Three Cavan students have won top prizes in this year’s 72nd Texaco Children’s Art Competition.
In the 16-18 years age category, Anna Towell (18), from Virgina, won second prize for her work entitled ‘Sightseeing’.
Her artwork is described by Final Adjudicator – Irish visual artist, curator and educator – Pauline O'Connell, as “a sunlit composition in acrylic.
The subject wears a wide-brimmed hat that shields him; his face is already marked by warmth and light. Anna’s blending of tones is handled with confidence and sensitivity.”
In addition, two Cavan students each won Special Merit Awards for artworks that Ms. O’Connell said ‘were imaginative and demonstrated high levels of skill and creativity’.
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 Cavan and counties throughout Ireland have had their talents recognised and their creativity commended.
