Jay Murphy

Artist: Jay Murphy
Title: Jimena de la Frontera
Medium: Oil on canvas board

Born in Dublin. Studied fine art at Dunlaoghaire School of Art and Central School, London.

Artists' Groups and Organisations:
Founder Member of "Fior Uisce" in Dublin and later the "Western Artists".Both independent artists organisations put on exhibitions annually for a number of years.
Member of the "Island Connection" group of painters and sculptors which arranged exhibitions on various European islands, from Inishbofin and Inishmore to Malta and Tenerife etc..
Member of AKIN, a group of five artists, an offshoot of Westerns Artists. Chairperson of AKIN in 88/89.
2002 AKIN conducted a national tour exhibiting in ten arts centres throughout Ireland.
2003 AKIN major exhibition for which the group received a Galway County Council Arts Award.

For more information see www.jaymurphy.ie

Janet Vinnell

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Artist: Janet Vinnell
Title: Claddagh
Medium: Pastel

Janet was raised and educated in Dublin, later moving to Ireland’s west coast where she established a home for her young family in Galway City and where she has lived for the past 25 years.

She began painting in oils shortly after arriving in Galway but soon found a liking for the somewhat unfashionable medium of pastel. She remains mainly self taught as an artist, although meeting fellow pastel artist, Victor Richardson, inspired Janet with a renewed entheusiasm for this wonderful medium which is as ancient as the hills. This unleashed a passion for pastels which continues today.

Combining her drawing skills with vibrant chalk pastel colours, she creates sumptuously rich and instantly accessible paintings of Galway’s landscapes, waterways and gardens. Her ability to bring water and reflected skies to life is masterful and her use of a light and painterly style is ideally suited to the rapidly changing scenes and weather patterns in the west.

For more information see http://www.janetvinnell.com/

Val Wright

Artist: Val Wright
Title: Cruising Home
Medium: Acrylic

Val is a native of Galway, living in Renmore with her husband Len. She has a grown up family who have encouraged her all the way in her love of art.
She has been painting for over thirty eight years. She has studied Fine Art and Design in G.M.I.T. and has completed many workshops with various teachers over the years.
Acrylics and oils would be her main interest, but she has also worked in pastels and mixed media.
She has exhibited many times over the years and has held two solo exhibitions in 2006 and 2009. She has also worked on commissions for the private sector.

Mark Kelly

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Artist: Mark Kelly
Title: Conflict

David Archer

Artist: David Archer

Title: Sketches of Spain

Medium: Oil on canvas

Kathleen Furey

Artist: Kathleen Furey
Title: In Connemara 2
Medium: Mixed media on board

Kathleen Furey is from Galway. She studied painting at the Limerick School of Art and Design, graduating in 1984. She is a founder member of Artspace Studios, Galway’s longest established Artists Collective.
She works with a combination of mixed media including acrylic, gouache, printing inks, crayon and coloured pencil on board and paper.
The images, symbols, shapes and forms in the work are unified by colour, effects of light and atmosphere. Sometimes there is a narrative content, sometimes a presentation of a moment in time.
Kathleen’s work has been exhibited both at home and abroad and is included in public and private collections.
For more information view www.artspacegalway.com

Ger Sweeney

Artist: Ger Sweeney
Title: Enigma Red

In recent years Ger Sweeney's paintings have focused on developing a synthesis of abstract and figurative referents. His balancing of the formal and compositional with elements of colour and light culminating in his "Terrain" series 05/06. From his smaller object like works to the epic scale pieces his practice is informed by a century of evolution and change in the language of painting. Openly engaging with the viewer and inviting interpretation, his work reflects the more progressive concerns of painting today. In a comprehensive new body of work "Notes from a silence" the artist expands on earlier themes, broadens his frame of reference and introduces tactile and painterly aspects, heralding a new phase in his ongoing dialogue with the potential and possibilities of art through the medium of painting.

Ger Sweeney currently lives and works in Co.Mayo, Ireland.

