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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Browse our previous artists and their work.
James English RHA
March/ April 2014
James English was born in Naul, County Dublin in 1946. He is widely recognised for his outstanding still-life painting.
Jim Kilgarriff
May/ June 2014
Jim Kilarriff, Rush artist who is constantly inspired by the beautiful coastline of north Fingal.
Maura Taylor Buckley
July/ August 2014
Maura Taylor Buckley is a Dublin painter and draughts-person who studied at the National College of Art and Design. She often exhibits with the RHA.
Dervla O’Flaherty
September/ October 2014
​Dervla O'Flaherty is an Irish artist working mainly with paint and wood. Her work explores links between ideas of identity, place and the unknown.
Graphic Studio Gallery – Exhibition of Prints
November/ December 2014
Graphic Studio Dublin & Graphic Studio Gallery were established to provide studios, promote printmaking and to exhibit and sell fine art prints.
Barbara Craig
January/ February 2015
Artist Barbara Craig from Co. Down is known for her striking landscape work; bold paintings often influenced by the weather, of scenes captured in her mind’s eye whilst outside in nature.
Thomas Ryan RHA
March/ April 2015
Thomas Ryan (16 September 1929 – 15 September 2021) was an Irish artist, designer and medallist.
Stephen Nolan
May/ June 2015
Influenced by the Expressionist movements of the pre-war period and the aesthetic of European Fauvism, he employs similar bold colour and expressive form to explore ideas such as life and death, memory and history, architecture and society.
Phil McMenemy, Morgan Paterson & Ted Leeming
July/ August 2015
The natural world forms the basis of inspiration for many of their collaborative images and projects, with dreamlike depictions of land and sea.
Dave West
September/ October 2015
Dave West's paintings cover a broad range from meticulous still life paintings, loose expressive pastel drawings to charcoal and Plein Air (outdoor) painting.
Henry McGrane
November/ December 2015
Henry McGrane is an artist inspired by nature. This is reflected by his many scenes of rural life.
Mary Breach
January/ February 2016
Mary Breach is a Postwar & Contemporary painter who is inspired by land and sea formations.
Local Artists Exhibition
March 2016
Featuring works by local artists Dinah Berrill, Paddy Donaghy, Noel Manning & Siobhan Sweetman.
Thomas Breezing
April/ May 2016
Thomas Brezing is a Dublin based multi-disciplinary artist. His choice and use of materials is often intuitive, the product of experiment and improvisation.
Padráig Lynch
June/ July 2016
Padraig Lynch was born in Ardee, Co. Louth. He worked primarily in still life and landscape and exhibited with the RHA and throughout Ireland.
Rebecca Bradley
August/ September 2016
Rebecca Bradley is a Cork based artist. Working mainly in oils, her painting practice explores ideas about landscape, abstraction and place-hood.
Deirdre McCroy
September/ October 2016
Deirdre McCroy specialises in enamelling and printmaking and takes inspiration from patterns in nature, organic material growing and decaying and movement in shapes and colour.
Eimear Tynan
November/ December 2016
Eimear Tynan is a professional Visual Artist originally from Lusk, Co. Dublin. Eimear's works are inspired in part by reimaginings of the mystical landscapes of Renaissance paintings.
Aidan Flanagan
January/ February 2017
Aidan Flanagan is a self-taught painter/printmaker who specialises in creating paintings and original limited edition prints, mainly of the landscape of Ireland.
Leonard Sexton
March April 2017
Leonard Sexton employs emotionally-charged brushstrokes in his oil paintings to depict the sea, the city and the figure. His paintings take inspiration from the poetic quality of light he sees in the world around him and the joy and the pathos he feels about our shared human experience.
Myra Jago
August/ September 2017
Myra is a conceptual painter working in oils and making finely detailed works on canvas in her studio in Wicklow, Ireland.
Tina Brooks
October/ November 2017
Tina Brooks is a contemporary landscape painter working oils and acrylics and is based in Co. Sligo.
Sarah Gallagher
December/ January 2017/2018
Sarah Gallagher is an abstract contemporary painter, based between Ireland and Belgium.
Alison O’Grady
January/ February 2018
Alison O’Grady is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and my main passion is drawing and illustration.
Yanny Petter
March April 2018
Yanny Petters is a botanical portraitist from County Wicklow. She works exclusively from life, either in her studio in Glendarragh, Newtownmountkennedy, or en plein air among her subjects' habitats.
Judy Carroll Deeley
August/ September 2018
Judy Carroll Deeley is a professional artist. Her practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, installation, assemblages, and collaborative projects.
Terry Fitzgerald
October/ November 2018
Terry Fitzgerald is a self-taught watercolour artist based in Co. Louth. Through her watercolours, she tells stories of the hidden beauty of everyday objects and simple expressions of life.
Jim Kilgarriff
December/ January 2018
Jim Kilarriff, Rush artist who is constantly inspired by the beautiful coastline of north Fingal.
John Cullen
February/ March 2019
​John Cullen is an Irish artist whose paintings have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally. One of the recurring themes in his art is the constant breaking down of form, then rebuilding or re-painting. Thereby, the work itself becomes a record of failure and improvement.
Sorca O’Farrell
April/ May 2019
Sorca O'Farrell is an award winning landscape artist from Howth, Co. Dublin who's works use a mixture of charcoal & Indian ink.
Catherina Hearne
June/ July 2019
Based in Cork city, Catherina Hearnes' artistic practice encompasses sculpture, installation and painting.
Raphael Hynes
August/ September 2019
Raphael Hynes' works are concentrated on painting still-life objects from life. He uses simple mathematical ratios to help place the objects within the picture.
