Gráinne Cuffe
Gráinne Cuffe was born in Dublin and lives in Wicklow. She graduated in fine art from IADT Dun Laoghaire, and took a postgraduate degree in etching at Central St Martin’s in London. Gráinne is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and her etchings are regularly on show in the Graphic Studio Gallery and The Printmakers’ Gallery in Dublin. She has also exhibited at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy and London’s Royal Academy. Her many awards include a Fulbright scholarship to study lithography.
Oct
Lucy Doyle
Lucy Doyle has painted and exhibited in Ireland for the past 30 years, having moved to her studio in Avoca, County Wicklow, soon after graduating from Sheffield Art College in the UK. She creates figurative and still life canvases richly painted in thick impasto oil paint. Her paintings explore the beauty and impact of colour. Lucy’s work can be found in public and private collections including those of Trinity College Dublin and the Office of Public Works.
Sep
Susan Early
Susan Early is an architect and printmaker based at Graphic Studio Dublin. She works in etching, drypoint and relief print. Her fine-art prints record urban and coastal landscapes. The original prints are etched onto a copper plate or carved into lino or wood, and printed by hand on traditional printing presses.
Jun
Tatyana Feeney
Tatyana Feeney studied art history in North Carolina and illustration in Wales. She now lives and works in County Meath, developing illustrations and story ideas for children’s books. Her work has been exhibited in Dublin, Belfast, Vienna, Bologna, London and The Hague. She has been nominated for awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal and Waterstones’ Children’s Book Prize. Her illustrations are mostly monoprints, sometimes with watercolour or collage added.
Apr
Brian Fitzgerald
Brian Fitzgerald is a graduate of Ireland’s National College of Art and Design. His illustrations have graced vans, newspapers, educational books, florist’s wrapping paper, packaging and picture books.
Mar
Aidan Flanagan
Aidan Flanagan is a Meath-based artist/printmaker specialising in original limited-edition landscape prints, created using screenprint, carborundum, photopolymer, intaglio and drypoint techniques. His work often features strongly contrasting light and shade effects.
Feb
Bridget Flinn
Bridget Flinn attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied natural history illustration. After graduating she worked as an illustrator. She is now a full time painter, working from her studio in Sandymount in Dublin. Her subjects include landscape, life drawing and still life. Her work has featured in Royal Hibernian Academy and Royal Ulster Academy exhibitions.
Feb
Brian Gallagher
Artist and illustrator Brian Gallagher studied illustration at Bristol art college, developing skills in a variety of techniques including woodcut, linocut and scraperboard. He is based in Dublin, and uses a range of media from computers to traditional paint on canvas.
Feb
Neal Greig
Belfast-born Neal Greig is an associate of the Royal Ulster Academy. He studied fine art to postgraduate level at Edinburgh College of Art. He has had one-man shows around Ireland, in the UK and in America. His work is in public and private collections and has drawn support from grant-awarding bodies including the Arts Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
Jan
Marie Hanlon
Marie Hanlon was born in Kilkenny and has lived and worked in Dublin for many years. Having studied English and Art History at University College Dublin, she worked for a time as a teacher before embarking on a career as an artist. Her paintings deal with forms in space and are characterised by finely balanced tonal relationships.
Jan