Art Cards Ireland

  • Moody Lacecap

    Moody Lacecap

    3.50

    Marie Phelan

    Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.

  • On The Causeway Card

    On The Causeway Card

    3.50

    Kevin McAleenan

    Kevin McAleenan was born in Banbridge, County Down. He studied art at the University of Ulster and graduated in 1985. Kevin’s paintings – ‘a response to a way of life slowly fading in a changing Ireland’ – focus on creating striking colour relationships, which drift towards the abstract. His images are distilled into strong, interlocking colour blocks.

  • Our Harbour

    Our Harbour

    3.50

    George Callaghan

    George Callaghan was born in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. He studied at Belfast College of Art and worked as a commercial artist, designer and art director at agencies including McCann Erickson and Leo Burnett. He describes the style of his art as ‘sophisticated naive’. He has been creative in many directions, including being a harp maker and player of the Celtic harp, and has lived in South Africa, Australia, Tasmania and France. His autobiography is titled The Last Minstrel.

  • Sowing Seeds

    Sowing Seeds

    3.50

    Lucy Doyle has painted and exhibited in Ireland for the past 30 years, having moved to her studio in Avoca, County Wicklow, soon after graduating from Sheffield Art College in the UK. She creates figurative and still life canvases richly painted in thick impasto oil paint. Her paintings explore the beauty and impact of colour. Lucy’s work can be found in public and private collections including those of Trinity College Dublin and the Office of Public Works.

  • Swell at Coney Island

    Swell at Coney Island

    3.50

    Neal Greig

    Belfast-born artist Neal Greig studied fine art to postgraduate level at Edinburgh College of Art. He has had one-man shows around Ireland and America. His work is in public and private collections and has drawn support from grant-awarding bodies including the Arts Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

    Neal has two studios: one in a barn next to his farmhouse on the edge of the Castle Leslie estate in Glaslough, County Monaghan, and the Bath House Studio on Coney Island in County Sligo. He paints in the open air and offers painting workshops at both studios.

    www.nealgreig.com

  • Swimming

    Swimming

    3.50

    ART CARDS IRELAND

  • The Broadwalk

    The Broadwalk

    3.50

    Irish art critic Aidan Dunne described Rod Coyne’s paintings as ‘boldly designed, decisive studies of the sea’. Taking into account the sky, land, light and weather, Rod says he aims to capture ‘the place, the day and the time…as accurately as I can in a single sitting’.

    Rod was born in Dun Laoghaire, and studied at Cork’s Crawford College of Art. After ten years painting in Dusseldorf, he came back to Ireland in 1999 and set up a studio/gallery in the Vale of Avoca in County Wicklow, where he paints and teaches.

    He has exhibited internationally and his work features in public and corporate collections. Celebrity owners of his work include Marian Keyes, Eddie Jordan and Daniel Day-Lewis.

  • Vintage Anemone

    Vintage Anemone

    3.50

    Marie Phelan was born in County Galway, has lived in the UK and now lives in County Wexford. She combines photography with painted backgrounds that draw out and enhance the characteristics of her home-grown flowers and plants. She has an Associate distinction from the Irish Photographic Federation, is a member of Wexford Camera Club and exhibits regularly in Wexford, for example during the opera festival and at the Wexford Arts Centre cafe. As an enthusiastic gardener she has her pick of subject material, and with an eye to future images, grows unusual and colourful plant varieties. Her painted backgrounds are achieved using watercolour and mixed media. While a background is ‘oozing and in a state of flux’, she judges the moment to place her flower or plant, and captures it with a macro lens.

  • Walking in a Winter Wonderland

    Walking in a Winter Wonderland

    3.50

    ART CARDS IRL

  • West Cork Landscape

    West Cork Landscape

    3.50

    Bridget Flinn attended the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and the Royal College of Art in London, where she studied natural history illustration. After graduating she worked as an illustrator.

    She is now a full time painter, working from her studio in Sandymount in Dublin. Her subjects include landscape, life drawing and still life. Her work has featured in Royal Hibernian Academy and Royal Ulster Academy exhibitions.

    www.bridgetflinn.ie

  • Winter Birch

    Winter Birch

    3.50

    Aidan Flanagan

  • Winter Blackbird

    Winter Blackbird

    3.50

    Ed Miliano