Ross Stewart
His artwork is semi abstract paintings; based on landscape studies but organically developed, focusing on the atmosphere and mood of the place rather than the representational form. His highly textured mixed media paintings evoke wide expanses of bog or moor, solitary trees or boulders with vivid, intricate details submerged under glazes of earthy colours. Ross Stewart has exhibited across Ireland and the UK over the last 10 years and his work is held in public and private collections internationally. He has also worked as Art Director on the feature film 'The secret of Kells' due to be released this year by Cartoon Saloon/Buena Vista.

Ross Stewart says of his work "I like to think of my painting as being of an Irish style while possibly being blended with a more global design sense. I have always been inspired by the beauty of the Irish landscape and tried to capture the subtle atmosphere, light and moods of the land. I use limited palettes, natural hues, high contrast focal points against subtle gradients, anything I can to help convey the emotion of the place. Using this as the starting point of the piece, I allow it to develop into something more than a landscape painting. The painting can become a mix of abstract shapes and symbols, perhaps interspersed with small sketches or printed shapes, developing organically toward an amalgam of real and flat space. My art is always about hidden items and layers covering layers. It is always about balance of opposites; calm versus chaos, light against dark, line and shape, colour amid greys. It is always about the composition - how the shapes within the frame can play with emphasis, tension, symmetry and balance. I am constantly exploring the varieties of textures available through the mixing of oils, acrylics, charcoal, thread and other media and using these to enhance the energy and mood of the work.. I would like to think of the finished piece conveying that energy - the energy of exploration, of the creative process, of hiding and revealing precious elements and layers, of working to achieve that ultimate balance or tension."

Paul Flynn
Born in Ireland, he has studied in Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design & Technology, and also with the esteemed artist and tutor Niamh Harding Miller. He is constantly drawn to the Burren, the inspiration for his current body of work. He exhibits in important milieux including Microsoft Ireland Art Collection 07, and Biennale Internazionale dell'Arte Contemporanea, Florence 2005. His art is also influenced by Irish culture and ethos and forms part of collections in Europe, America and China.

Arthur K. Maderson
Arthur K. Maderson's success has been phenomenal with all his major shows over the past eleven years in both Ireland and the UK selling out. Born in London in 1942 he is included in a list of seventeen of the world's most successful and popular figurative painters in Modern Oil Impressionists by Ron Ransom.

Paul Fallon
Paul Fallon uses the familiar and common elements rooted in natural history realism and investigates authenticity and the way in which the two compromise each other. A Fine Art Sculpture graduate of National College of Art & Design 1997, Paul has worked as a graphic designer, sculpted for events companies (Breslin Group/Blue). Since returning from New Zealand last year he has focused on painting and teaching art. His love of surfing is often used as a reference for seascapes.

Blawnin Clancy
Mweelnahorna beach in Ring, Co Waterford is the inspiration for much of Blawnin Clancy's current body of work. During the Penal Days the perpendicular rock formations called Redmond's Temple provided shelter for Catholics to secretly attend masses, and Blawnin captures the essence and natural environment of this secret unspoilt land and beachscape with delicately painted oils on canvas, invoking a magic realism not unlike the American painter Edward Hopper. A graduate of National College of Art & Design, Blawnin has featured on Nationwide and other TV programmes. She recently held an acclaimed joint exhibition with her sister Rayleen in the Strand Theatre in Carrick-on-Suir during The Clancy Brothers Music Festival 08. Her solo show Drifter at STAC received much critical acclaim. Her work featured twice in Nationwide on RTE 1 and in Waterford Healing Arts Trust, and was featured recently on Spotlight the Waterford City Cable TV. The Swimmer appeared in the 2005 Daler-Rowney Calendar. She has exhibited in Green Acres Wexford, The Form Gallery Cork, Garter Lane Waterford, Lismore Arts Centre, Mullingar Arts Centre, The Old Market Arts Centre Dungarvan, Wexford Arts Centre. Her work is included in civic, corporate and private collections, and features on the cover of The Turning Tide (New Writing from County Waterford), edited by Thomas McCarthy.

Blawnin Clancy and her sister Rayleen had an acclaimed joint exhibition in Greyfriars Municipal Gallery, Waterford, and exhibit regularly in Joan Clancy Gallery in An Rinn, overlooking the Comeraghs and dramatic coastline of Co Waterford.

Andrea Jameson
Andrea Jameson is one of those rare artists who paints in situ in oils, often mixing her own pigments in the tradition of the classical painters. Born in Oslo in 1953, her mother was Norwegian and her father Irish. Her home has always been in Co. Waterford. After Newtown School she went to Florence to study with the famous drawing teacher, Signorina Simi for one year and then she was a pupil of Maestro Giovanni Colacicchi. She moved to London and joined the Getty & Guilds School where she studied drawing, painting and sculpture. Solo exhibitions were held in Dublin at the Wellesley Ashe Gallery 1976, The Lad Lane Gallery 1981 and in London at the Oliver Swann Gallery in 1983. She also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy Banquet Exhibition in 1992 and the Gorry Gallery in 1993. Her 2007 solo show in The Old Market House Dungarvan was an overwhelming success. There are numerous examples of her work in private collections in Europe, Scandinavia, the United States and Canada. As a flower painter she is featured in the Irish Botanical Illustrators & Flower Painters by Patricia Butler. Andrea Jameson comes from an artistic family –her grandmother Joan Jameson was a prominent member of the Dublin Painters, as was her cousin Evie Hone.

