This page is for artists from outside the British Isles who paint, or have painted, Irish subjects or have lived here and been active.
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Page updated 10/6/2022
Alijagic, Edin (1951)
“Turf Stacks, Connemara” oil on canvas (18″ x 24″), sold at Ross’s – 19/5/2021 for £80.00.
Ashurova, Nasiba
Ason, Eva-Marie
Swedish artist living and working in Ireland since 2006.
Balcerzak, Wilhelm (1941)
Baldemor, Marvin
Originally from Manila in the Philippines and now living and working in Letterkenny, County Donegal.
Becker, Barbara (1958)
Australian born artist now living and working in West Cork.
“Allihies by the Sea” 2021, oil on canvas (24″ x 24″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 1/11/2021 for €650.00.
“Pink Reflection” oil on canvas (23.5″ x 23.5″), unsold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 23/5/2022.
Beranger, Gabriel (1725 – 1817)
Beranger’s Views of Ireland – by Peter Harbison, published by the Royal Irish Academy, 1991.
Bergmann, Inge
Swedish born artist living in Ireland since 1994.
Blunk, Thomas
German artist based in Düsseldorf – a lot more to follow!
“Cottage by the Sea in Ireland” watercolour.
Bockmann, Marion
Borge, Denise
Born in South Africa, Denise Borge has been living in Ireland since 1983.
Bosnegeanu, Mihaela
Originally from Gdansk in Poland, Mihaela is based in County Kilkenny and specialises in Equine Art.
More here: The-Dark-Horse-Art
Bradley, Nana (1991)
Originally from Japan, Nana Bradley (nee Wakasugi) is a self-taught artist now living and working in County Galway.
Bradtke, Graham
Galway based artist Graham Bradtke was born in Melbourne, Australia. He graduated from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia with a bachelor of Fine Arts degree majoring in Painting and Sculpture. Previous to living in Ireland, he worked as a Cartographer, Graphic Artist and a Freelance artist in Australia.
Brunner, Hermann
Bunello, Cristina
Italian born portrait artist based in Dublin.
Crocker, Jon
Curran, Donald
Donald Curran is an Irish-American artist whose family is from Dundalk. He currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri. After graduating from high school, he studied at the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1975 Donald began a career as an illustrator. He is best known for designing and illustrating high end collectable steins for Anheuser-Busch, Inc. After twenty years of working for hundreds of national and international companies, he decided to devote himself to his first love of fine art oil painting. Donald’s work has been exhibited in numerous museums, galleries and exhibitions.
Harbour scene oil on canvas (24″ x 36″).
d’Alesi, Hugo (1849 – 1906)
A French artist who produced artwork for several Irish railway companies.
Dambadarjaa, Enkhbold (1966)
Enkhbold was born in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, and now lives and works in Dublin.
“Dublin Castle” watercolour (12″ x 16″), unsold at Whyte’s – 9/7/2018.
Danell, Cecilia (1985)
Swedish painter living and working in Co.Galway since 2004.
Delrenne, Edmond (fl.1916)
Belgian.
A witness to the Easter Rising, Delrenne painted a number of scenes which captured the appalling destruction that befell the City Centre. Images from Irish Arts Review
Del Vecchio, Phyllis
“Winter’s Dream” watercolour (21″ x 28″), sold at Dolan’s – 8/2018 for €400.00.
“Driving them Home” watercolour (10″ x 14″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 15/6/2020 for €380.00.
Exon, Randall (1956)
Randall Exon was born in Vermillion, South Dakota. He earned his B.F.A. in painting from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, and an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa.
He is also a continuing Fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. Since 1997 he has returned each year for extended periods of time painting along the northwest coast of Mayo.
“The Nuns” oil on board (12″ x 18.5″).
Fekete, Beatrix
Hungarian born artist now living and working in Ireland.
Fenn, Alyn
Alyn Fenn lives and works in West Cork. She studied art in America, earning a BFA Honours Degree from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA Honours Degree from the University of Delaware.
Ferris, Monika
Monika Ferris is a portrait artist from Poland living and working in Dublin since 2007.
More here: Monika.Ferris.Art
Flynn, Dave
American born artist now living and working in Bray, Co.Wicklow.
Gahan, Reingard
Reingard Gahan was born in Duisburg, Germany and studied Graphic Art & Illustration at the Dusseldorf College of Art and Design.
