Two Laois students have won top prizes in this year’s 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
In the 12-13 year age category, Beth Phelan (13), from Paint Pots Art Group, Ballyfin, won second prize for her work entitled ‘The Farmhouse’.
Her artwork is described by Final Adjudicator, Gary Granville, Professor Emeritus of Education at the National College of Art and Design as “art through which the artist has captured a whole cultural experience in her image of an old farmhouse with free range poultry wandering about”.
In addition, Anna McCarthy (9), from Emo National School, Portlaoise, won a Special Merit Award for her artwork entitled ‘Teddy Bear’.
Professor Granville said ‘demonstrated high levels of skill and imagination’.
The Texaco Children’s Art Competition is popularly regarded as the longest-running sponsorship in the history of arts sponsoring in Ireland, with an unbroken history that dates back to the very first Competition held in 1955.
This year, as has been the case throughout its life, it has been a platform on which young artists from Laois and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
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