Mark O’Neill
Mark O’Neill was born in Birkenhead in 1963 to Irish parents. The family travelled a great deal due to his father’s work, spending time in Malta, Peru, Nigeria, Mauritius, South Africa,and Drogheda! When he was 12 they returned to England and Mark went to school in Liverpool where he was encouraged into the arts by […]
Marissa Weatherhead
Marissa has a broad vocabulary in paint which emerges in different applications depending on the given subject. Her still life paintings involve the assessment of colour, form, space and composition in an academic yet free flowing manner, while her landscape paintings use the application of paint to convey an emotional response to the beautiful scenery […]
Margo Banks
The role of drawing is fundamental to my work. These drawings of crows and animals are sometimes prefaces to paintings, and sometimes a relaxation from them. They are works in their own right. They are witnesses to the changes in the landscape of Teeromoyle in South West Kerry – my mother’s place. My mother died […]
Malcolm Bennett
Malcolm Bennett was born in 1942 and has been active in the Irish art scene for over forty years. Indeed his first shows with the Caldwell were when the gallery was barely four years old itself. His style is strongly rooted in the Irish school of abstract landscape painting, the rich surfaces of his paintings […]
Leonard Sexton
Leonard Sexton, painting now for 30 years, studied painting under Patrick Graham, one of Ireland’s most renowned contemporary artists. He taught for some years after graduation, before embarking on a career which saw him rapidly develop his own individual style, as well as creating a following which has resulted in several sell-out exhibitions. Leonard Sexton’s […]
Laura Cronin
Laura was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, as the eighth daughter of ten children. Her higher education began at Trinity College Dublin in a business degree programme, before her apparent gift drew her to the USA to study at the School of visual Arts in New York where on graduating she was awarded the […]
Kevin Lowery
Kevin Lowery is a seascape devoted painter living and working in the North-West of Ireland. Living by the sea all his life has inspired Kevin to paint the rolling surf, merciless oceanic turmoil, and the ever changing skies found along the coastline. Human beings have always had an intimate relationship with the water, and Kevin […]
Kenneth Webb
Primarily a landscape painter in the romantic tradition, Kenneth Webb’s subjects of bog-scapes, sea scapes, and wild flower meadows have been truly original contributions to Irish art over the past 50 years. He evokes a Gallic sense of mystery and mood in his impressionist waterlily and bog and landscape paintings of Connemara. A fascination with […]
Kate Beagan
Kate Beagan is an Irish Artist currently living in Co. Monaghan. She has exhibited throughout Ireland and Australia. Over the years she has won many art awards such as the Australian Rotring award for Drawing and the Henry Chapman award for watercolour. Simplicity would seem to be an identifying factor in Kate’s work, but simplicity […]
John Morris
John Morris was born in Dublin in 1958. He lives in Abbeyfeal in Limerick, with his wife and three children. He has been painting since the late 1990s. He is largely self taught, having met and learned from the artist Brian Quinn after meeting him painting ‘en plein air’ in 1997. John’s paintings are spontaneous, […]
John Dinan
John Dinan was born and raised in Glasnevin, Dublin. His college degree was in Engineering and he worked in this field for many years. However he was always more in tune with the Fine Arts, and every spare moment was spent painting and drawing and studying the styles of the painters he loved – such […]
J.P. Rooney
Born under the name of Martin Hasson in 1950 in Northern Ireland, Hasson began painting and drawing at the young age of three. Hasson worked as an in-house and freelance graphic designer and painted landscapes, portraits, abstracts and seascapes using oils, watercolours and pen and ink. In the 80’s, Hasson staged his first successful one […]
Gillian Murphy
Artist: Gillian Murphy B. Des. MA Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1964 Gillian is an artist and graphic designer. Gillian’s move to Brussels in 2006 allowed her the opportunity to fulfil a long held ambition to begin painting. Gillian’s early work, which focuses mainly on still life uncovers the profound beauty in simple everyday objects […]
Diana Pivovarova
Born in Latvia, now living in Galway, Diana studied painting in the Latvian Academy of Arts. She also trained as a classical musician. Her vibrant paintings can be viewed as a singular vision of the Irish landscape through the eyes of a European artist and musician. Nature, music and life experience are what inspire her […]
Desmond Carrick
Desmond Carrick was born in Dublin in 1928 and educated at the National College of Art in Ireland where he studied drawing under Sean Keating and Maurice MacGonical. He was elected a full member of the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Ireland in 1968 and served as RHA Secretary between 1968 and 1982. Although […]
