Old School House Art

Originally from England, I now live
on a small farm just outside Dunboyne in Co Meath and have three
children, turkeys, ducks and hens all which feature in my
paintings. Trips abroad give me new subjects to paint and I
particularly love the shop windows in Venice full of weird and
wonderful masks and puppets and buskers on the streets.

I have a diploma in ceramics and
started drawing during this period. For many years I used chalk
pastels loving the close contact with the medium. This is still
my preferred medium although I also use oils, mixed media and
print techniques and I still love drawing, particularly life
drawing. The art portfolio course has been an inspiration in that
it has taught good studio practice and development of ideas.

Besides being a member and
exhibiting with the Old Schoolhouse Group since it’s inception, I
have also exhibited at the People’s Art exhibitions in Lucan, at
Castle Park School in Monkstown at a group exhibition and in
Castleknock. As well as this I have exhibited in the UK doing
joint exhibitions with my mother, Anne Cole.

Member of the Old Schoolhouse Art
Group from 2001

Ceramics Diploma

Wandsworth Art College, London
1993-95

Studied under Nina Patterson one
morning a week

Artworks, Celbridge, Co Kildare
2000-2005