Pauline Garavan

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Artist: Pauline Garavan
Title: Expansum
Medium: Charcoal on Paper

Pauline Garavan is a Fine Art graduate of G.M.I.T., and Sligo I.T. She has been exhibiting regularly in the RHA Annual Show, and last year participated in Belfast's Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition. Her work featured in the 2008 Taispeantas Ealaine an Oireachtais in Cork. In 2009 her work formed part of an exhibition on the theme of the sea in the Kenny Gallery, Galway to coincide with the Volvo Ocean Race. Garavan has exhibited widely in group shows. Her solo show '...the sea, the sea...' was held in the Custom House Studios in Westport in late 2007, while her solo exhibition ' Blazing Roofs' is currently showing in the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (see http://www.thedock.ie/). Her work is found in private collections in both the US and in Ireland. She lives in County Mayo.

Jim Kavanagh

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Artist: Jim Kavanagh
Title: Untitled
Medium: Oil on paper

Jim was born in London to Irish parents. After graduating with a degree in Fine Art he lectured at third level for a number of years before becoming a fulltime artist. Jim has had numerous successful shows in both the UK and Ireland, as well as having his work in private collections around the world, and in several finance companies in London where he was commissioned to do large scale canvases. In 2002 he moved to the West to live and work, evidence of which is becoming increasingly visible in his work. The Irish land and skyscapes have become an increasing source of inspiration for Jim’s work, and this is particularly evident in his recent series of largescale bog paintings.

Jim’s paintings are formed by using the techniques (scumbling, glazing) of the Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Turner. These skills are fused with the more contemporary influences of Rothko and Pollock, which he utilises to create his own responses to skyscapes and landscapes - creating timeless images, and invoking a sense of place, both real and imaginary.

For more information visit www.jimkavanagh.com

Denise Hogan

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Artist: Denise Hogan
Title: Secret Place

Denise Hogan is one of Ireland's emerging artistic talents. A graduate of G.M.I.T. (Galway) in Art and Design has exhibited her work extensively both locally and nationally with works in many private international collections and has received much critical acclaim to date. Denise is a fine art printmaker and painter presenting a mixture of paintings and monoprints. Her work is mainly figurative, exploring the animus and anima within, the relationship between the physical and etherial and the sensuality of the relationship between materials and artist.
Inspired by music and dance, Hogan produces colourful and enigmatic works of art. She believes that the materials she chooses to use in her work dictate its flow. The artist sets up an intimate dialogue with her materials and work surfaces to create subtle variations on the themes of spiritualiy, identity and sexuality. It is though we are offered a window into a moment of privacy and pure physical being. That private moment when soul and self are allowed to fall into each other. This artist embraces and celebrates the existance of the creative energy that surrounds us continuously.
For more information visit http://www.denisehogandesign.com/

Rosemary Carr

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Artist: Rosemary Carr
Title: Amber in the bog and blue in the lake, Roundstone bog
Medium: Oil on panel

Rosemary Carr lives and works in Connemara, painting oil with a palette knife outside only finishing work in the studio. Rosemary is a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters since 1989.

Pat O'Connor

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Artist: Pat O'Connor
Title: Doon Lake, Co. Clare
Medium: Limited edition photograph

For more information visit http://www.patoconnor.org/

Kenneth Webb ATD (Hons), RWA, FRSA

Artist: Kenneth Webb
Title: Bog Pools, Autumn
Medium: Oil and acrylic

Internationally known artist Kenneth Webb is represented in Ireland by the Kenny Gallery, Galway, the James Gallery, Dublin and in the UK by W.H.Patterson, Mayfair, London. In 1953 he was appointed Head of the Painting School, Ulster College of Art. In 1957 he founded the Irish School of Landscape Painting and has since lectured for Queen's University Belfast, and in the Tate Gallery, and National Gallery, London. Publications include "Kenneth Webb" (1974) Shenval Press, London, and "Webb, a Profile" by Thomas Kenny (1990), also Kenneth Webb - A Life in Colour (2003 Antique Collectors Club).

