn likes to paint because it makes her feel calm and happy. She likes to use different colours and styles to make her own unique art.

If you've ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of a theatre production, then you're in for a treat!

Students in Tullamore Art Class learn about the different ways art can be made and how it relates to life.

Push your clay skills to the limit and make a Slab Pots! This is trickier than hand building, but it’s really fun and the results are worth it.

Art is all about looking at a painting and having your own thoughts about it. The Visual Thinking Strategy is used in class to get students to talk about what they think about the art.

Glass is one of the most ubiquitous and yet least understood materials in our lives. From the windows that let in light to the mirrors that reflect our images, glass is everywhere, yet we rarely think about the process by which it is made.

Sarah is a curatorial fellow at the National Gallery of Ireland. She does research on the gallery's permanent collection, looks for photographic works to add to the gallery's collection, and puts together exhibitions that show art in new and interesting ways.

Zahra's love of hanging flowers and painting them with cotton buds shows how art can be both relaxing and a way to show who you are.

Are you a book worm? Learn how to make a sketchbook from your own homemade paper, which you can use to kickstart your own artistic career!

Now we're going to tie dye some t-shirts with the natural dyes we made. Make some groovy t-shirts with the swirl technique by following along with this demo!

Art is a limitless form of self-expression that allows you to create whatever you desire, without the pressure of perfection, and it is ultimately up to you to define what art means to you.

Feel like a King or Queen, with your own crown! In this week's demo, we'll make a headpiece out of different types of metal, using Repoussé.

Batik is a unique dyeing technique that uses wax resist to create intricate patterns on fabric.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

Leanne McDonagh is an artist and teacher. As the Traveller Education Coordinator for Cork Institute of Technology, she uses her art to show and record her community from the inside.

Hold onto your seat! Learn how to construct a chair out of paper, taking inspiration from famous Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray.

Pinhole photography is a beautiful and fun way to take pictures. It uses a dark box with a tiny hole to make an image, and the simple materials and hands-on process help you understand photography better.

Joe Caslin is a street artist and art teacher who believes that it’s an artist’s job to try and make young people question and to think differently, and his art asks us to consider how we can become better and kinder.

This is Colour! It can be natural or man-made, and some of the craziest stories in art history are about colour.

Explore the fascinating world of paper conservation with the help of Sophie, a paper detective who has given us special access to a top-secret area of the Chester Beatty Museum.

Meet Yahia and his brother Adam! They love making art together and having fun while they do it.

The Brightening Ballyfermot project successfully transformed a graffiti-covered bridge into a beautiful street art mural representing diversity, fostering teamwork and expression of emotions through art, showing how it can unite and accept everyone regardless of race or ethnicity.

Abu Bakar likes to draw scary monsters with names like "Mr. Spikey Hands" that have different colours and features to show off his creativity and his pride in being an artist.

Create art along side Ross as he illustrates his way through each episode by downloading our helpful instructions.

Make your own backstrap loom using this ancient technique to become a weaver and make your own textile pattern!

This is Glass! It’s hard but delicate, tough but brittle, sharp but smooth …a real contradiction, yet we don’t know how glass was discovered.

Get cooking in our latest demo!

Make your own natural dye using vegetables, herbs and spices. Once we have the dye made we will use it to dye some fabric to see what colours it produces.

This is Fibre! From the threads we wear to the textiles beneath our feet, we often interact with fibres in ways we hardly notice.

Henna is a beautiful form of art that has been a part of many cultures for a long time and it allows people to express themselves through intricate and unique designs.

Meet Geraldine Wisdom, a professional artist who has been working with rushes since she was 10 years old. Growing up beside Lochberg, she was fascinated by the beauty and versatility of the rushes that grew around her.

It's Repoussé time! Taking a look at an ancient metalworking technique known as 'Repoussé'.

Do you have an unwanted jumper? Why not transform it into a Hooded Scarf, that you can stay warm in all year round!

In the demo we convert an old unwanted tie into a stylish OBI Belt that your friends or family members can wear.

Eben makes beautiful flamework objects from glass in his garden shed!

Don't know what to do with your old tights? Turn them into something exciting to wear on your head. Like a fascinator!