About the Artists

Patricia Burns
Beginning Patricia Burns is partic­u­larly inter­ested in the hidden narrative in over­looked or chan­ging parts of the build land­scape. She has enjoyed resid­en­cies at both Ballinglen Arts Foundation and Cill Rialaig. Her work has been shown at Eigse 2000 in Carlow, and featured in solo shows at the RHA’s Ashford Gallery, Droichead Arts Centre, South Tipperary Art Centre, the Courthouse Arts Centre in Co. Wicklow, and the Catherine Hammond Gallery. Lives and works in Cork. Educated at the Dublin Institute of Technology in Fine Art and also at the Crawford College of Art & Design.

Mary Canty
Scene_No_2 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
Floating_World_14 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. 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. S

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. 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 exten­is­vely in Dublin. In 2006 his work will be 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.