After working in Dublin, London & Belfast she returned to Germany and embarked on a successful career as a freelance illustrator for various international advertising agencies. In 2001 she moved from Dusseldorf to Clifden, County Galway, where she now lives and works. 2004 saw the publication “Connemara – Visions of Iar Connacht (by Michael Gibbons) which featured 30 of her watercolours. She has exhibited in Ireland and Germany and her paintings can be found in private collections in Canada, USA, Australia, Ireland, UK, France & Germany.
More here: Reingard-Gahan-Paintings
Garau, Daniela
Originally from Italy and living in Ireland for the last twelve years.
(See the Wildlife page)
Goldammer, Dörte
German artist living and working in Ireland since 2001.
Grothe-Neumann, Brigitte
“Boglands” pastel on paper (12.5″ x 12.5″), unsold at Ross’s – 11/10/2017.
Gruizinga, Fred (1938)
Fred Gruizinga worked as the head of a design studio for illuminated signs with a leading technical advertising agency in Holland before moving to Ireland in 1977.
“Dunmanus Bay, West Cork” oil on canvas (12″ x 16″), sold at Hegarty’s, Bandon – 27/2/2019 for €120.00.
“Ardglass, Co.Down” oil on canvas board (17.5″ x 21.5″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 19/3/2019 for €100.00.
Helmick, Howard (1845 – 1907)
American.
“Mending the Nets” – 1886 – oil on canvas (21″ x 30″). In the collection of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Hamden, Connecticut, USA.
“Woman by the Hearth” dated 1875, oil on canvas (19″ x 17″), unsold at Adam’s – 22/11/2017.
Henri, Robert (1865 – 1929)
American artist who fell in love with the West of Ireland and its people in the early part of the 20th century. More to follow shortly.
“My Friend Brien” 1913, oil on canvas. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Crist, Jr. in memory of John L. Crist, Sr. 1966.14. Collection of The Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Henri painted this picture of Brien O’Malley, his friend and guide, during his first visit to the town of Achill, Ireland, in 1913. With its bold brushwork and its unflinching depiction of O’Malley’s weather-beaten features, My Friend Brien is a clear testament to Henri’s belief that a painting should be as direct and frank a representation of its subject as possible. He wrote in 1915, just two years after completing this painting: “The people I like to paint are ‘my people,’ . . . people through whom the dignity of life is manifest . . . wherever I find them . . . my impulse immediately is to tell about them through my own language—drawing and painting in color.”
“West Coast of Ireland” dated 1913, oil on canvas (26″ x 32″), in the collection of Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York.
“Cottages – County Mayo, Ireland” oil on board (12.5″ x 16″), unsold at James Cox Gallery, New York – 22/5/2022.
“From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland” by Jonathan Stuhlman.
Paperback, 152 pages – published by Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina (2011).
Further images here: From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland
And, if that’s not enough for you here’s more information about this fascinating artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Henri
Hödicke, Karl Horst (1938)
“Irish landscape with Village” 1982/89, India ink on wove paper (24″ x 35″), sold at Grisebach, Berlin – 17/12/2021 for €1,500.
Howard, Edith Lucille (1885 – 1960)
Edith Lucile Howard was born in Vermont, New Hampshire, USA.
She enrolled at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women when she was nineteen and received her diploma in 1908. Her teachers there were Henry Bayley Snell (1858–1943) and Elliot Daingerfield (1859–1932); she attended the latter’s summer courses in North Carolina and became interested in landscape painting. Howard won two postgraduate fellowships to Europe, thus initiating a lifetime of frequent travel to the Continent; she is reputed to have crossed the Atlantic thirty times during her life and was particularly attracted to Ireland. She also travelled all over the United States and to South America. www.schwarzgallery.com
“Blarney Castle” oil on canvas (45″ x 35″), sold at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Maine, USA – 27/8/2021 for $500.00.
Howet, Marie (1897 – 1984)
Marie Françoise Céline Howet was a Belgian expressionist painter and illustrator.
“Rosapenna, Donegal” pochoir plate from a limited edition published in Paris in 1934 (11.4″ x 15.4″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 26/4/2021 for €320.00.
“Achill” limited edition pochoir print, (8.5″ x 12″) – sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 10/1/2022 for €140.00.
Iwanek, Zofia
I’m Polish artist from Warsaw and presently based in Ireland. I achieved Master of Fine Arts degree, majoring in painting, in European Academy of Art in Warsaw 2005.