John Cullinan
Born in 1947 John Cullinan graduated with Honours from Limerick School of Art under the guidance of Jack Donovan. After teaching in LSA for two years, he studied under American artist Paul Brooks and Michael Dempsey. Cullinan then spent eight years enhancing his appreciation of nature and landscape in West Clare. He retired from teaching Art in De La Salle College Waterford in 1998, and has been exhibiting in group shows nationwide since 2000 including Adams and the James Gallery in Dublin, Kenny Gallery Galway, Lee Gallery Cork, Excel Centre Tipperary, Joan Clancy Gallery Ring, etc., and his solo show in the Old Market House Arts Centre Dungarvan in 2006 was an overwhelming success.

Olive O'Callaghan Watkins
"My work explores the use and translation of photographic imagery of people in painting. The results are images which capture moments of fragile beauty, innocence and seduction." Born in Dundalk in 1973, O'Callaghan graduated with Hons in Fine Art from NCAD and from Winchester School of Art, Barcelona with an MA in European Fine Art in 2001. She lives and works near Bath in the UK, and has exhibited in London, and in the West Country. She has also exhibited in Japan, and Spain. Her exhibitions include Tama 365 Tokyo, Panorama Gallery, Barcelona and also Emerging ART Chelsea London in 2005 and the Exeter Phoenix in 2007. Her solo show Sirens in Joan Clancy Gallery was a great success.

Sinéad Ni Chionaola
Chionaola is, according to Sophie Gorman art critic from the Irish Independent "a seriously hot tip…..you won't be throwing caution to the wind if you invest in a painting by her". A graduate of Crawford College of Art & Design, Sinéad Ni Chionaola has won many important awards and residencies which have enabled her to work and exhibit in Russia, America, Australia, Canada and Europe. She says of her work "…There is an almost sensual quality created by the dense layering of acrylic on canvas…" Her work forms part of major corporate, civic and private collections.

"My work has an energy of its own reminding the viewer of some aspect of the landscape, allowing them to look beyond what they see." explains Sinéad Ní Chionaola. "Kandinsky" she continues "spoke about the inner voice of the soul that can be reached only through solitude where nature serves as a doorway to true self-expression. My work is constantly validated by the landscape. Colours shapes and textures are absorbed into my soul and can come to be about the expression of life, time, memories and death. Barnett Newman commented that the new painter is concerned with his thought, and is anxious to act as a medium for the muse to link the beholder with the essences. The muse for me is the vast desert of solitude that I demand for myself as an artist. In 1992, I left the narrative of my paintings behind. They have now become simpler. I am a direct painter exercising total commitment in which the paint is allowed to converse.".

Dave West
Dave West exhibits regularly in Ireland and UK and has had four solo shows in the Blue Leaf Gallery Dublin, Daffodil Gallery Skerries, Art Upstairs Wexford and in Ardgillan Castle. Born in 1972 in Penclawdd, South Wales, he studied at Carmarthenshire College of Art, and is now resident in North Co Dublin. "I return time and time again to the same subjects for inspiration—Ireland's Bogs, my own back garden, but most of all the coastline –I find constant inspiration from it. The landscape is constantly changing and evolving as is my experience and technique of painting. Every time I return to a subject there is more to be explored. A member of the United Arts Club, his work is well represented in numerous private and corporate collections including Texaco, BP, Fingal Co Council, Dublin Chamber of Commerce and the ESB.

Rayleen Clancy
Rayleen Clancy's growing reputation will only be further enhanced by her latest works. The former National College of Art and Design (NCAD) and San Francisco Art Institute student has composed a vibrant collection of work, displaying the trusting innocence of childhood and early teenage years –creating a strong dichotomy with underlying hidden portents. The beguiling figurative images are evocative, and her use of colour makes the ordinary seem extraordinary. Many of these images have Wyeth-like quality with wide open heartland against a big sky and her restrained use of light is very effective.

Rayleen Clancy graduated from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology in Film Studies. Solo exhibitions include the Dyehouse Waterford, and STAC. She exhibited in the 173rd Annual RHA Exhibition, the Oisin Gallery Dublin, Mullingar Arts Centre, The Old Market House Dungarvan, and Wexford Arts Centre. She recently held an acclaimed joint exhibition with her sister Blawnin in the Strand Theatre in Carrick-on-Suir during The Clancy Brothers Music Festival 08, and also in Greyfriars Municipal Gallery, Waterford; they featured in Joan Clancy Gallery on Nationwide on RTE1 on a few occasions, and in Spotlight the Waterford City TV arts and entertainment programme hosted by Orla Rapple.

Katarzyna Gajewska
Born in Warsaw, Poland in 1978, graduated from the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts as a Master of Fine Arts in March 2005 and was awarded a Ministry of Culture Scholarship. The recipient of numerous residencies at Cill Rialaig, Co Kerry in 05, her solo and group shows around the country are always very successful. "I am looking for human simplicity and complexity….trying to catch the casual feelings, naked and defenceless in their realism. My portraits are like multilayered cocoons, profoundly intimate, sexual or innocent….still glances, crucial in their expression are uncovered in layers of my paint" she says of her work. Gajewska exhibits in the Origin Gallery and her much sought after work is the focus of national media acclaim.