Art & Mindfulness: Powerscourt Waterfall

This video is designed to be used in the classroom and demonstrates how to use art as a stimulus for mindful teaching practice.

It is accompanied by Art & Mindfulness: Supporting Children’s Wellbeing in Primary Schools, a comprehensive resource created by teacher and Gallery tour guide Maria Broderick. The resource, available as a PDF and adaptable PowerPoint, includes a step-by-step guide to incorporating mindfulness in the primary classroom, alongside an in-depth look at George Barret's painting of Powerscourt Waterfall, Co. Wicklow.

You can download the resource files from our website here: www.nationalgallery.ie/explore-and-learn/schools/r…

Image: George Barret (1728/32-1784), View of Powerscourt Waterfall, 1760. Oil on canvas, 101.5 x 127.5 cm. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland

Forest sound: freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/
Footsteps, Dry Leaves, G.wav by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org

Mindfulness resource by Maria Broderick for National Gallery of Ireland.