Ixygon, Serg (1958)
Pseudonym for Russian born artist Serg Kisselev.
“The Liffey” oil on canvas (28″ x 36″), sold at Gormley’s – 2/6/2020 for £750.00.
“Howth Harbour” oil on canvas (16″ x 19″), sold at Gormley’s – 28/9/2021 for £160.00.
Jargiello, Agnieszka
Agnieszka Jargiello is a self taught, professional artist, living In Ireland for over 10 years.
She undertakes drawing and painting commissions.
Joy, Margherita
Margherita Joy is the pseudonym used by Dublin based Italian artist Margherita La Gioia.
“Pilgrimage to Glendalough” acrylic on canvas (24″ x 26″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 13/3/2017 for €360.00.
Kauffer, Edward McKnight (1890 – 1954)
A prolific and influential American-born graphic designer.
Two of his posters dating from 1949 and 1953 respectively.
Kent, Rockwell (1882 – 1971)
Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York.
In 1926 he spent a year living in a one-room cottage belonging to Dan and Rose Ward in Gleann Locha, a remote townland which cannot be reached by road. The valley of Gleann Locha/Glenlough divides the parishes of Ardara and Glencolmcille in South West Donegal and entering it involves a 90-minute trek from the nearest road. Here the artist produced a number of notable works.
More about the artist here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwell_Kent
“Sturral, Co.Donegal” 1926/27 , oil on canvas (34″ x 44″) in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
“Irish Coast, Donegal” oil on canvas – in the collection of The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia.
Klinger, Ursula
Knapp, Antoon
Dutch artist now living and working in Ireland.
Korff, Anne
Kos, Adam
“Co.Sligo” oil on board (8″ x 10″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/9/2017 for €50.
“Landscape I” oil on board (8″ x 12″), unsold at Ross’s – 24/2/2022.
Kos, Kate
Polish born artist now living and working in County Wexford.
Krause, Friedrich Heinrich Max (1861 – 1931)
Born at Biesdorf, near Berlin, Max Krause emigrated to England with his parents and ended up living in Lancashire. He was a highly regarded artist and painted many scenes throughout the British Isles including Ireland and the Isle of Man.
Like many of his compatriots at that time, Max Krause changed his name to avoid anti-German sentiment and became Max Henry Crouse.
More information about the artist can be found here: The Lytham St. Annes Art Collection
“Custom House, Dublin” dating from c.1884, oil on canvas (47″ x 67.5″), sold at Outhwaite & Litherland Auctioneers, Southport, in 2003 for £30,000. The dimensions shown above may be incorrect as there’s a lot of confusion surrounding this painting.
MacCameron, Robert (1866 – 1912)
American artist.
Portrait of Edward Carson, 1911, oil on canvas (36″ x 28″), sold at Whyte’s – 7/12/2020 for €10,000.
Marchand, Laureen
Canadian artist who has lived and worked in Ireland from time to time including a spell as artist in residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. She is particularly enamoured with Connemara and some of her paintings of the region can be found here: www.laureenmarchand.com/connemara
McCaw, Terence John (1913 – 1978)
South African artist.
“Dalkey Island from Coliemore Harbour, County Dublin” oil on canvas (20″ x 24″), sold at Whyte’s – 7/12/2020 for €8,000.
Medcalf, William
William (Bill) Medcalf was born in Minneapolis in the USA and all of his art education came from schools near his hometown. In 1940 and 1941, he worked in the art department of the United States Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and in 1942, he joined the Navy as a gunners mate. Bill painted more than twenty years of beautiful pinups for Brown & Bigelow from 1947 to 1967, handling all the special-project calendar commissions for their most important customers.
Ross Castle, Killarney – Irish Tourism poster – early 1960’s.
Melai, August “Guus” (1923 – 2000)
Dutch graphic designer who came to Ireland to work on the Aer Lingus account for the Sun Advertising Agency in Dublin. His bold new designs did not please the Arts Council and they complained to Aer Lingus.
Left to right: Aer Lingus poster from 1956; and An Tóstal poster from 1953/58.
Other companies including CIE, the State Transport Company, were quick to enlist the services of Guus Melai.
“Farmsteads, West of Ireland” dated 1955, oil on board (19″ x 23″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 23/10/2017 for €1,200.
