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.

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.

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.

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.

Anne Heffernan

Anne Heffernan studied printed textiles and art history at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin. She works mainly in collage and has designed shop windows for Macy’s New York, textiles for home and fashion, and printed stationery. She has also created illustrations for books and magazines. Anne is inspired by her love of history and all things literary, especially bookshops. anneheffernan.com

Sonya Kinch

Sonya Kinch graduated from Ireland’s National College of Art and Design. Working in a variety of media including acrylics, watercolours and ceramics, she is inspired by the Irish coast and woodlands, shifting tides and changing light. Her work is characterised by vibrant colour and expressive brushstrokes. sonyakinchirishart.com

Maura Lynch

Maura Lynch grew up among fields and woodlands in Holywood, lectured in Belfast in art and 3D design for many years, and now practices full-time in print, ceramics and bronze. To make cyanotypes, Maura places specimens onto paper coated with a photosensitive solution and lets the action of light create a silhouette effect. Picking flowers in the early morning, drawing them into an arrangement, exposing them to light and washing and drying the paper ‘feels rhythmic and connected to the natural world’, she says. Several of Maura’s large-scale cyanotypes have been bought by the Arts Council.

Nicola Lynch Morrin

Nicola Lynch Morrin lives and works in County Kildare. A member of Graphic Studio Dublin, the Water Colour Society of Ireland, the Irish Society of Botanical Artists, the Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, and Visual Artists Ireland, she has won many awards and has exhibited across Ireland, Europe and the USA. Her flower portraits, mysterious and evocative, push the boundaries of botanical art.

Niamh Mac Gowan

Niamh Mac Gowan developed her printmaking skills while studying at Dublin’s National College of Art and Design. Her etchings and aquatints are intricate and small in scale, featuring landscapes and streetscapes of Ireland and England. She is a member of Graphic Studio Dublin.

Bernadette Madden

Dublin-born Bernadette Madden studied painting at Ireland’s National College of Art and Design (NCAD). She works mainly in batik (wax resist on linen) and screenprint on paper.