ARTFORM - Key Persons
Aidan currently lives and works in rural west Sligo where he focuses primarily on observational painting
Brenda divides her time between her studio in Glendarragh in the Wicklow countryside, teaching workshops around Ireland, and conducting painting…
Alumnus of The Angel Academy, trained extensively in the art of figurative and portrait painting.
A regular exhibitor with the RHA Open Exhibition, Flannery has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1981.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Graphic Studio Dublin
Daniel Lipstein is a printmaker and painter, member of The Graphic
Studio Dublin since 2002. Upon his graduation in 2006 from the fine art print faculty of NCAD he received the CAP Foundation award that allowed him to do large scale paintings in 2007, in 2009 he graduated from the MFA course
Dave comes from Enniscorthy, County Wexford and has gained critical acclaim worldwide for his hyper-realistic portraits & online viral videos.
Dave West is a full time artist and art tutor originally from South Wales and now living in North County Dublin. He studied Illustration at the Carmarthenshire College of Art & Design and more recently gained a degree in Art History.
Dave's practice comfortably crosses several art forms and he is equally at home working in pencil, charcoal, pastel and oil paint.
Dave is passionate about ‘plein air' painting which involves working (in all weathers) directly from the subject. In 2017 he won the Gold Mayoral Award at the ‘Art in the Open' international plein air painting festival.
He has had numerous solo exhibitions and exhibited widely in Group Shows including the Royal Hibernian Academy and Royal Ulster Academy, and in the UK with the Royal West of England Academy, Royal Society of Oil Painters, Royal Society of Marine Artists, The New English Art Club, The Royal Society of British Artists, and the UK Pastel Society, at which he won the 2013 Schminke Award.
Fionn is a Dublin based photographer. He divides his time between commissioned work and fine art photography.
Ryan graduated from IADT Dubllin (1997) and has won numerous awards, including the Paul Henry Landscape Prize at the RUA…
Gabhann Dunne is a Dublin-based painter. He is also a former winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award (2011) and…
Grahame Booth is a watercolour impressionist who captures the essence of a subject rather than precise detail, using a logical approach to translate the landscape into watercolours full of light, excitement and impact.
Hanneke is a Welsh-Dutch artist. She has held six solo exhibitions since moving to Ireland in 2011 and has been…
Helen studied sculpture in NCAD, Belfast college of art and design and Artibus Utrecht, Netherlands. For the last 20 years…
John Short was born in Scotland. He has lived and worked for many years in Ireland. He studied Illustration and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and The Royal College of Art, London. He has been the recipient of many awards including the Royal College of Art drawing prize, The Berger colour prize and The Artist's prize in The Royal Watercolour Society, London and The President's award in The Irish Watercolour Society.
His artworks have appeared in many publications and are in many corporate and private collections. He exhibits regularly nationally and internationally and is represented by The Solomon Fine Art Gallery in Dublin. John was Senior Lecturer in Imagemaking in Visual Communication Design in the Technical University Dublin. He also teaches creative workshops on locations internationally.
John Short is represented by The Solomon Fine Art Gallery in Dublin. He has been the recipient of many awards…
Julie's abstracted landscapes are vibrant, layered and have always been rooted in drawing. Working on paper, wood and canvas she combines paint with drawn elements as drawing for her is not only a way to represent object or place, but is also a way to engage in the intuitive physicality of making marks on a surface.
Julie has been practicing drawing and painting for 15 years and has exhibited extensively within Ireland and abroad including the…
Justin Laffan, born1952, son of George Laffan sculptor and art dealer. He was exposed to art from an early age and went to the National Collage of Art in the early 1970s. Justin worked in the Dublin Art Foundry casting bronze with John Behan.
Justin went to California in the mid 70s and worked with a conceptual art group, where he soon realized that ideas were not all important and that that the material must speak as well. On his return he helped promote a revival of stone carving in Ireland, with the Independent Artists sculpture group.
