Meet The Artists

As Louis le Brocquy said “painting is a secret logic of the imagination”. In self taught artist Anastasia O Donoghue Healy’s attempt to explain her logic, she says her paintings capture “Another Way of Seeing” ...
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Angela Brady was born in Dublin and graduated from DIT in Architecture. She is past president of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects 2011 - 2013) and Director of London based Brady Mallalieu Architects, set ...
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Anne Kenefick, watercolour painter, from Cork City now living in West Cork, studied at the Crawford College of Art, Cork. Then spent three years in Paris, before moving to London, where she continued to develop ...
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Brendan Launders has been a Graphic Artist for 25 years. Brendan worked as an artist in France for 10 years before returning to Ireland in 2014 to set up his art studio in Ballydehob, West ...
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“My parents bought my first set of oil paints when I was eight years old and I sold my first portrait at ten. I graduated in philosophy at Cambridge University (1982) where the study of ...
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Carol James studied at both Brighton and West Sussex Colleges of Art, and graduated with a Fine Arts degree in 1973, specialising in printing, sculpture and printmaking. Personal Statement Ballydehob and West Cork has been ...
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Caroline Clarke draws her inspiration from her passion for nature and everything it encompasses. Her love of wild life and the sea is reflected in her paintings. Caroline was born in Cumbria but spent most ...
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Damaris Lysaght grew up in Doneraile, Co Cork. She studied Fine Art for two years in the Crawford Municipal School of Art in Cork and for an additional two years at the National College of ...
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Deborah's work is featuring in our 2016 Summer Exhibition No' 2 which opened on 1st July. Deborah King was born in Dorset and studied at the Hornsey School of Art in London. After working free-lance ...
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As Edgar Degas put it, “Art is not what you see but what you make others see.” Fiona sees the artist’s mission as conveying to the viewer the emotional sense of a place that she ...
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Helen studied at Crawford College Of Art and graduated in 2010 with an Honours Degree in Fine Art. At present she works in a space at Backwater Artists Studios, Wandesford Quay, Cork. Her work is ...
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Born in Yorkshire in 1944 Jill moved to Ireland in 1994 where she began her formal painting career. Absorbed and inspired by the natural beauty of her adopted home, she paints both seascapes and landscapes ...
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Jo's journey into art and painting began at home as both her parents were practicing artists and art teachers. At a young age she was determined to set out on a different path. Whilst Jo ...
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“Painting has become an essential part of my creative process. I start with a blank canvas. I have no idea how the painting will finish. Using only primary colours, red, yellow and blue, I build ...
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Josephine has been sketching and painting people, horses, cattle, dogs and landscapes and takes commissions. She continues to draw inspiration from the beautiful Irish landscape and its animals. Painting and sketching from a very young ...
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Kathleen Kelley Reardon is a Schull artist and author. Her landscapes and seascapes (watercolour and oil) capture the light and reflections unique to West Cork. Though she studied art history at university in the U.S., ...
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Leda May lives in Ballydehob, West Cork, where she was drawn to the landscape and pace of life, the artistic environment filled her with inspiration. Leda has gone from throwing and decorating domestic ware to ...
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Born in Germany, Margrit O’Shea has lived in West Cork for almost forty years now and could not imagine a better place to live! Intrigued by the ever-changing landscapes and seascapes, she likes to spend ...
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Michael McCarthy has been drawing and painting as long as he can remember. Born in Mallow in 1940, the family moved to Northern Ireland in 1950. It was there that Michael became aware of his ...
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Patricia Carr is a painter living and working in West Cork. She was born in Co. Down in 1965 and has a degree in Drawing and Painting fom Edinburgh College of Art. She worked for ...
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Patricia spent most of her life in the television and film industry as a make-up artist, hairdresser, and wig designer, but at last she has been able to return to creating her art in her ...
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Patrick Madden is an adventurous and creative Cork born artist. He works mainly in acrylics, as well as oils, watercolours, pen and ink mixed media. His paintings have an atmospheric quality energised by his painting ...
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ARCH. RIBA. MRIAI. Peter was born in East London in 1946 and studied at Kingston School of Architecture and Civic Design. He moved to Schull in 1996 and now has his own architectural practice. He ...
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Sam is a member of the Ulster Watercolour Society (UWS) and has been painting Antrim Coastal Scenes for many years in his favourite medium of watercolour. Although now in his early eighties, Sam is still ...
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