Greeting Cards

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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