MEET RÓISÍN CURÉ

23 Jun

Róisín Curé grew up in Enniskerry, near Powerscourt Waterfall. After a few years in London and Paris, she settled in Galway, where she obtained a Master's degree and raised her family in the countryside near the coast at Kilcolgan. Róisín has taught urban sketching all over Ireland and Europe and has worked for various national tourism agencies in countries across the continent, including through Spanish and French. She founded the Galway chapter of Urban Sketchers which is now a thriving group who meet to sketch every week. She is Ireland's only instructor with the global Urban Sketchers, teaching in the USk Symposia in Porto (2018) and Amsterdam (2019), and for USk Switzerland in Bern (2021).

She has taught sketching in France at Clermont Dessine (2022) and in Spain for Compostela Ilustrada (2019 and 2022). She is the author of three bestselling books on urban sketching. An Urban Sketcher's Galway was published by Currach Press in 2019 (2nd edition published in 2024 by Red Stripe Press as Galway In Sketches And Stories); The Urban Sketching Handbook: Drawing Expressive Peoplewas published in the US by Quarto (2020) and has now been translated into Spanish; and Dublin In Sketches And Stories was published by Merrion Press in 2021, with a 2nd edition in 2024. Since 2020, Róisín has taught a worldwide community of sketchers live online, which continues as a weekly Sketch Club. She is the inventor of the SketchPocket bag for urban sketchers, the design of which she came up with in order to truly make art anywhere. It's currently in production and will be available soon. Róisín is a member of the Watercolour Society of Ireland and taught various workshops nationwide.

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