Rayleen Clancy graduated from Waterford IT in 2008 with an Honours Degree in Art; she studied at NCAD Dublin, and at San Francisco Art Institute. She graduated in Film Studies from Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology. Rayleen’s new work deals with the randomness of being and the sporadic quality of life itself. Her small canvases depict ghostly figures, embodied in raindrops of multi-coloured paint. The anatomy of these distant figures is brought down to a cellular level and the impressions they leave are fleeting.

Solo exhibitions include the Dyehouse Waterford, and South Tipperary Arts Centre. She exhibited in the 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, Carrick-on-Suir during The Clancy Brothers Music Festival 08, and also in Greyfriars Municipal Gallery, Waterford. She is currently showing in the Norman Gallery Enniscorthy; she features regularly on national media including Nationwide RTÉ1, and Spotlight the Waterford City TV Arts & Entertainment programme. Her work forms part of OPW, Waterford Co Council and other civic, corporate and private collections in Ireland and the US.