Ateliers Créatifs avec Fiona Dowling

Alliance Française Dublin is delighted to launch a new series of monthly bilingual creative & drawing workshops in partnership with French-Irish multidisciplinary artist Fiona Dowling. These events designed for children, teenagers and adults, take place on Saturdays and explore a different creative practice each time, such as gouache illustration, diary drawings, print-making, comic-strips, miniature portraits & badge-making, watercolour skyscapes, and puppet-making.

For each edition there are 2 sessions available: 7 to 15 years old (12.30pm-1.30pm) and over 16 (1.45pm-3pm)

€30 / €15 for AF Members

14 December: Print-making and Wrapping-paper design

Using craft foam, wood blocks, ink pads and tissue paper in a variety of colours, participants will print wrapping paper with their own stamps and designs for the festive season.

22 February: Puppet-making

Using metal wire, plaster of Paris and printed fabric, participants will create their own articulated puppet. 

22 March: Miniatures and badge-making

Working with a selection of materials ranging from pencils to gouache, participants will create a personalised gift in the shape of a miniature portrait (of a person or pet) which will then be made into a wearable badge. 

26 April: Zine/ mini-book making

Using a given prompt, a folded A3 sheet of paper and a choice of materials, each participant will get to make their own zine, mini-comic or mini storybook. 

17 May: Workshop part of the Comic Book Festival 2025 – Diary Drawing

Coinciding with the Alliance Française Comics Festival, this month’s workshops will explore making diary comics, documenting our daily life, and being the heroe of our own story. 

14 June: Painting the summer sky

Using watercolour, participants will explore how to create different sorts of skies and effects in the sky, from sunsets, to clouds, to stars.