An dealbh mòr

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An Dealbh Mòr is a Gaelic/English children's visual arts and performance project celebrating Skye with a large scale composition developed from drawing in the surrounding landscape.

The project is the first major undertaking of Lasair Ealain (Gaelic for 'Blaze of Art') - a committee of school children from Sleat Primary School. Their long term aim is to set up and manage innovative, ambitious and exciting art projects in collaboration with professional artists of differeing disciplines.
In the organisation and running of An Dealbh Mòr, they worked in collaboration with four artists to celebrate the landscape of South Skye. Between April and October 2005, the students went out every week around South Skye with artists Julie Brook, Kath MacLeod and Sarah Jane MacIntyre to draw the landscape from observation.

After that the children made large charcoal drawings and also worked in water colour. A very successful interim exhibition of these drawings and paintings was held at An Tuireann, Isle of Skye. Lasair Ealain then organised and ran a workshop to teach the public what they learned, which included taking them out for a day's drawing. This event was so popular that they have been asked to do it again. The students then began working on an enormous painting - the peak of this part of the art project - that was placed on the floor of the cafeteria area of Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the Gaelic College in Skye.
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