Welcome

The Pine Forest Art Centre at Glencullen, in the Dublin Mountains, has been providing creative and educational Art and Craft Courses to children and young people for over 35 years. The Art Centre is set in beautiful rural scenery surrounded by mountains, woods, and streams. Click here to find out more about our location.

Our Courses / Camps

The Centre runs two-week summer camps, during July and August, for children age 5 -12 years and teenagers age 13-16 years. There is also a Portfolio Preparation course during the summer for young people age 16-19 years.

A private bus service runs from many South Dublin suburbs.

We run an Easter Camp and a Halloween Camp during the school holidays.

During the school year, we provide Art & Craft activity days for primary schools and other interested groups.

These school workshop days take place in October for Halloween fun creations and in November and December for Christmas.

There are school tour days between March and June.

The day is packed with fun art & craft activities and includes time for a Nature walk.

We also have a Thursday after-school art class for 5-12 year olds during term time.

Click here to view more about the courses and to make your bookings.

The Activities

We do a wide variety of art and craft activities including painting, pottery, sketching, beadwork, woodwork, modelling, enamelling, weaving, batik, paper crafts, sculpture, printing, etc according to the student’s age, ability and interests.

Pine Forest Art Centre has been developing and delivering fun and instructive art and craft activities for children and young people for over 35 years and is well known to generations of Dublin and visiting children. Children are divided into groups of their own age and are outdoors whenever the weather and the activity permit. They go on a mountain/forest walk at lunch break.

Click here to read more about the activities on the courses and camps.

More Information

For more information about the Pine Forest Art Centre, please click here. To view our advertising posters, please click here. If you would like to join our mailing list, please click here or on the link on the bottom of each page. We also have a Frequently Asked Questions file available for you. Please click here or on FAQ on the bottom of this page.

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"The Pine Forest Art Centre extracted my children from the 'burbs for several years. It was easy to get them to the bus and when they returned in the evening they were full of fresh air and healthily tired. In addition they had achieved something every day, and at the end of the week came home with a bursting boxfull of paintings and crafted goodies. Knowing that they were with qualified teachers and given creative space with strong parameters was a great comfort. I can't recommend the Pine Forest highly enough!" D Wynne, Dunlaoghaire