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Isabel Brady is a Wexford based artist. Isabel studied Art and Architecture at Margaret St. College of Art in Birmingham. She has had many successful one-woman exhibitions in England, Ireland and Germany. In 1988 one of her works was hung in the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art in Dublin and many of her works have been on show in several prestigious Irish Galleries. Isabel is a very versatile artist, covering a wide range of subjects and medium. She has a broad free style, being influenced by the the Impressionists. Isabel now considers herself to be an Irish Artist as she has settled in Ireland.
Irish artist Clare Hartigan has been involved in creative activity since she was a child growing up in Castleconnell, County Limerick. She studied printmaking at the Limerick School of Art and Design and then moved to Cork where she started painting.After a few years, Clare returned to her home village where she now works full-time as an artist. Clare's most important interests are her painting and her family; her partner Eoghan and their son Oisin and daughter Daisy. more
Peter is an emerging artist and illustrator specialising in pen and ink sketches and sketches with watercolours. His subjects are predominantly buildings and street scapes and he has a particular interest in this area.
Caroline Levis has been exhibiting and selling watercolours for more than 20 years. Born in Dublin, her family are from Bantry in Cork, where she spends many weeks painting each year. Caroline paints full-time and is considered a 'true' watercolour artist. Her style echoes the soft textures of the Irish landscape and her seascapes capture the rawness of the coastline. Many of Caroline's paintings can be found in homes and public buildings in Ireland, England, France, Crete, America - both North and South.
Self-taught, he paints exclusively in oils and feels there is a mystery and enchantment in the 'shadowy hours', which is reflected in many of his nocturnal compositions. He visits Paris and Venice regularly , where he finds an endless supply of subjects and inspiration:'The light in these cities is amazing and at night there is a truly superb atmosphere.'He admires the work of Palmer, Lautrec, Bonnard, Modigliani and Utrillo.
McSorley is a believer in artistic integrity and does not over-produce pictures of a great similarity. Each painting uniquely records an individual personal experience, because, he argues 'If people are paying up to and over £1,000 for a painting, they should expect originality'. more
Bernie Prendergast was born in Claremorris, Co Mayo in 1961. She studied Fine Art at Galway Techical College and afterwards at Limerick College of Art. Bernie has exhibited art in the Claremorris Open Art Exhibition since 1983. In that year she was one of the youngest artists in the group and won first prize. Bernie's speciality is in Charcoal Portraits and occasionally in pencil, pen and wash. Over the last number of years Bernie has illustrated several children's story books including "Children's Hospital Stories", the Irish books "Timin and Nollaig", "Na Cailleacha Granna" and "Coileach". She has also illustrated the Irish Language Learner books called "Muzzy" and "Muzzy Aris".
Padraig Leech is a young, mostly self taught artist working in a number of mediums. Padraig lives in Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim with his wife Marie and their three children Annie, Ellen and Patrick.
Padraic Quinn is a young award winning northern artist, educated at St. MacNissi's College in North Antrim and at Belfast College of Art.
Peggy studied Painting and Fine Arts in the South of England and later took a teaching diploma and taught in a boys grammar school. Peggy has always painted, squeezing it in between having seven children. She is now painting full time.
Portrait painting has always been her main interest, but living in Ireland, its landscapes have drawn her into painting them as well. Peggy's paintings are in many private collections in Canada, America, Japan, Hong Kong as well as in England and Ireland. more
Kathleen Garrett is a native of County Tipperary and now resides in Portlaoise, County Laois. She studied Painting and Western Art with the O.C.A./Glamorgan University, Great Britian, and studied RE & Soc. Education at the N. U. I. Maynooth College in County Kildare. She also writes short stories and poetry and has been published in two Laois Anthologies and broadcast on local radio.
Ann is from County Westmeath and paints in oils, pencil and charcoal. She is currently completing a degree in Fine Art at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology and creates representational studies of people, animals and landscapes.
Richard is an amateur artist, specialising is pen and ink sketches, predominantly of historic buildings, as he has a particular interest in this area. He was trained on a drawing board as a draughtsman before the advent of computerised draughting. He is now a self-employed structural engineer (specialising in historic buildings). Richard and his family are originally from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in England and now they live in County Longford.
Richard describes himself as an amateur artist having no formal artistic training or arts qualification. He has undertaken commissions for people producing one off pen and ink sketches at A5 through to A3 size. Please Note Richard's Gallery is Under Construction.
Sheelagh works mostly in pencil, pen, watercolours and sometimes in pastels. She is from the Boyne Valley area in County Louth and graduated from Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and has an Art Teachers Diploma from Belfast College of Art. Sheelagh has been a full time art teacher and has exhibited her work in Ireland, Switzerland and Greece.
She was commissioned in 1987 by the Irish Government's Office of Public Works to create a "Illustrated Record of the Phoenix Park". This encompassed 140 pen and ink drawings. In 1989 the President of Ireland Patrick Hillery used a drawing of Sheelagh's on his official Christmas Card.
After graduating from a course in Interior Architecture in Dublin Institute of Technology, Lewis felt that fine art drawing and illustration were more suited to his unique abilities. Since then he has worked meticulously to improve his technique. Primarily a portrait artist, with each new piece he strives to greatly enhance the visual impact and realism of his work. Capturing remarkable likeness in his drawings, Lewis is intent on portraying the emotional expression and individual character of his subject.
Eamon Eardly is a Leitrim based artist. Born in Coventry, England but having lived in Leitrim for all his working life, including seven years as a coalminer in Arigna mines. Self taught, he can paint in watercolours or acrylic and more recently has concentrated on pastels. Eamon has painted landscapes but currently has dedicated his energies to portrait painting. His style is to use strong lighting with an almost impressionist representation of the human face.