Lorraine Sherry
October/ November 2019
Lorraine Sherry is an Irish painter based in the seaside village of Loughshinny, Co. Dublin who specialises in Plein Air and still life painting with oils.
Susan Cairns
December/ January 2020
Susan Cairns takes the old, broken, unwanted and often forgotten everyday objects and transforms them into something unique and wonderful.
Margo Banks
February/ March 2020
Margo Banks is an assured, accomplished draughtsperson, painter and sculptor. Through her big and boisterous drawings, Margo tells the many stories of her mother; her childhood, her land and its rich folklore tales.
Dave West
December/ January 2021
​Dave's practice covers a broad range from meticulous still life paintings, loose expressive pastel drawings to charcoal and Plein Air (outdoor) painting.
Bernadette Madden
February/ March 2021
Born in Dublin, Ireland, Bernadette Madden works mainly in batik (wax resist on linen) and also makes screenprints on paper.
Lelia Henry
April/ May 2021
Lelia Henry is an artist based in Westmeath, working mainly in charcoal and graphite. Her concern for the loss of the natural world drives her to create meticulously rendered drawings, through which, she asks us to re examine our connection to the ordinary, everyday aspects of our immediate environment.
Paul MacCormaic
April/ May 2021
Paul MacCormaic is a contemporary artist based in Dublin, Ireland, whose main source of concepts is everyday life.
Brian Gallagher
June/ July 2021
Brian Gallagher is an award winning Illustrator and his work has appeared in all areas of design including magazines, newspapers, book publishing, advertising & museum design.
Isabella Gaborit
August/ September 2021
Isabella Gaborit is a former member of Artspace in Galway and G126. In her work , she explores themes of complexity, memory, and sensory experience enhanced through layers of photography, beeswax and paint.
Cormac Dennis
October/ November 2021
Cormac Dennis is an artist from Rush, Co Dublin who seeks to capture the expansive ever changing skies and a coastline that is constantly battered by the forces of nature.
Beatrice O’Connell
December/ January 2021/2022
Beatrice O’Connell focuses on the relationship between nature and culture in her multidisciplinary practice that encompasses painting, drawing, animation and video.
Eileen McNulty
February/ March 2022
Eileen McNulty is an Irish Artist inspired by the Island of Ireland. Her signature style brings the landscape alive with unique contemporary Textile Art.
Nicola Lynch Morrin
April/ May 2022
Nicola Lynch Morrin is an award winning painter and printmaker. Her flower portraits, mysterious and evocative, push the boundaries of botanical art.
Peadar McDaid
June/ July 2022
Peadar McDaid is inspired by the everyday life that revolves around him, people, nature, the environment and the ever changing landscape of his home county of Donegal and elsewhere, throughout the province of Ulster.
Uisce A. Jakubczyk
August/ September 2022
Uisce is a weaver, a self-taught embroiderer and fibre arts teacher. The inspiration for each piece comes from the artist’s everyday life and varies from physical observation, psychological sensation and feelings, transformed into visual art works.
Derval Freeman
October/ January 2022/ 2023
Derval Freeman's painting style is abstract expressionism and her work is inspired by nature, cosmic events and the cycle of life in every living thing.
Denise Hussey
February/ March 2023
Denise Hussey is an Irish artist from Dublin. Her work is inspired by that which surrounds her during a period of work and so one might conclude that this accounts for the dynamic and versatile aspects of her art.
Josephine Geaney
April/ May 2023
Josephine Geaney is a visual artist working mainly with the medium of cold wax and oil paint using many tools to apply the paint such as squeegees ,brushes, household utensils and her own personal favourite her hands which she feels gives a looser, fluid and immediate application to the surface.
Local Artists Exhibition
June 2023
The Boathouse Painters are a Co-Op Arts Group based in Fingal, Co. Dublin. They originally formed in 2018 as a Plein-Air painting group in response to the need for a creative outlet for the many artists living and
working in the Fingal Area.
Kayla Martell
July 2023
Kayla loves bringing to life the spirit and beauty of every day things on the canvas and each painting is a little conversation between her and those special characters. Kayla’s paintings focus on maintaining dynamic and expressive brushwork.
Vaida Varnagiene
October 2023
Vaida Varnagiene is a visual artist who uses a wide range of mediums to explore themes of identity, belonging and memory. To bring her ideas to life, she combines fine art printmaking, painting, sculpture, and photography. Vaida expresses deep emotions and ideas in different ways through the use of multiple different mediums and techniques.
Clare O'Connor
December 2023
Clare O’Connor is an award winning multidisciplinary Artist & Designer. Her playful Intuitive paintings use a dynamic interplay of organic & organized forms, complimentary & contrasting colour, stripes & mark making.
Stephen Wylie
February 2024
Stephen Wylie's exhibition 'Timeworn' at the Séamus Ennis Arts Center. A body of works exploring impermanence and transition. Stephen is inspired by quiet rural spaces, small landmarks and seams of wildernes. Taking the viewer through field and shore, he defines an atmosphere of the overlooked and changing places of Fingal.
Ken Browne
April 2024
Ken Browne is a painter who lives and works in Kells Co,Meath Ireland. His paintings are meticulously crafted abstract pieces that are influenced by an array of landscapes throughout Ireland. These are not specific landscapes but a synthesis of natural scenes that the artist has beheld in the past and which have left an indelible mark on his imagination.
Margo Banks
May 2024
Margo’s work in both drawing and paining is greatly influenced by a spiritual link to ‘her mother’s place’, as expressed in her landscape work and her drawings and paintings of wild animals. Margo in particular uses the hare and the crow in her drawings and paintings in a semi-abstract motif, linking to the wild Kerry landscape. Margo has exhibited widely across Ireland and her paintings can be found in homes throughout Europe.
