Profile
THE ARTISTS
Tom Doyle
Born in Tipperary but living in Dunboyne since
1984 Tom is married to Caroline and they have three daughters. He
has always enjoyed art and studied it in school. He loves to
visit art galleries and marvels at how wonderful some of the
paintings are. He has been painting for about ten years and is a
new member of the Old Schoolhouse art group. Tom mainly paints
landscapes and exhibited for the first time at Trim Library in
2006.
Marysia Harasimowicz
Born in England, of Polish origin, and living
in Ireland since 1996. She has been teaching art and crafts for
over 20 years. Originally specialised in decorative and printed
textiles and ceramics. Marysia also studied art history, fine art
and fashion/clothing. Her work has mainly been influenced by
colour, pattern, design and nature as well as eastern european
and ethnic culture. She works in pastels, acrylics, watercolour,
mixed media, fabric and print. Founding member of the group.
Emer Martin
Emer is an award winning artist and a
published novelist who lives in Kilcloone, Co Meath. She studied
painting in New York where she was awarded the
Summerville Arts prize. Recently
she was selected to spend time painting at the artist’s retreat
in Cillrialiag, Co Kerry. She had her first solo show at Noelle
Campbell Sharpe’s Origin Gallary in Dublin in 2006.
Vincent O’Neill
A self-taught artist originally from Kerry but
living in Dunboyne for the last 30 years. He is a retired teacher
who now teaches art to the active retired. Vincent had a sell-out
one-man show in Tralee in the Siamsa Theatre in 1979 and has had
numerous group exhibitions over the last 30 years. Paints in oils
and acrylics and has paintings in private collections in Zurich,
London, Germany and America.
Una Ryan
Una Ryan was
born and raised in Tipperary and now lives with husband and family in Co.Meath.
She has always had a keen interest in art and exchanged full time
employment to concentrate on art. After studying various disciplines
including pottery, bog oak sculpture and life drawing her focus is now
on nature, in particular seascapes and landscapes. She exhibits regularly
with the local art group “The Old Schoolhouse Art Group” Dunboyne and is
currently working towards a solo exhibition in her native town Nenagh in November 07
Annabel Potterton
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
Mette Sofie Roche
Originally from Norway but living in Ireland
for the past 30 years, currently in a converted stone barn
outside Dunboyne. Her artwork initially involved wool and
textiles. She started painting with watercolours some years ago
and today her preferred media is a combination of watercolour,
soft pastels and Indian ink. as well as textiles.
She has been a member of The Old Schoolhouse
Art Group since its foundation.
Noeleen Slevin
Born in Trim but has lived in Dunboyne for the
last 15 years. Noeleen is a member of the group since it’s
foundation. She works part-time as a nurse so finds painting a
pleasant and relaxing antidote.
