Shanon O’Bracken

Shanon O’Bracken is an artist and graphic designer based in Monaseed, County Wexford. Her mixed media works combine painting and printmaking. Shanon is inspired by landscape and the seasons - particularly hedgerows and field margins, and the plants and animals they contain.

Mary O’Connor

Mary O’Connor was born in Wexford. She studied visual communication and 3D design at DIT in Dublin, and painting at Chelsea College of Art and in New Zealand. She has lived in Belize and (for 11 years) Kazakhstan, a place of vast landscapes and infinite white winters; during her time there she published two books of photojournalism on central Asia. She paints in mixed media, often on a large scale. Her work features in private and public collections including those of the Office of Public Works and the Environmental Protection Agency. She is a member of Black Church Print Studio.

Ruth O’Donnell

Ruth O'Donnell is a printmaker and watercolourist specialising in still life subjects which reference art history, literary texts, and the fragile nature of material culture. She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin and of the Watercolour Society of Ireland. For the past 25 years she has been exhibiting regularly in solo and group exhibitions, as well as working on commissions in Ireland and internationally.

Yanny Petters

Yanny Petters is a botanical portraitist working exclusively from life (not photography). She paints in a variety of media including verre églomisé, or painting on glass. Yanny also creates ‘nature prints’ by applying water-based ink to a pressed plant or flower.

Marie Phelan

Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. Her painted backdrops are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.

Eithne Roberts

Eithne Roberts studied ceramics at Dublin Institute of Technology. Her first paintings, inspired by ‘the beautiful and quiet work of Giorgio Morandi’, were of small clay bowls she made, with attention paid to their shapes and surfaces. Her subjects have since expanded to include people, domestic objects, and birds.

Christina Jasmin Roser

Cork-based feltmaker Christina Jasmin Roser was born and brought up in Copenhagen, and moved to Ireland in 2007. She has learned from leading feltmakers all over Europe the many techniques that have transformed traditional felt-making into a sophisticated modern craft.

John Short

John Short lives in Dalkey, County Dublin. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art and took an MA at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. His many awards include the RCA Drawing Prize, the Berger Colour Prize, the President’s Award given by the Watercolour Society of Ireland and the Artist’s Prize awarded by the Royal Watercolour Society in London. His drawings have appeared in Vogue, Harpers & Queen, the Irish Times and the Observer. He is a frequent exhibitor in Ireland, the UK and internationally.

Holly Somerville

Holly Somerville has had sell-out exhibitions around Ireland. She has an MA in botany from Somerville College Oxford, and for some years was based in the herbarium of Trinity College’s botany department, drawing botanically correct illustrations to commission.

Stephen Taylor

Stephen Taylor is an Irish artist based in Dublin. He studied visual arts practice at IADT, and combines his work as an artist with working as part of the team at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Stephen’s paintings and drawings explore the strangeness of our optical experience, with ideas drawn from popular culture, memory, observation and imagination.