Trish Taylor Thompson creates unique images that vibrate with life, energy and colour. Using a variety of media, she is inspired by the world of nature and music, painting in vibrant colours with the freedom of abstraction in tandem with the discipline of photorealism.

Áine Quinlan is a local artist living in Ballina, Co. Tipperary. She has been painting for many years and works mainly in oils. She focuses mostly on seascapes and gets her inspiration from the Wild Atlantic Way.

Seumas MacFarlane is a Scottish painter living in Ballina. In 2014, he returned to his passion of painting in oils. Largely self-taught, he enjoys working with palette knife, rags and brush on canvas. Increasingly, he is in awe of the majesty of the West coasts of both Scotland and Ireland, where they reveal their weather-related moody personalities.

Kay Mc Grath is a native of Killaloe who enjoys painting the landscape and scenery around Killaloe and Co. Clare. She likes to work in acrylics and oils. She tends to paint places she loves such as seascapes, mountains, landscapes and rivers with an abstract edge.

Andy McCarthy lives in Killaloe in Co. Clare. She has been painting and working in bronze for many years. Her work is in collections in Ireland, Britain, Australia and the United States.  

Ruth Riordan is a full time professional artist based in Birdhill, close to the twin towns of Ballina/Killaloe. She creates her paintings using the technique of finger painting with acrylic paint. This allows her to express herself freely and capture the energy and spirit of the natural world. Focusing on colour and texture gives her paintings a sense of presence and feeling of movement.

Alun Hoskins lives in Ballina-Killaloe, the area and landscape itself often providing his inspiration, having moved west from Dublin in 2011. He describes himself as "an artist who paints with a camera" with his style increasingly developing into "Conceptual Photography". He also enjoys framing pictures, having done so for 15 years or more.

Danica Farran is a Killaloe-based mixed media artist primarily working in porcelain. The physical properties of her works use the inherent properties of the clay, malleability, flexibility, memory and lightness to create the eventual shapes that  instinctively form the final piece.

Nurturing a strong interest in creativity since childhood, Melissa Ryan grew a love for design, textiles and all forms of art.  Growing up in the bush in N.S.W Australia sparked the beginning of her artistic and textiles journey. Through her art, she hopes to engage the viewers’ imagination and evoke a sense of joy and wonderment. She paints using acrylics and oils, and creates textiles using upcycled and natural fabrics from her home studio.

Zuzana Jezikova is a visual artist currently living in Killaloe, Co.
Clare. In expressing her concept, Zuzana works with various media: from paintings, collages to ceramic sculptures. Her work is inspired by Irish mythology and legends.

Sean Slattery is a Tipperary-based artist. Through the medium of photography, he captures the essence of the Irish countryside, particularly Lough Derg. Through his art, Slattery invites us to pause and appreciate our environment, reminding us of the majesty of nature and its impact on our spiritual being.

Sarah Langham lives in nearby Castlelough, where she paints the surrounding landscape. She is especially drawn to the richness of the Bogs beneath the rolling drama of the Irish skies.

Joanna Porritt worked as an artist for ten years in Sweden from 2003 to 2013, exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions in southern Sweden. She was a member of the Västra Skånes Konstnärsgille. She has exhibited in the the Burren, Limerick, Wexford and France and was a member of the Real Art Project Limerick in the mid 1990’s.

Arek Baczkowski is a freelance photographer based in the
beautiful twin towns of Killaloe and Ballina. He graduated from School of Visual Arts at Limerick College of Further Education, where he studied both traditional & digital darkroom photography. Since 2019, he has directed THE BRIDGE Creative Arts Centre in Ballina, where you can find more of his landscape and wildlife photographs.

Simon de Brún lives in Killaloe. His solo exhibition 'Watershed' was shown at Cultúrlann Sweeney Gallery, in Kilkee, and he was selected by the Arts Office for a studio in the Tulla ‘Stablaí’ in 2018. His short art-film ‘fearless’ was exhibited at the Damer House gallery as part of the ‘Blackbird’ exhibition in August 2017. He is a graduate of the American Film Institute (AFI) Conservatory directing program and an alumni of Berlinale Talents. 

Working as an artist for over 28 years Lynn Kenny uses stitch in her work as a way to create texture,  movement, and as a drawing medium. She studied contemporary embroidery in NCAD in the 90s and has since then developed her unique style; manipulating and distressing traditional stitch techniques to create desired effects. Her work is predominately inspired by the wonder, beauty and refuge of nature.

Beate Gillson has a BA in Fine Art from the Limerick School of Art and Design. All her life, music and other art forms played a major role. They applied the filter she sees the world through, experiences life, digests predicaments. They give her the ability to express those feelings in an abstract way. 

Charlie  McGeever has a BA Hons from Glasgow Art School in photography and is also a professional musician. He lives just outside Ballina and has worked in the area for 20 years.

Grace Roberts lives in Clare and holds a BA in Visual Design from the Limerick School of Art & Design. She has been painting for many years and has had several solo exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Her work is rich in symbolism and explores the essence of what is is to be human. She uses pencils, pigments, inks, paints, and encaustic medium to bring her vision to life. The translucent layers of wax imbue the work with a captivating sense of depth and luminosity.