May 31st – June 3rd, 2013
Mike
Ahern
Mary Pat O'Sullivan
Mary Pat O'Sullivan is originally from Dublin. For the past seventeen years she has lived in Dooks, near Glenbeigh, Co.Kerry. She paints in several different media, at her studio mostly, which is situated beside her home.
She continues to sell many paintings, both at home, and internationally, while also attending to a steady stream of commissions.
She considers it a privilege, and is deeply grateful, to be living in Kerry, surrounded as she is by such diverse beauty and inspiration - whatever the weather!
My name is Mike Ahern
I'm a Kerry man who studied Fine Art at Cluain Mhuire, Galway a sub campus of G.M.I.T.
I graduated in the summer 2011 with an Honours Degree specialising in Sculpture.
Currently I'm living and working from my home and studio in Upper Tullig Caragh Lake, Co.Kerry.
In my work I try to create a sense of magic and mystery
“on a high with a brush in my hand”
Born in Dublin Marie Claire been calling to Kerry since she was four months old, and has been a permanent resident for the past 20yrs. She began painting during her twelve years in the Luciferian bush and went out to teach, the local African people the art of ‘hinterglas’ which is reverse painting on glass.
Once back in Kerry she studied watercolour painting. Her works particularly of Kerry landscapes, for which sshe has a fierce passion, is now hanging in collections around the world.
Marie Claire lives in the Dooks in a fascinating house transported 85yrs ago form Valentia Island where it was the first transatlantic cable station.
Josephine Nolan Kraft originally from Killorglin , Co. Kerry, spend most of her adult life living in South Africa and Germany.
She has now returned to her beloved Kerry were she lives with her husband Reinhard, returning to Germany frequently to visit her children and grandchildren.
Josephine has always held the arts close to her heart and whilst living in Johannesburg studied woodpainting ( Bauernmalerei ) at the college of arts and crafts Johannesburg. She has been developing her interest in painting and has particular interest in" still life" which she continues to develop at her home in Caragh Lake.
Marie Claire Stacey
Josephine Kraft
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