About the Artists

Katherine Boucher Beug
Katherine Boucher Beug, Bunch of Flowers, mixed media on canvas, 48 x 57 cm, 2012, €2,000 Katherine Boucher Beug seeks the unexpected and fresh in daily observation and expression. This is coupled with a rigourous inquiry into colour based on Joseph Albers’ work. In addition to numerous group shows in Ireland and Europe, the artist has presented three solo shows, at the Fenton Gallery, Cork and at the Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin. Born in the US, she studied at Northwestern University and the Hochschule for Bildende Kunst in Hamburg. She has been working from her studio in Dunderrow, Co. Cork since 1971.

Patricia Burns
Patricia Burns, North Road 5, oil on canvas, 92 x 106 cm, 2012, €3,000 Patricia Burns is particularly interested in the hidden narrative in overlooked or changing parts of the build landscape. Recent solo shows here held at Garter Lane and Triskel Arts Centres, she showed at the 2012 Summer Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy, and she was an invited artist at the 2012 RHA Annual Exhibition in Dublin. Other solo shows include the RHA’s Ashford Gallery, Droichead Arts Centre, South Tipperary Art Centre, the Courthouse Arts Centre in Co. Wicklow, and the Catherine Hammond Gallery. Born in Dublin, lives and works in Cork. Educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Fine Art.

Mary Canty
Mary Canty, An Sridhan-The Stream, oil on canvas, 20 x 20 cm, 2013, SOLD Born in Co. Limerick. Lives in Dublin and has a studio at the Visual Arts Centre. A graduate of NCAD, she has shown extensively since 1985. Canty is a frequent resident at Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Co. Mayo which inspires many of her expressive landscapes. She shows regularly in the RHA annual show and other juried exhibitions around Ireland, and has also had solo shows in Germany, the Netherlands and at the Catherine Hammond Gallery.

Tim Goulding
Tim Goulding, Unravel 18, acrylic & conte pencil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, 2013, €1,650 Has lived and worked in Allihies on the Beara Penninsula since 1969. A member of AOSDANA, Goulding has exhibited extensively in Ireland, England, Portugal and the US. His work is notable for its evolution from a predominately land based inspiration to the current abstract paintings that respond to the patterns, textures and colours of his home and daily live. His work is in major public and private collections in Ireland and around the world.

Carol Hodder
landmarks Lives and works in Co. Cork. A self-taught artist, Hodder has an exceptionally expressive sense of light penetrating or eminating from dark. Her abstract paintings explore emotional response to memory and place, and collectors often comment on the spiritual connection they feel in the work. Hodder has shown at the Crawford Municipal Art Gallery and the Royal Ulster Academy in Belfast. Solo shows include the Catherine Hammond Gallery, Gallery One in Kilkenny, and the Sirius Arts Centre. She has enjoyed residencies at Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Cill Rialaig and her work has regularly been included in Eigse and Oireachtas.

Jonathan Hunter
View_Over_The_Curlew_91809C In his vibrant exploration of landscape, Hunter allows his paintings to develop organically and seemingly spontaneously. Born in England and educated in England, he also took an MA in painting at the National College of Art & Design in Dublin. He now lives and works in Dublin, where he has show recently at the Ashford Gallery, the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery and the Hillsboro Gallery. His work has been included in numerous RHA Annuals, and featured in galleries in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and London, and Malaga and Granada in Spain.

Eddie Kennedy
Little_Glory_oil_7FC073 Born in Tipperary. Kennedy graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with distinction and received his Masters in Fine arts at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. Having spent many years in New York painting, he now lives and works in Dublin and shows at the Hillsboro Gallery. Kennedy’s semi-abstract, almost naive rendering of the Irish countryside are fresh and alive.

Bernadette Kiely
Bog Cotton alt Born in Co. Tipperary, Kiely lives in Co. Kilkenny. Having attended Slade School of Fine Art in London, and the Waterford College of Art & Design, Kiely has show extesively at the Taylor Galleries in Dublin, and has had numerous solo shows throughout Ireland and in England and Denmark. Her work is in major public, corporate and private collections in Ireland and England. Kiely’s paintings convey a sense of fascination with and passion for the ephemeral, transient phenomenon in nature.

John Kingerlee
Lives and works on the Beara Penninsula. A self-educated artist who has followed his own path for more than 50 years, Kingerlee paints thickly sculptural interpretations of the wild landscape of sea, rocks and sky around his studio. He is one of a very small group of contemporary Irish artists whose work is collected in the international market. In 2007 and 2008 his work will be seen in several solo museum exhibitions arount the U.S.

Eilis O’Connell
Camarna Lives and works in Co. Cork. One of Ireland’s most important sculptors, for more than 25 year O’Connell has been creating large public commissions throughout Ireland and in England, Scotland, Wales, France, and Norway. Her domestic scale work has been featured in solo exhibitions in major galleries in Dublin, Cork and England. Her work often fuses organic form with constructed form, producing an unashamedly elegant and lyrical hybrid.

Colin O’Daly
A_Quiet_Place Lives and works in Dublin. Although largely self-taught, O’Daly has travelled extensively and studied painting in Italy, Germany and France. His translucent works are on the border between abstraction and representation, giving them a dream-like, enigmatic quality. Represented by the Hillsboro Gallery in Dublin, his work is included in a numer of important private and corporate collections around the world.

Helen O’Leary
conversations Born in Co. Wexford, lives in Pennsylvania and Co. Leitrim. Educated at Dublin’s National College of Art and Design and then the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, O’Leary has made her career primarily in the US where she has shown extensively in New York and Chicago. Her work explores how order comes from or descends into chaos and the underlying assumptions about how a painting is made.

Frances Ryan
Riverwalk2_001 Lives and works in Bangor, Northern Ireland. Educated at the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, Ryan paints landscape in a way that captures the organic texture of what she sees. She has enjoyed successful solo shows in Belfast and Dublin, and has shown at recent RHA annual shows as well as Iontas.

Leonard Sheil
made_in_austria_3 Lives and works in Co. Wicklow and in Austria. Sheil is interested in creating non-traditional painting where time, interactions of materials, and spontaneous marks create a work of depth and poetry. Educated at the Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, Sheil has shown extensively in Dublin, and has had several solo shows at the Catherine Hammond Gallery. In 2006 his work was featured at a solo show at the Baden Kunstverein in Austria.

Linda Shevlin
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Lives and works near Boyle, Co. Rosscommon. Educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Fine Art, Shevlin in interested in exploring issues of memory and landscape with her many layered, rich abstracts. Shevlin shows regularly at the Hallward in Dublin and her work is included in many important public and private collections.

Jacqueline Stanley
roaringwaterbay Stanley was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Art. She has lived and worked in Dublin since 1975. Known for her bold, incisive line, composition, and colour, Stanley shows us landscape with freshness and daring. Her work is in numerous public and private collections.

Hazel Walker
Elsewher_series Scottish born Walker lives in Co. Clare. Her haunting, empty landscapes reflect the Burren landscape in which she lives and isolation of contemporary life. Walker has enjoyed successful solo shows in Boston, Helsinki, Dublin, Sligo, and Edinburgh and has shown extensively in the US and Europe.

Rita Wobbe
wgarden3 Born in Germany, Wobbe has lived in the Burren, Co. Claire for nearly 20 years. Her sculptural abstract works explore the colours and textures of nature, either in the landscape around her or from her travels abroad. She has had numerous solo shows in West Ireland, at the RHA’s Ashford Gallery, and in the Netherlands and Germany. Her work is in major Irish public collections, and in private collections in Ireland, Europe and the US.