About the Artist

Ruskin Spear, student of Sir Walter Sickert, the late great Fred Bushe OBE and founder of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop taught me how to see, and consequently to understand form, shape, line and the power of abstraction.

A degree in Art History at The University of London further instilled a love and motivation for Art that sustains me to the present.

I paint in France on an annual basis and have exhibited in both Avignon and La Rochelle. Quite a part of my childhood was spent in the countryside and close to the sea in Co. Wexford so landscape and seascapes have been an abiding feature of my work. Living in Arklow, the harbour, boats and the beautiful afforested hinterland of Avoca and Co. Wicklow have been a constant source of inspiration.

I am a member of The Watercolour Society of Ireland, an all Ireland award winner, a professionally trained Painter, Sculptor, Art historian and Art, English and Drama Teacher of many years experience. I have had many prestigious commissions over the years and my work is in a number of private and public collections in Ireland and abroad. I have exhibited in numerous Dublin group exhibitions and various other national projects. I have had a number of solo exhibitions my last one was in Glastonbury in ’09.

I spent many years teaching Art in England and Ireland, rearing my children and coping with other complications that life visits on one so that it is now with great pleasure that I am working as a full time artist again.

For personalised hand painted baby names, visit my daughter's website www.thatsmyname.ie.