Midoun, Bashir (1971)
Original from Algeria, Bashir Midoun has been living in Ireland since 1994.
“Butterslip Lane, Kilkenny” oil on canvas (19″ x 16″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 10/3/2020 for €280.00.
Mills, Colette (-2014)
American artist who retired to West Cork.
“The Nun’s Walk” dated 1978, oil on canvas (36″ x 28″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 21/9/2020 for €320.00.
Mintz, Raymond (1925 – 2008)
An American born artist of German extraction who moved to Ireland in 1969.
“Circus Scene” dated 1990, oil on board (17″ x 19.5″), sold at Adam’s – 12/6/2016 for €950.00.
Nowinska, Eva (1983)
Eva graduated with a Masters Degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland, and now lives and works in Newcastle West, Co.Limerick. She loves to paint angry seascapes and landscapes as well as portraits and wall murals.
Over the years she has participated in many exhibitions and projects in Ireland and abroad. Eva runs regular art classes at various locations in County Limerick.
She welcomes private commissions and may be contacted via her website.
“Cliffs of Moher” oil on canvas – work in progress.
Left to right: A recent pet portrait commission and “River Arra, Newcastle West” oil on canvas.
Ogieniewski, Birgit
O’Reilly, Iwona Nartowska (1974)
Perry, Rae
American artist now based in Dublin.
More here: Rae-Perry-Art
Peské, Jean Misceslas (1870 – 1949)
Jean Misceslas Peské took evening classes at the Kiev painting school, then attended the Fine Arts school in Odessa and in 1891 became a student at the Académie Julian in Paris.
“Ross Castle, Killarney, Ireland” pencil and pastel on paper (8.5″ x 11″), sold at Willow Auction House, New Jersey, USA – 24/5/2022 for $150.
Pivovarova, Diana
Born in Latvia and now living in Galway, Diana Pivovarova studied painting in the Latvian Academy of Arts. She also trained as a classical musician.
More here: Diana Pivovarova
Plantureux, Renee
Renee Plantureux, who signs her paintings with the pseudonym ‘Ophelie‘ is a native of southwest France. She has been a regular visitor to the west of Ireland since 1989 and has a built a reputation in her home country as a talented landscape painter.
Price, Norman Mills (1877 – 1951)
Born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Norman Price studied at the Ontario School of Art, then in London at the Westminster School of Art and the Goldsmith’s Institute.
A romanticised view of Ireland produced for Coca Cola and used in 1943/44 in Life Magazine amongst others.
Prosen, Clémence
French artist living and working in Ireland.
Rawbon, Joseph Loxton (1855 – 1942)
“On the Irish Coast near Youghal, Co. Cork” oil on canvas (16″ x 24″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 21/9/2020 for £160.00.
Richards, William Trost (1833 – 1905)
“The Skelligs, Coast of Ireland” oil on canvas (40″ x 72″), sold at Sotheby’s (New York) – 2/10/2018 for $50,000.
Roberts, Dorothée (1961)
“The Burren’s Perfumery” acrylic on canvas (30″ x 40″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 28/5/2018 for €440.00.
“Nohoval Cove, Co.Cork” acrylic on canvas (30″ x 40″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/6/2018 for €340.00,
Saracino, Vito Petrus
An Italian iconographer living in Ireland since 2003 specialising in sacred drawings.
Above: Irish Sacred Painting with the three patron Saints of Ireland: St Columba (Colm Cille), St. Patrick and St. Brigid. Also the main characters of Knock apparition, and the Guardian Angel of Ireland. Acrylic on a A4 paper.
Schmid, Richard (1934 – 2021)
“Dunguaire Castle, Galway, Ireland” oil on board (9″ x 12″), sold at Jackson Hole Art Auction, Wyoming, USA – 19/2/2022 for $3,750.
Smith, Henry Pember (1854 – 1907)
An American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine.
“River Lee nr. Cork” oil on board (7″ x 10″) – offered for sale on eBay for £5,000+ during 2018 – still for sale June 2021.
Smits, Joop (1938 – 2014)
Born in Eindhoven, Holland and graduated from the Eindhoven Academy in 1961. In 1992 he moved to Ireland where he built a studio in County Kerry and completed many works inspired by the Irish landscape. In 2008 he relocated to Mallorca.
“Foxgloves by a River” oil on panel (6.5″ x 9″), sold at Mealy’s – 7/12/2016 for €400.00.