For more information visit www.irishschooloflandscapepainting.com

Joan Webb

Artist: Joan Webb
Title: Summertime, Roundstone Bog
Medium: Watercolour

Joan Webb BA exhibits at Kenny Gallery, Galway, Wexford Festival, Alan Gallery, R.W.S London, Purple Onion Gallery.

Margaret Irwin

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Artist: Margaret Irwin
Title: Talking Ruins Inishlacken
Medium: Charcoal Drawing

Born in India of Irish parents, Margaret returned to Ireland at the age of 9. Her education led her to Trinity College, Dublin, where she studied Modern Languages and Literature, followed by the History of European Painting. Margaret then chose to train as a painter in the studio of Andre L'hote, Paris, over a three year period. She then returned to Dublin and exhibited regularly in the major exhibitions of the time such as Living Art and the Oireachtas exhibitions. In 2008 Margaret received a "Lifetime Achievement Award", Galway Co. Council Arts Awards.

For more information visit http://www.margaretirwin.net/

Joe Boske

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Artist: Joe Boske
Title: Zeus Faber
Medium: Limited edition print

Joe Boske is a Galway-based artist and musician, originally from Wolfsburg, Germany. He has been in Ireland since 1969 and is best known for his distinctive Galway Arts Festival posters and his album cover designs, for groups such as De Dannan and the Saw Doctors. In 2005, he staged a solo retrospective of 40 years' work in Haus Rhode, a cultural centre owned by car makers Volkswagen in his home town of Wolfsburg.

Grace O'Sullivan

Artist: Grace O'Sullivan
Title: Elle Toro
Medium: Oil on board

Grace O'Sullivan is a visual artist living in Co. Clare. Her art work involves mainly oil painting and photography. Her main areas of interest are gender representation and spirituality, but she is fascinated by signs and symbolism of all kinds, myths, the femme fatale, masks and illusion, flying dreams, mysticism and typography.

Education:
BA (hons) Visual Communication, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
MA (by research) Media & Communication Studies, MaryImmaculate College/University of Limerick, Ireland.

For more information visit www.graceosullivan.com

Harriet Leander

Artist: Harriet Leander
Title: Owls
Medium: Oil and ink on canvas

Harriet Leander was born in Helsinki, Finland attended art college in Stockholm, Sweden and now lives in Galway. Her work has been exhibited at the Rory Mitchell Gallery, Oslo, the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Galleria Dix, Helsinki and the Galway City Museum in the last year.

Sara Susan McNeill

Artist: Sara Susan McNeill
Title: Off to Market Lough Inagh
Medium: Oil

Sara McNeill was born in Belfast and educated at Battle Abbey & Milfield School, Somerset. She obtained a Diploma of Art in 1974 . Post Graduate study with Kenneth Webb and The Irish School of Landscape Painting. Elected Fellow , Irish School of Landscape Painting in 1975, and Elected Member of the Ulster Society of Women Artists in 1977, and was Treasurer of U.S.W.A., 1989-1999, and Vice President from 2000 until 2003.
For more information visit www.saramcneill.com

Sean Cotter

Artist: Sean Cotter
Title: Black Sun
Medium: Mixed media

"Landscape works as a metaphor for life and its dramas, whether in turmoil or at peace. Wide open spaces can be shut down by a few well placed lines and so emulate the constraints of the modern world or a persons desire to contain and control their own immediate emotional environment. Blurred boundaries between areas of light and dark recall the sometimes difficult choices that are neither right nor wrong. While history, whether the viewers or the images, impacts on every work it is its own aesthetic that carries it off in the end and it is the exploration of my medium that keeps me behind my studio door. "
For more information visit www.seancotter.com

Joan Hogan

Artist: Joan Hogan
Title: Untitled
Medium: Oil on canvas

Joan Hogan, visual artist, is a graduate of GMIT. Her paintings are intensely physical with vibrant energy in the work. She challenges the viewer not only to look at the painting but, to step beyond the mere image into a world that appears to hang between the intervals of time and space. Her work reflects the Artist's own journey sublimated through memory and imagination, resulting in work that touches the soul of the viewer.