Denise M. Ryan
Denise M. Ryan studied at the Limerick School Of Art and had her first solo exhibition in 1973 at the Thomond Gallery Limerick, shortly after graduating. Up to 2014 she worked from her Studio in Ballyvaughan, Co Clare where the landscape and the Burren shoreline were the focus of her work for many years. From […]
Deirdre Walsh
Deirdre Walsh lives and paints in Mayo where she is continually inspired by an elusive light. After graduating from University in Galway she spent six years in New York where she studied painting at Parsons School of Design and The Art Students League. During that time she had an opportunity to set up an Art […]
David Coyne
David Coyne was born in Dublin in 1979. He is a full time artist living and working in the West of Ireland. David attended the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art & Design where he studied film and photography. He is a self-taught painter who works with oils as his chosen medium. All his work is […]
Cara Gordon
Cara Gordon was born in Belfast and studied fine art at Newcastle University. Working mainly in charcoal, ink and acrylic, her work covers a wide variety of subjects. Over the years animals, and in particular dogs, have been a recurring theme in her work – the vitality of the animal reflected in the spontaneity […]
Brendan Walsh
Brendan received a BA Fine Art in GMIT Galway, Post Graduate Diploma in Crawford school of Art. His painting ‘Organic Motor’ featured in a Sunday Independent article on GMIT Fine Art programme. Exhibitions Galway Arts Centre. Linenhall Arts Centre , Castlebar. Exhibitions USA 2010-2015 Ashawagh Hall Gallery, East Hampton, NY. Rivers Edge Art Gallery, Wyandotte/Detroit […]
Jason O’Ceannobhain
I am a wildlife, equine and portrait artist working and living in Kildare, Ireland. As a wildlife enthusiast, my work is strongly influenced by Irelands native animals and rolling landscapes. Working primarily in acrylic, pencil and charcoal, my technique is characterized by a close attention to detail, depth and composition to accurately capture the spirit […]
James Brohan
Born in Dublin in 1952 James studied painting and anatomy under the direction of Yann Goulet, RHA from 1985-86. His influence on James was to look and observe, and he told Brohan ‘If you cant see it you cant paint it’, thus an artist should be able to look and capture in his minds eye […]
Anne Merrins
Born in Dublin in 1961, Anne emigrated to Canada with her family at the age of 15, where she lived for 15 years, studying art, and Psychology at McGill University, in Montreal. While the Canadian wilderness proved a great inspiration, it is the stark ‘Irishness’ of Connemara and it’s people that has always been at […]
Brendán O’Piotáin
Brendán O’ Piotáin is a self taught sculptor working with wood and metal. He began creating his Celtic sculptors 20 years ago, inspired by local folklore about mystical fairy trees and the rugged landscape of Achill Island, Co. Mayo, his family home. The basic elements of bog oak and copper capture the subtle tones of […]
Brenda Malley
Brenda Malley’s career as a professional artist spans over 30 years while living in the USA, France and now at home in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland. Brenda’s seascape paintings are characterised by the energy and fluidity of her palette knife work, and by the surface richness of colour and texture through which she expresses her […]
Arthur Maderson
Born in 1942 in London, Arthur Maderson studied fine Art from 1959 to 1963 at Camberwell school of Art, South London, where in 1963 he won the Anna Berry Award in open competition with graduates from all the leading Art Schools in England. It was not until 1982 that Arthur exhibited his paintings. His progress […]
Alexandra Van Tuyll
Born in the Netherlands, Alexandra Van Tuyll has travelled widely, settling in Ireland in the seventies. Her background is in music and her work is inspired and influenced by classical music. She attempts to find the balance between dream and reality. She has had solo exhibitions in Ireland, the Netherlands and the USA where her […]
Alan Somers
It might sound strange, but sometimes an extended break from art can be a good thing. Alan Somers spent most of his childhood and teenage years drawing and painting, and at some point it became commonplace, a part of his life taken for granted. When he reached adulthood he stopped and got entangled with chores […]
Kate Kos
Kate Kos is a self-taught Polish artist living and painting in Co. Wexford, which has been her home for the last 15 years. Her fondness for the lightness and unpredictability of watercolour make it her favourite medium and her watercolour paintings can be described as bold and fresh. She has won several awards both nationally […]
Anna St George
Anna St George studied at Limerick School of Art and Design where she completed A.T.C. and P.T.A. exams.She went on to teach at L.S.A.D for a number of years where John Shinnors was one of her students. He acknowledged her influence when opening one of his earlier exhibitions. Jack Donovan was Anna’s mentor for a […]