“Kenmare Bay Light” oil on panel (7″ x 9.5″), sold at Mealy’s – 7/12/2016 for €450.00.
“Irish Cottage in an Irish Landscape” oil on board (24″ x 28″), sold at Ross’s – 25/4/2018 for £500.00.
Stromberg, Ana
Sutra, Zane
Latvian artist living and working in County Wexford.
Terry?
I can’t pin this artist down – any help would be welcome.
Ashford Castle, Cong, Co.Mayo.
Toorop, Jan (1858 – 1928)
Dutch/Indonesian artist.
“St.Patrick” Irish landscape c.1910/11, watercolour drawing (11.5″ x 7″), unsold at Adams Amsterdam Auctions, Netherlands – 13/12/2021.
Traynor, John C (1961)
American artist, John Traynor’s style is reminiscent of some of the 19th century painters and sometimes the Dutch Masters.
“County Kerry, Ireland” oil on linen (36″ x 48″).
Treidler, Adolph (1886 – 1981)
An American born artist who was one of the most influential illustrators and poster designers of the twentieth century.
Tsaryk, Tetyana (1969)
Tetyana Tsaryk is a talented Ukrainian artist living and working in Ireland since 2001. Her work may be found in the Green Gallery at the St.Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Dublin.
More here: Bespoke-Irish-Art
“O’Connell Bridge, Dublin” oil on canvas (20″ x 28″), sold at Ross’s – 4/11/2020 for £160.00.
Van Gelderen, Gerrit (1926 – 1994)
See Wildlife page.
Van Kampen, Marja
www.marjavankampen.wixsite.com
Dutch born artist Marja van Kampen is a full-time painter and printmaker, receiving her degrees for Painting, Printmaking and Art History from the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem, The Netherlands, in 1972. She now lives and works in Enniscorthy, County Wexford.
“Tea in the Summerhouse” 2008, acrylic on canvas (39” x 39”) – Institute of Technology Collection, Tralee, Co.Kerry.
More here: www.marjavankampen-artist.blogspot.ie
Van Stockum, Hilda Gerarda HRHA (1908 – 2006)
Dutch born artist.
Left to right: “Still Life with Pottery & Pears” oil on canvas (16″ x 15″), sold at Adam’s 28/9/2016 for €1,000; “Paris Garden” oil on canvas (24″ x 18″); “Copper Pot, Brass Pitcher and Bowl” oil on board (13.5″ x 18″), unsold at James Adams – 30/5/2018 and “Still Life with Apples and Tin Can” oil on board (16″ x 20″), sold at Morgan O’Driscoll’s – 25/6/2018 for €1,300.
Van Tuyll, Alexandra
Alexandra Van Tuyll was born in the Netherlands, and she travelled widely before settling in Ireland in the 1970s. She taught art and music before moving to Achill in 2001 in order to paint full time – and the islanders now claim her as ‘one of their own’. She exhibits in solo and group shows in leading galleries in Ireland and abroad, and her work is to be found in both public and private collections.
“Deserted Village, Achill“.
Weerasekera, Paul
www.paul-weerasekera.pixels.com
Sri Lankan artist living and working in Limerick.
Whitmore, Olive
American born equestrian artist and illustrator. She supplied artwork to Scholastic Productions (Belfast) for their art postcards, but is probably best known in Ireland for her iconic RDS Horse Show posters.
Wojciechowska, Violetta
Polish artist.
Yong, Jin
Chinese artist living and working in Ireland since 2002.
Zier, Kasper
Kasper Zier is a self-taught Danish water-colourist living and working in Dublin. As the grandchild of painter Wolmer Zier (1910 – 1990) and with numerous other artists in his family he has always been attracted to drawing and painting, and felt it natural to continue the family tradition. Although he has worked professionally as a graphic designer, he has throughout the years produced various paintings and has held exhibitions in Denmark and Ireland.
His painting style has a fresh and spontaneous feel to it. Rather than painting every detail he looks out for interesting shapes in his subjects and translates these into pure visual language. Kasper’s subjects include landscape, interior and street scenes – capturing the play of light on buildings and streets.
The artist undertakes commissions and can be contacted via his website.
“Rathmines in the Snow” 2010, watercolour.
Zsamba, Panna
Hungarian born artist now living and working in Dublin.
Further information about this talented artist on the Wildlife page here.
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