Liam Jones

Conor McGuire was born in the west of Ireland and has chosen to live there as his influences are taken from the local rural landscape and townscape. His technique can vary from realism to abstract depending on the subject, but he finds his artistic home to be in an impressionistic impasto technique.  He loves the quality and light in the west of Ireland and the shifting transience it brings to the subject matter. He likes subjects that are timeless and speak to the viewer without requiring them to be political or analytical. To his viewer Conor hopes to get some sense of the quirky essence that makes the west of Ireland life so special..a sense of the timelessness of the place, its friendliness and beauty. The type of medium he uses depends on the type of painting he is working on; for landscape and townscape he uses oils and then acrylics for abstract work. He favors lush textured brush strokes, allowing the paint to convey and suggest form and detail.  Conor hopes to convey a sense of joy of being alive and living a full life in a unique and beautiful place.

Eamonn Mullarkey is an Irish artist based in Dublin, born and raised in Ballina Co Mayo. For the past 40 years he has been painting with oils on canvas. His development as an artist has been influenced by the diversity of shape and form and the ever changing light and colour in the environment in which he grew up and where he continues to spend a lot of time. This is an area between the strong Atlantic coastline and the rugged Ox mountains. In his painting he tries to depict this landscape by creating a dialogue between the Abstract and the Representational.

Trisha Slowey is an Irish artist based in County Mayo, in the west of Ireland. A graduate of The National College of Art and Design, she specialises in oil paintings and all of her paintings are one off originals. Trisha would describe her style as realist and her attention to detail has become her trademark. Her inspiration for her paintings is derived mainly from her beautiful natural surroundings in the north west of Ireland. She also has a great passion for portraits.