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Says Clara of her winning entry, “My artwork is inspired by a picture that was taken at the Sunrise Service on Easter Sunday, just across from St David’s. This was after the service with myself and my three friends.

Finn MacMahon with Goldfish Telecom’s Gordon O’Neill FRI878MAY26
here’s a growing sense here at GG HQ that the town’s teens are just too cool these days for our annual Splash Of Colour kids art competition.

Clara with mum Alison FRI8MAY26
Even though it’s open to everyone up to 18 years of age, more and more, it’s the younger generation who are creating all the wonderful entries.
Still, we’ll survive. Especially when you have previous champs St Catherine’s once again pulling out all the stops with their early offerings, their controlled explosions of tint, tinge and tone nothing less than inspired, and inspiring.
By the end of the competition though, the public and the judges were pretty much of the same mind as two very wonderful entries took two very distinct and distant leads.
With Callum, Eva and Lauren also winning praise and fans, the public vote finally went to Clara Williams’ Sunrise On Easter Sunday, her use of paper, watercolour and clay along with gathered shells and stones – and a shoe box! – proving an instant hit from the moment we added it to the gallery.
For the judges, it was the last-minute entry of Finn MacMahon’s Day & Night, a rich tapestry of the town’s landmarks – from The Burnaby to The Beach Bear – that they felt caught with simple marker paints a true sense of Greystones.
“This was a painting that I thought about for a week or two before committing it to canvas,” Finn tells us, “but once I actually sat down to paint Day & Night, it only took about three hours. Mainly because I knew exactly what I wanted.

Finn, Gordon and Finn’s mum, Fiona FRI8MAY26
here’s a growing sense here at GG HQ that the town’s teens are just too cool these days for our annual Splash Of Colour kids art competition.

The reason I chose this picture is because when I look at it, I think of Greystones.”