Angel Bruton has been painting for the past twenty years and in that time has developed her own unique style. A qualified architect and interior designer, her first love has always been painting, particularly in the medium of of watercolour and encompassing a wide and varied range of subject material. A purist by inclination Angel…
Having always loved painting, Lilian graduated from DLCAD in the mid 1990s. Her preferred medium is watercolour as she is attracted by the transparency and fleeting nature of the medium. While she has specialised in painting birds, vintage farm scenes etc, she is currently painting flower compositions. Lilian has received a number of awards for…
George studied at the National College of Art Dublin and Belfast. He served a 7-year apprenticeship in Stained Glass with his father G. Stephen Walsh in studios in Belfast and the United States. He works mainly in Stained Glass but has painted for several years, working in oils, watercolour and collage. He has exhibitied in…
Paul started painting with Brian McCarthy and soon developed an interest in Still Life, painted in a realistic manner. Over the years he has focused on composition and the effect of light, shade and how a detail can draw the eye into a picture and how the use of everyday objects can bring a picture…
Catherine received her diploma from Trinity College in 1992 in the history of European Painting specialising in impressionism. She also studied illustration at Dun Laoghaire school of art and completed drawing courses at NCAD. Catherine works mainly with oils and watercolours in an impressionistic style. The colours of nature in the form of flowers gardens,…
Yanny Petters trained as a sign writer and gilder with Michael Gemmell in the early 1980s. She returned to Ireland from London in 1993 and began to develop her work, focussed on a botanical theme. Since then Yanny has been painting studies of Irish wild plants. Her fascination with colour, form and detail and her interest in botanical art stems from her…
Brid was born in Sligo in 1941 and now lives in Malahide. Commencing painting in 1970, she studied at the Irish School of Landscape Painting (1976 – 1979), and at the National College (NCAD) course in life drawing and painting. She is a Founder Member of the European Institute of Watercolours, 1988 and is a…
Born in Dublin, Patrick Cahill has been working as a professional artist for over thirty years. He began his career as a graphic artist, but subsequently devoted himself exclusively to painting. Though watercolour was his first love, he now paints equally well in both watercolour and oil. While he is noted for his urbanscapes, Patrick…
Margo has been painting since she was quite young and attended many art classes. In her late teens she moved to Spain and continued painting. However when she later returned to Ireland, she took classes in ceramics and this lead to a fourteen year career in sculpting, in particular sculpting the human figure. However, she…
Tom Scott studied painting with Henry Healy RHA in the late seventies and met a group of students who were very committed to developing their painting. This group formed the Back Lane Painters. Originally there were twelve members in the group and a period each summer was spent painting, predominantly in Connemara. In addition, there were…