Irish Paintings

Robert Ballagh is born in Dublin to Bobbie and Nancy (nee Bennett) Ballagh at the height of the Emergency, the official designation for the Second World War in Ireland.

Tom Byrne
Is a contemporary artist,
He studied originally in the Bauhaus tradition which was founded in Germany. Then he studied under the Irish abstract expressionists, their school of philosophy. He was selected to participate with the independent artists group Michael Kane etc of which he exhibited extensively being described by the Irish times as powerful in college, He was influenced by the likes of Harry Clarke Jack Yeats, Kandinsky, Rothko, and other international Artists he have been described by international art critics as outstanding.

JOHN SKELTON
(1925 Armagh- 2009 Dublin) started his professional career in London, where he came under influence of Euston Road School in the late 1940s.

Norman Teeling
Teeling is one of Ireland’s leading impressionist painters. Born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944, Teeling graduated from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin in 1975 with a degree in Fine Art. After graduating, he began a successful career as a teacher, stage set designer ,sign writer and cartoonist for two national papers ,The Irish Press and Sunday World. He also worked in The Animation Film Industry as a background artist and animator in Ireland, Norway, and the USA.
While Teeling’s paintings include many local scenes of the coastal region of North Dublin, his outlook and insight have been sharpened by his travel abroad, particularly in the US, France and Norway. A true mark of the artist’s versatility and an undoubted acknowledgement of his talent are the ten paintings that were commissioned for the General Post Office in Dublin. The work depicts the events surrounding the ‘1916 Rising’ and remains on permanent display.

TC Murphy
Murphy was born in Walkinstown, County Dublin in 1953. He went to school in Drimnagh Castle which he left at the age of 16 to take up an apprenticeship in the jewellery trade with Irish Diamond Jewellers. After four years he became restless and travelled to Denmark. Here he worked initially as a cutler, then became a forester and even spent some time labouring in a steelworks. It was during this period that T.C. began to paint.

Mabel Young (18 August 1889 – 8 February 1974) was a British artist, who spent her career painting in Ireland.
In 1928, Young exhibited for the first time with the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) with the painting, Sugar Loaf mountain. She continued to exhibit with the RHA until 1961, showing 32 works in total.[4] The Sugar Loaf mountain was also exhibited at the Helen Hackett Gallery, New York as a show of Irish paintings in 1928. Henry moved in with Young at Carrigoona Cottage in 1929, building a studio there. She contributed to the Aonach Tailteann exhibition of Irish art in 1932. Young went on to hold her first solo exhibition in 1933 at the Country Shop, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin. During the summer of 1938, she and Henry visited the Twelve Bens area of Connemara, where Henry was collecting material for his autumn exhibition. In 1939 she exhibited Summer flowers in a vase in Dublin at a solo show. The Combridge Fine Art Gallery at the Shelbourne Hotel showed her a number of her paintings in 1940, primarily of Wicklow scenes, such as Lough Dan and the Sally Gap, and some areas of the south of France. Young’s painting, The white rocks, Killarney, was exhibited at the Hotel in 1942. In 1944, she exhibited The beech wood in November with the RHA, and in the same year was featured in a show at Goodwin Galleries, Limerick, Irish Artists.[2][4]

When Henry lost his sight, Young transcribed the manuscript of his autobiography from his dictation around 1946 and 1947. The resulting book, An Irish portrait (1951), was dedicated to her. The couple moved to 1 Sidmonton Square, Bray, County Wicklow in 1950. After the death of Grace Henry in 1953, Young and Paul married in 1954. Young was featured in the An Tóstal exhibition at the International Hotel, Bray in 1954, with paintings such as Lough Mask and Dingle Bay, Co. Kerry. She continued to paint after Henry’s death in 1958, holding a solo show at the Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin in 1962.