Mike Absalom

Mike Absalom was born in Quebec, Canada and studied at the University of Montreal. He has been a successful musician appearing on the The Old Grey Whistle Test and played the Royal Albert Hall. He set ....  continue >> 

Louise Allen

Louise Allen focuses on the relationship to the land and water that surround us and the events that affect us and our environment at a human level. The paintings reflect moments of stillness and unkno ....  continue >> 

Chris Atkins

Artist Statement

My artistic interests are mainly landscape based. I read the landscape as an unsentimental vibrant, and sometimes sinister and dangerous place to inhabit. Changes are brou ....  continue >> 

Steven Aylin

Born in Yorkshire, England, Steven Aylin is an MA graduate of the UCE, Birmingham and has been living and working in Kilkenny, Ireland for some time. His work forms part of many important public and p ....  continue >> 

Catherine Barron

Catherine Barron's contemplative paintings reflect her interest in the behaviour of light and texture in the built environment and our personal perspective and perception of form. She is also interest ....  continue >> 

Eamon Colman

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Odette Farrell

'' I am a painter of huma ....  continue >>  Kate Hennessy Kate Hennessy graduated from the Limerick school of art. Her work benefits from and is inspired by Irish, Mediterranean and North African themes sketched on working trips. The richness of colour and d ....  continue >>  John Lauder Davies John Lauder Davies works almost exclusively in watercolour, bringing to the medium a vibrancy and saturation of colour not usually associated with the format. His works explore movement and light in a ....  continue >>  Martina O'Brien Martina O'Brien studied in NCAD and Dun Laoghhaire College of Art and Design. Inspiration and lasting impressions gathered on her travels influenced her deeply and facilitated the development of her ....  continue >>  Catherine O'Leanachain My present work deals with the dual nature of the West of Ireland Landscape and the magical quality of its mystical islands, more specifically with the intimacy of the land, field, rocks, sheltering t ....  continue >>  Roger O'Reilly Roger O'Reilly studied Art at COMAD, Dublin and pursued a career as a cartoonist and Illustrator, His work has received numerous awards including the IGI Illustrator of the year 2004, and appeared in  ....  continue >>  Alan Raggett Alan Raggett confines himself to a palette of ultramarine, burnt sienna, burnt umber, titanium white and yellow ochre. Manipulating this limited colour range, he produces abstract figurative canvasses ....  continue >>  Krisztina Rozanich Krisztina Rozanich, a Hungarian painter, lived and worked in Texas before moving to Dublin in 2001. Highly influenced both by the vastness and emptiness of West Texas and the meditative aspects of Eas ....  continue >>  Aisling Smyth Aisling Smyth studied at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, where she qualified with a distinction in both her major study, painting, and also in art history. She won the Derek Hill foundat ....  continue >>  Stephen Vaughen Stephen Vaughan   The act of making is a fundamental, indeed primary, human activity. Artistic endeavour as part of that activity functions to interpret, illuminate and ....  continue >>  website development by Intrade home artists exhibitions gallery news links contact © Blackbird Gallery - All rights reserved