Aurélie

Aurélie moved to Ireland in 2006, from Paris suburb Le Pecq in the Versailles region. She likes to work in series and has documented with pen and coloured pencils many of Dublin’s landmark buildings.

Jean Bardon

Printmaker Jean Bardon is a graduate of Dun Laoghaire Insitute of Art, Design and Technology. While living in Amsterdam during the 1970s she took an etching class at De Werkschuit, at that time based on one of Amsterdam’s many houseboats. She was instantly fascinated by the techniques of etching, which remain almost unchanged since medieval times.

Walter Bernardini

Walter Bernardini grew up in Glasgow. He started work there at the age of 15 and made a name for himself in advertising, winning many awards. He moved to Dublin during the 1960s, forming graphic design consultancy BB&G as its chief designer and illustrator. On retiring he focused on art. His work has been shown at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy and is held in private and public collections.

George Callaghan

George Callaghan was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He studied at Belfast College of Art and worked as a commercial artist, designer and art director at agencies including McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett. He describes the style of his art as ‘sophisticated naive’. He has been creative in many directions, including being a harp maker and player of the Celtic harp, and has lived in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania and France. His autobiography is titled The Last Minstrel.

Caroline Canning

Caroline Canning started but didn’t finish a fine art course, opting out because of ’too much thinking and not enough painting’. She works in a huge, light-filled room (half kitchen, half studio) at her home in Dublin. She works mainly in oils and acrylics, but it’s her daily drawing notebooks that are the core of her practice, feeding into everything. She spends several months a year in Connemara.

Rod Coyne

Rod Coyne graduated from Dun Laoghaire and Crawford Colleges of Art before moving to Düsseldorf in 1990. After a decade working in his Rhine-side studio, he returned to paint the Irish landscape en plein air. Irish fiction laureate Sebastian Barry said of Rod’s work: ‘His images could be straight out of my own memory, very strange and wonderful, the red lightship, the Wicklow high valley, the angle glimpsed’.

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 at So Fine Art in Dublin. She has exhibited at Dublin’s Royal Hibernian Academy and London’s Royal Academy. Her many awards include a Fulbright scholarship to study lithography.

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.

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.

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.