Biography
1961 Born 18 October
1981 Graphic Design, College of Marketing and Design, Parnell Sq. Dublin.
1982 Set Design Constructor, at Goetheanum theatre in Basel, Switzerland.
1982 Apprentice Sign Writer/Designer with Sign Design Ltd. Dublin.
1985 Moved to London and worked as a freelance sign maker, gilder and antique restorer.
Worked freelance in interior design, designing Irish style public houses interiors
and designing murals and decorative windows and mirrors.
1994 Returned to Ireland.

Solo Exhibitions
2008 'Field Work'. Riverside Gallery, Arklow, Co. Wicklow
2006 Airfield Trust, Dundrum, Co. Dublin
2005 The Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, County Dublin
2002 Plants with Healing Properties, Cúdos Art Centre, Mount Usher, Co. Wicklow.
2002 Nuts and Berries Gusto Cafe, in association with the Wexford Opera Festival.
2001 Fruit of the Earth, Watercolours, Signal Arts Centre, Co. Wicklow.
1997 September - "Flora", Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
1995 Glass Paintings and Mirrors Coopers Restaurant, Greystones, Co.Wicklow.

Group Exhibitions
2008 Dublin Painting and Sketching Club Annual Exhibition
2007 RHA open submission
2007 Dublin Painting and Sketching Club annual exhibition
2006 Mermaid Arts Centre Glendarragh Artists Group Show
2006 Mermaid Arts Centre Greenstar Open Submission
2006 Cherrylane, Greystones, Co. Wicklow
2006 RHA open submission
2005 L'Art Pour Tous, Contemporary Art Fair, Cannes, France
2005 Greystones Arts Festival, County Wicklow
2005 Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, Ireland, Women Artists
2005 Ashmolean, Oxford, England, 'A New Flowering" 1000 years of botanical art. Dr.Shirley Sherwood Collection
2004 Art Ireland, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
2004 Cherrylane, Greystones, Co. Wicklow
2004 Tramyard, Dalkey, Co. Dublin
2004 Form in Mind Exhibition in Loughrea, Co. Galway
2004 Group Show, Glencree Reconciliation Centre, Co. Wicklow.
2003 Christmas Exhibition, Metatron Art Gallery, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow
2003 "The Living Bog." Two person show with Michael Gemmell at the Davis Gallery, Dublin
2002 Red Dot Artists group, in association with the Chelsea Flower Show.
2002 'Fruits of Desire',Two person botanical exhibition, Metatron Gallery, Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow with Tamlin Blake, South African Artist.
2001 'Nuts and Berries", watercolours Gusto Restaurant, in association with the Wexford Opera Festival.
2001 Group exhibition, Department of the Arts, Mespil Road, Dublin
2000 Panoptic 2000, Bray Co. Wicklow.
2000 Watercolours, Gusto Restaurant, in association with the Wexford Opera Festival.
1997 Landscapes and Irish Wild Plants, two person exhibitionwith Noel Cleary, Coopers Restaurant, Greystones, Co. Wicklow.

Awards/Commissions
2005 Abbey Theatre, Importance of Being Earnest, flower design lamps with Fiona Coffey
2005 Connemara National Park, commission painting on glass of section of Bog.
2003 Office of Public Works, paintings for Wicklow Mountains National Park centre at Kilafin, Co. Wicklow.
1999 Mural for Brandon House Hotel, Swimming Pool, Co Wexford
1994 Designed scale models of a famine village and workhouse for 'Model World', an outdoor Historical Ireland
project in Newtownmountkennedy, Co. Wicklow.
1987 Islington Borough Council design award.
1979 European Schools Award Prize for Art.

Membership
Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin Painting and Sketching Club, Signal Arts Centre Society.

Collections:
Dr. Shirley Sherwood Collection, UK. Byrne Group, Greystones, Co. Wicklow,
OPW- Wicklow Mountains National Park, Co. Wicklow, Connemara National Park,
Private collections.