Justin Laffan grew up in a world of art; his father George was a sculptor, and an art dealer. He has a great understanding of materials and how to use them. His skills extend beyond sculpture; he is an accomplished art conservator and restorer. His work is also in great demand from interior designers.
The execution of his work is fast and intense from clear ideas. He is fascinated with the ageing process of his materials which give his work a timeless quality, never influenced by fashion. He has a great love of animal forms which gives his work a sense of fun and love of life.
He has undertaken public and private commissions and his work is in collections both here and abroad.
Job Titles:
- Artist
- Member of Black Church Print Studio
Mary O'Connor is an artist and printmaker from Wexford, currently living in Dun Laoghaire. Mary studied at TU in Dublin, Chelsea College of Art, London, and in New Zealand. She also lived in Belize, Central America and for eleven years in Kazakhstan, Central Asia. She repatriated to Ireland in 2014.
Mary had a solo exhibition at SO Fine Art Editions in 2020 and has a forthcoming solo exhibition there in 2024. She exhibits regularly in group exhibitions including the Royal Academy London Summer Exhibition, RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin, RUA Annual Exhibition in Belfast, and The Model Sligo. She was recipient of the Galway City Council Purchase Prize at Impressions 2019, and completed four commissioned wall murals in Capitol Dock, Dublin. She has taken part in various group shows by emerging spaces including Glove Box Gallery and Outset Gallery. In 2022 she was Shortlisted for the Beep Painting Biennial Prize. Most recently Mary designed a Ceadogan rug as part of the ‘Island' exhibition in Hang Tough Gallery in support of the Peter McVerry foundation for the homeless. Mary is a member of Black Church Print Studio and is represented by SO Fine Art Editions.
A member of Black Church Print Studio. Mary has been selected for many group exhibitions and has completed residencies in…
Michael Mulcahy is a renowned expressionist artist who has represented Ireland all over the world. He holds the highest Irish…
Michael Wann is a Sligo-based charcoal artist. He has been awarded the AXA Insurance Drawing Prize (2010)...
Mick O'Dea was elected President of the RHA in 2014 and he is an elected member of Aosdána since 1996.
Neal Greig was born in Belfast in 1965. He completed a BA Hons in Fine Art at Edinburgh College of Art from 1983 -1987 then went onto postgraduate studies in Drawing and Painting 1988 - 1989.
He was awarded the Andrew Grant Scholarship for Postgraduate Study. In 1991 he was Artist in Residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre and was awarded other residencies with at Vermont Studio Centre Fellowship (Vermont, USA), Ballinglen Fellowship, O'Reardon House Fogo Island Newfoundland, Ontario Art Society Field Trip and Cill Raillig Art Studios. In 2018 Neal was elected to the Royal Ulster Academy.
Neal has exhibited both in Ireland and the UK, his work is held in private and public collections including the Norther Ireland Arts Council collection. He had his last solo exhibition with Gormleys Fine Art in October 2020.
Neal's inspiration comes from the quiet corners of woodlands and lakes of Tyrone, Fermanagh, Armagh and Monaghan as well as the west coast of Ireland, and further field.
P. J. Lynch has won many awards for his work as a book illustrator including the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal…
Renate Holzner, born 1959 lives and works close to Regensburg in the southern part of Germany. She began her carrier…
A native of Dublin, Sheila Naughton is an Honours graduate of NCAD and Ecole Cantonale des Beaux Arts et d'Arts…
My art is inspired by the natural world, using watercolour paints to capture light, colour and texture on paper and…
Steve uses acrylics and paints on location (plein air). Steve finds the forgiving nature and flexibility of acrylic paints are ideal for the challenges painting in the open.
I have had numerous solo exhibitions of my work in England, Ireland and France, participated in many mixed exhibitions including…
A passionate outdoor oil painter, Tony has travelled to paint in several European countries and in the USA with overseas…
My training and work process is based on working from life. I studied in NY and in Canada and have…