After successfully establishing herself in San Francisco California, Hilary Murray Freir has moved her studio back to Dublin. The artist fuses both representational images with Bay Area style abstraction. In her representational art light is often employed to create an austere setting. The central figure appears in a world reminiscent of reality but far removed from it. The placement of figures and the intimate nature of the scenes, create a feeling of voyeurism. Murray-Freir’s abstraction borrows from the gestural strokes of New York Ab Ex and the more modern concept of Street Art. The abstract imagery remains dense, full of texture, brushwork and colour.

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Therese Mc Allister is an Irish artist who studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin from 1972-74. After NCAD, Therese worked as a fashion illustrator, and display artist in Dublin before deciding to move to Italy in the mid 1970's.

On her arrival in Florence, she met Pietro Annigoni (renowned for his portraits of the British Royal Family) who encouraged her to enroll at the Studio Simi. Here, under the tutelage of Nerina Simi, she studied the techniques of drawing and painting in the classical tradition.

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John Nolan's exuberant style combines bold outlines with bright exotic colours. His interpretation of various motifs transmits a positive upbeat feeling to his viewers. These motifs are:

Fish, Flowers, People, Birds, Still Life, Abstract, Collage, Landscapes.

The celebration of colour and form, has preoccupied him from an early age and was nurtured through the encouragement and instruction received from his father who was an artist himself.

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Francis Kennedy works from a small studio at his home in Athenry, in the west of Ireland. “I own paint brushes and I use them”.

He has a great love of music, having played in a number of bands in a former life and much of his work revolves around musicians and recitals.

Francis’ art hangs on the walls of some famous names, like Sharon Corr, Brendan Shine, and the soprano Deirdre Shannon-Gilsenan, as well as in the offices of Coffey Construction and Galway Bay FM.

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Gerry Glynn was born in Dublin and formed an early interest in drawing, painting and sculpture.

Apart from a brief period in the National College of Art and Design, he is completely self-taught. He then went on to develop his own distinctive style in oil painting. He was at first influenced by classic sculpture, the surrealists and then, impressionsism.

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