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Biography
Ariyana Ahmad is a Dublin based artist who mostly works with pen and inks. She gets her inspiration from myths and legends. To see more of her work, go to http://www.arisdolls.blogspot.ie/
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Yohann Walter: By The Tree
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Biography
Yohann Walter is a visual and new media artist currently based in Ireland. His work widely explores the landscape and the role of narration, questioning and playing with their viability, impact or decline.
Cat Gavin: Illustration
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Biography
Cat Gavin is an Irish illustrator. Her work mainly centers around primitive themes and takes influence from interesting natural and organic forms. She has a degree in Visual Communications from NCAD. Her work has previously been seen in Hotpress and Terrorizer magazine. She has worked as an illustrator with several bands such as Mortichnia and Suan as well as individual artists and is currently working on an upcoming E.P Design for Suan, which will be released later on in the year.
https://www.facebook.com/Cat-Gavin-Illustration-877628945660138/?fref=ts
Helena Grimes: Illustration
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Biography
Helena Grimes is an Irish artist and illustrator based in Limerick, originally from Longford.. Her work has been exhibited in various locations nationally in Ireland as well as internationally in the UK, Netherlands, Egypt, Turkey and USA. Her work has been purchased for several private collections in Ireland, the UK and the USA, as well as Longford County Council’s municipal art collection. Her work ‘Every Soul has a Dark Forest’ was commissioned and purchased by the University of Limerick in 2015.
Mary Murphy: Window
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Biography
Irish artist Mary Murphy “is original and possesses superior skill. But most of all she is compassionate toward every person that she portrays in her work. She has expanded beyond her beginnings in textile design to master an individualized technique. ”
Trudi Van Dyke. Independent Fine Arts Curator.
Winter Edition 2015, Fiber Art Now Magazine.
This technique of replacing pen and paper with needle and thread, as a method of drawing, hearkens back to her classical art training.Murphy’s art explores the human form in line and form through a variety of media… her interest lies in the experiences that mold our bodies and indeed alter them. The resulting work of sinewed muscles, paper dry wrinkles, bone jutting through skin and the play of light over them, make for powerful viewing. After her Degree in Fashion Design and post graduate studies, she won National Designer of the year Award for Ireland.
Working in Milan and Paris before returning home to Cork, she ran a successful Commercial Creative Studio before deciding on becoming a full time Artist. Mary teaches part time from her studio in Carrigaline, Co. Cork.
Pawel & Kasia: Broken Tale
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Biography
Pawel Kleszczewski and Kasia Zimnoch are a duet of Polish artists living in Cavan, Ireland. Pawel and Kasia create animation based on mythology, folklore and legend. They combine their artistic experience with elements of art history, ethnology and cultural anthropology. The method of their work is based on extensive cultural research. Kasia and Pawel search for the possible, the widest scope of theoretical material which relates to their subject; they seek legends, myths, local stories, scientific studies. Starting to work with traditional techniques, they find that animation is the result. They create complex worlds of art which include many elements: animation, drawing, painting and prints. In 2016 they finished “Broken Tale” animation, which is based on Swedish folk tale about Princess Tuvstarr. In 2015 they have created another animation illustrated Scandinavian folk tale “Dag and Daga and the Flying Troll of Sky Mountain.” In 2013 they have created two animations refers to Irish mythology- “Balor the Evil Eye” and “The Voyage of Saint Brendan.” In 2015 they were invited to be Guest Artists in Residence in Smedbyn, Sweden.
Patricia Fitzgerald: Labyrinth
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Biography
Patricia Fitzgerald studied Visual Education and Communication at Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design (IADT) and also holds an honours degree in Philosophy and Sociology from University College, Dublin. She hosts workshops and retreats both in Ireland and abroad on the Mindful Art of the Mandala & Meditation. She practices mindfulness techniques daily in her own life and holds a professional certificate in the Therapeutic Use of Mindfulness.
Evelyn Suttle: Hugin and Munin
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Biography
Evelyn Suttle is a Dublin based portrait artist interested in the themes of wildlife and compassion. A graduate of the Institute of Art & Design Technology, she has since exhibited work in Clontarf Castle, the Centre for Creative Practice, the Duke Street Art Gallery and the Stephen’s Green Portrait Studio. Her current work focuses on compassion towards animals and conservation, using primarily the medium of watercolour and pencil.
Pat Byrne: Half In The World Of Form
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Biography
Originally from Laois, Ireland, Pat Byrne moved to Galway in 2006 to study at Galway Mayo Institute of Technology where he received a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art 2010. He remained in Galway for a short time before returning to Laois having been awarded a studio by Laois County Council. Pat graduated in 2015 with a Masters in Fine Arts from The National College of Art and Design, Dublin. The focus of Byrne’s work is Irish superstition and folklore, portraying folk figures in a more realistic fashion in an attempt to reflect the contemporary human condition.
Eilish Sherwin: Plait
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Biography
Eilish Sherwin is a visual artist and illustrator based in Dublin. She specializes in fine art printmaking and photography. Sherwin also uses a range of different mediums to accentuate her concepts including sculptural elements, mixed media and paint. She completed her Bachelors of Art in Art and Design in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology in 2014 and received her Higher Diploma in Illustration in 2011. She has exhibited in numerous group shows and is part of the renowned National University of Ireland Galway’s art collection. Sherwin’s work is a contemporary take on surrealism, sourcing themes from mythology, the ironic and the macabre.
Tales From The Forest 