Syra Larkin. Syra studied art at Hammersmith College of Art London and qualified with merit in 1972. She moved to Ireland with her luthier husband Chris in 1977. They have lived and worked in the Maharees, Castlegregory for over 40 years. Syra has taken part in many of the major open submission exhibitions in Ireland. She has …
Louise Barrett is a professional portrait painter, figurative and conceptual artist working mostly in oil and acrylics. Born in 1980, she was strongly influenced early on by the ethos of the home schooling she and her two sisters Ailbhe and Ester received and went on to pursue a course of self-determined study in painting and …
John Shinnors John Shinnors was born in Limerick and studied drawing and painting at Limerick School of Art & Design from 1970-72. He has had regular solo exhibitions in Ireland. Since the 1980s, he has undertaken several large-scale commissions, and his work is represented in public and private collections in Ireland and abroad. In 2002, …
Eleanor Swan. b.1959, lives in Newbridge, Co Kildare, Ireland is a passionate ceramic artist and has a successful practice working full time from her studio at Russborough House, Blessington, Co Wicklow, Ireland. Swan graduated from NCAD (National College of Art and Design, Dublin) in 2006 with BDes (Ceramics) 1st Class Hons and an MA in …
Ludmila was born in 1965 in the Ukraine and graduated form the Kiev State Academy of Fine Art in 1989 working as an artist in Prague until her move to Ireland in 1996. “Renowned for capturing the unique essence of the intangibility of time, Ludmila has applied this skill to a collection of works which …
Sheila Richardson is an award winning artist. She studied at the Limerick School of Art in 1991 gaining a Distinction in painting. She received an Arts Council grant to pursue a Master degree at the University of Wales and while there won the Liquitex prize for outstanding talent in the discipline of painting. She continued …
Jane is a self-taught artist . working as a full-time professional painter for over twenty years. In her words ‘painting has developed and sharpened my eye.I now see a beauty in things and places that in my younger years I would have past by. My aim is to bring that out in my work and enable others …
Cork based ceramicist Charlie Mahon is an artist and a ceramist, both are his passions and the result is his unique, personality filled work. In the 1980’s Charlie studied art in Limerick followed by sculpture in Crawford College of Art in Cork and won a scholarship to study ceramics at the University of Mississippi. . …
Frank O Sullivan is an artist based in Limerick. Born in Cork in 1977. He studied at LSAD and graduated with a Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking in 1998. He works primarily in oil or acrylic on canvas, creating characters and streetscapes using bold colours and graphic lines. He has completed a number of community …
Mary Neville was born in Ireland and graduated from the National College of Art & Design in 1988.She worked as a graphic designer for five years in Scotland, before she lived and painted in Taiwan 1995-2000, with a year out in 1997 to travel in Africa.Her paintings are a celebration of colour, with her early …
