Texaco Children's Art deadline looms

School pupils who take part in the annual Texaco Children’s Art Competition are reminded that the closing date for receipt of entries this year is Monday 28 February next. Last year over 420 pupils from schools in Co. Kildare submitted entries to the Competition.

Now in its 68th year, the Texaco Children’s Art Competition is widely acknowledged as the longest running arts sponsorship in Ireland.

In the 66th Texaco Children's Art Competition in 2020, local young artist Della Cowper-Gray — then a pupil at Scoil Bhride in Kilcullen, now in CPC — was one of four Kildare child artists to win an award, for her portrait The Mighty Finn. Last year she won the Zurich Young Portrait Prize at the National Gallery of Ireland. Her portrait was  Painting in a different world now (My father The Artist).

Della's younger sister Mae is also an accomplished artist, and her portrait of her best friend, Ella Browne, with the title Missing Ella (Loneliness during Lockdown), won her a national category first prize in the 2021 Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

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