Painter

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Mary Hickey is an Irish artist who received her B.A.(Hons) in Fine Art and Painting from the Limerick School of Art and Design. She works with watercolours, acrylics, and oil paints. Her portfolio is very diverse and contains high…

Belfast-born Janice Lightowler has established herself as a professional artist for the past 25 years.  She paints from life, every day scenes with a wide variety of subjects. She has many fine pencil drawings, although primarily works in…

Eoin Francis McCormack is a contemporary artist born in Co. Westmeath. He holds two honours degrees, a BA from Limerick School of Art and Design, and an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art. He primarily creates large-scale abstract triptychs.…

News This week we've got news of the most expensive painting ever sold, beating the 2011 record of $259m for a Cezanne painting. Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin is said to have been sold to a museum in Qatar for…

Patrick Hall was born near to both Birr Co. Offaly and Roscrea, Co. Tipperary in 1935 and he says that he made the decision to become a painter aged 22. He saw some paintings, particularly a painting by Georges Rouault in Dublin when he was…

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or Leonardo da Vinci as he is better known, or the blue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle as he is even better known, or Leonardo DiCaprio as he is perhaps best but certainly most-incorrectly known, was good.…