This exhibition features a wide variety of artworks from current and past members of Illustrators Ireland>> who’s pieces are seen in book publishing.The paintings, drawings and digital art displayed, are on the whole the originals from commissioned books.A variety of media is used from traditional paint to works entirely created digitally.To be officially opened byAward-winning…
My An Post stamp also features in this beautifully produced book, ideal for anyone interested in history and stamps. History on a Stamp Book>> Featured within this book are 26 stamp issues related to the Decade of Centenaries, totaling 54 stamps. These begin with the commemoration of the 1913 General Lockout and end with the Death…
I can finally reveal my good news on winning the national competition to design the stamp for the centenary of the establishment of Saorstát Éireann. The competition was open to professional artists and partnered by An Post and Business to Arts …. it really is a great honour, and thanks for choosing my work. National…
A book I illustrated has won… An Post Irish Book Awards 2022Best Irish-published book of the yearAn Irish Folklore Treasury by John Creedon My work is on the cover and there are also fourteen full page colour illustrations inside of mine. Each chapter begins with an illustration.
Same pages from a new book that I have illustrated… AN IRISH FOLKLORE TREASURY by John Creedon Details here>>
Here is another from a series of small works, commissioned by the OPW for Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir | The Blasket Centre
Here is one from a series of small works, commissioned by the OPW for Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir | The Blasket Centre. A melodeon to reflect the island’s musical tradition.
Another of my large sized works commissioned by the OPW for Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir | The Blasket Centre George Thompson George Thomson was a twenty year old Cambridge classics scholar when he first came to the Great Blasket Island to learn Irish in 1923 where he formed a close friendship with Maurice O’Sullivan.…
Another of my large sized works commissioned by the OPW for Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir | The Blasket Centre Muiris Ó Catháin Muiris, or Maras Mhuris, as he was known was born on the Great Blasket Island in 1873. In the final years of his life he dictated his life-story to Risteard Breatnach, determined to have his story…
Another piece from a commission for the OPW of seven large portraits of Blasket Islanders along with a number of other images for The Blasket Centre, Dún Chaoin. Appearing oversized down the Slí in the centre, my Scraperboards can be seen alongside the works of two other artists. This is Gearóid Ó Cathain (b.1947) dubbed “the…