Welcoming Our En Plein Air Artists to Twin Trees Festival!
As the Twin Trees Art & Culture Festival kicks off, we’re eagerly anticipating the arrival of our En Plein Air artists tomorrow at the picturesque[…]
Three Day Teen Art Workshop
August 22nd-24th Experience the personal pleasure and contentment of expressing nature through journaling. This skillset costs little but enhances creativity in many aspects of life[…]
Twin Trees 2024 Tickets Now On Sale
Three Day Tutored En Plein Air Day One Takes place on Thursday August 22nd 2024 in the glorious surroundings of Heywood Gardens, designed in 1906, by Edwin[…]
Heywood Gardens – Tutored En Plein Air Painting
A Very Special En Plein Air Event ‘Three wonderful days in August’, is how we best describe the Twin Trees Festival’s, Tutored En Plein Air[…]
En Plein Air 2021 – Day One Twin Trees Festival
The Art of Painting Outdoors Finally the day arrived and The Twin Trees Heywood Art & Culture Festival 2021 was finally underway, with day one[…]
KCLR 96FM – Interview with Sue Nunn
In Conversation with Sue Nunn We were thrilled to be invited to speak, with the wonderful Sue Nunn of KCLR 96Fm today, on her show,[…]
The Ghosts of Heywood Ballinakill
A Tale from the Schools’ Collection It seems the fascination with Heywood, Ballinakill, is not just a modern conviction! In the late 1930’s, a primary[…]
Twin Trees Festival – Our En Plein Air Tutors
A Brief Introduction The tutors for the ‘En Plein Air’ event are two exceptional and experienced artists, Bridget Flannery and Jock Nichol. Bridget and Jock[…]
Gardens Open 2020 Guide
The good news is that gardens available for public visiting are once again… open, following the lifting of pandemic restrictions on movement, including our very[…]
Fire At Heywood House Ballinakill – January 1950
After the departure of the Poe family from Heywood, the house was sold to the then Leix Board of Health, with a plan to transform[…]