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My images are the result of my personal struggle to accept and find beauty in my immediate world, it means keeping an eye on the past and recognizing the demands of the immediate. Underwriting everything ...
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Anthony has been painting the West Cork landscape since he and his family first bought a house near Schull over forty years ago. His mother was an accomplished artist and worked in oils. Anthony works ...
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Christine Thery was born and raised in Hong Kong of mixed Russian, French and Welsh descent. She completed a 4 year degree course at Winchester College of Art where she received her B.A. with first ...
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Cormac was born in Cork City, Ireland in 1969, and studied at Sligo RTC from 1987 to 1991. Having acquired a National Diploma in Fine Art he moved to Barcelona, Spain, where he regularly visited ...
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Dee paints from her studio in West Cork. She works in oils, mainly with palette knife, to achieve texture, tone and depth. A signature theme of her work is the play of light on water ...
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Born in Cork City in 1972, Diarmuid graduated in 2012 from the DIT Visual Art Degree course on Sherkin Island. Living and working in Ireland his art embraces an extensive range of materials and techniques ...
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Born in 1961, Donagh Carey is a native of West Cork, Ireland. He moved to Dublin in 1979 where he worked in advertising as an illustrator and graphic designer for 20 years. He has also ...
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Hammond Journeaux, painter and illustrator, was born in 1964 in New Zealand. She was selected for the Whose Day Book, 1999. She represented Ireland European City of Culture, Cork, 2005. She has exhibited images inspired ...
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Ian Humphreys lives and paints on Heir Island, West Cork. He was born in Hertfordshire in 1956 and moved to Ireland in 1999. He studied at Exeter College of Art, gaining a BA (Hons) Fine ...
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Ian studied at St Martins and Goldsmiths London, and spent some years working in architecture and archaeology in Dublin. He moved to West Cork in 1980 and now devotes his full attention to sculpture and ...
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Isabella trained at the Artistic Lyceum in Padova, Italy, where she was also an art teacher before coming to Ireland to marry and raise a family. She returned to her love of art in recent ...
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Janet lives and works near Skibbereen in Co.Cork. Her influences are firmly rooted in the landscape of West Cork, making the often invisible visible or at least allowing the viewer a close-up glimpse, exploring notions ...
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Before 2000 I touched on graphic design & animation, studied painting, and found myself working for a fantastic Dublin theatre company called Bedrock under director Jimmy Fay. At this point I realised I wanted to ...
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Growing up in the 1950’s in San Diego, California, painter John David Ratajkowski remembers “being able to draw anything I could see.”  Fascinated as a boy by all variety of materials, Ratajkowski was early on ...
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John Jermyn lives on the edge of the cliff at Fennell’s Bay, Crosshaven in County Cork, Ireland. This proximity to nature has nurtured in him a fascination with landscape - the power, atmosphere, and mood ...
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Photographic portraits exhibiting at the Aisling Art Gallery: Yves St. Laurent, London, 1969 Shane MacGowan Sinead O'Connor John Minihan is an Irish photographer, born in Dublin in 1946 and raised in Athy, County Kildare. At ...
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June spent two years studying textiles in Winchester College of Art and Design before marrying and becoming a mother. In the early sixties she moved to Dublin and was working as a dress designer/maker for ...
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2015 I have lived in Ireland since 1989. I was a nurse in London but am now following a life-time ambition to become a professional artist. I work from The Bootshed Art Studio just outside ...
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Kate Toullis graduated in stained glass from Glasgow School Of Art. Having moved to West Cork in 1980 she has exhibited in both Scotland and Ireland. Her works are mainly in watercolour and collage and ...
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Lar Maguire was born in Dublin in 1953 and moved to Abbeylara, County Longford in 2003 where he has lived since. Becoming unemployed in 2012, Lar found himself with time on his hands and decided ...
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Patrick studied at the NCAD, moving to West Cork in 1971 to set up a sculpture studio. He was a visiting lecturer at the NCAD, the Crawford College and Limerick regional college from 1976 – ...
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"I love the richness, feeling of stillness, suspension and possibility in icons, thangkas and medieval European art, and hope to express a similar feeling of a thoughtful, timeless moment in my paintings." Blue House Gallery, ...
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Born in 1972, Sara was brought up in Devon, living for many years in the market town of Newton Abbot where her love of racing began. She went on a year long Art Foundation course ...
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Moving to Ireland in 1980 was the result of an increasing desire for a decisive change in both lifestyle and environment and West Cork had re-awakened happy childhood memories of life in a rural society ...
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