The Purcell Gallery

Rosemary Purcell lives in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, from where she draws on the rich palette of colour found in all seasons for atmospheric landscapes and mountainscapes.

A self-taught painter, Dana is originally from Dublin, where she studied History of Art at Trinity College. She now lives in South Kerry where the local landscapes often provide inspiration for her work. Her paintings are a gallery of the light and colours of the outdoors softly delivering natural detail from rocky lakes and sandy seascapes to closer studies of trees, ferns and flowers.

Una Bennett is a UK based artist who returns to her family roots in Sneem each year to paint

Vincent Smith is a Dublin based artist who paints wonderfully detailed woodland scenes

John Desmond is a renowned chef and restaurateur from Heir Island in West Cork. He started painting at 50 and studied art on Sherkin Island. John is a minimalist at heart

Eoin Cassidy is an artist based in Cork, his abstract landscapes are painted in acrylic

Tim Goulding was born in Dublin in 1945 and has lived and worked near Allihies on the Beara peninsula in West Cork since 1969. Tim’s paintings were inspired by landscape, nature, rocky coastlines and sea as well as bog fires and the elements. For years Tim worked in series, often spending three or four years on one subject. These collections can be radically different in both style and content but always stay true to a response to what appears in his life both visually and emotionally. His work has been exhibited in Ireland, England and the United States as part of solo and group exhibitions.

Joop Smits (1938-2014) was born in Eindhoven, Holland and graduated from the Eindhoven Academy in 1961. In 1992 he moved to Ireland where he built a studio and completed, among his other works, many beautiful paintings inspired by the Irish landscape. In 2008 he took the decision to move permanently to Mallorca where he had established a studio a few years previously. His paintings encompass a broad range from intriguing and elaborate fantasy landscapes to deeply atmospheric representations of coastal and mountain scenes and light and beautiful still lifes.

Ludmilla Korol was born in 1965 in the Ukraine and graduated from Kiev Academy of Fine Art in 1989. She lived and worked as an artist in Prague before coming to live in Ireland in 1996. She uses a variety of media in her work- creating paintings that aim to reflect the ever changing landscape of human emotion.

Born in Mallow, Co. Cork in 1940, Michael McCarthy moved to Northern Ireland as a child with his family and later to England where he attended Newark College of Art. Internationally inspired, he spent many years living in Australia where he met, travelled and worked with Australian artist Leonard Long. He became (in 1992) artist in residence with the U.S Forest Service for which he spent a year in the Sierra Nevada mountains. He returned to Ireland in 1997 where he now lives. His sweeps of mountain, river and trees give fitting tribute to the landscape of Co. Kerry where he has painted many scenes from mirrored lakes to grazing cattle and tumbling rivers. He has had more than 40 major exhibitions and is found in private and public collections worldwide.

Born in Kent, England, John Lawrence first made a name for himself in the 1960s when he was commissioned by Wilkinson Sword to produce a set of engravings for ceremonial swords for images used to advertise their razor blades. In the 1980s and 90s Lawrence completed work for some major advertisers and institutions including illustrating the original Big Ben logo that appeared on HP Sauce. In 1993 Lawrence decided to make changes to his life and concentrate more on his oil painting. He now paints full time and his work features in international collections.

Danny is a self-taught artist living and working in Bantry, West Cork where he is also the popular postman and subject of a recent RTE NATIONWIDE feature. He travels on his motorbike (with easel in tow) around the country to paint but always returns to the people and landscapes of West Cork to paint scenes which have led to some of his most sought after work. He is driven to capture the play of light that the Irish landscape offers and also to capture Irish culture through his depiction of West Cork characters

Danny explores a wide range of colours and techniques. H describes the magic of transforming blank white canvases into colourful semi-abstract paintings as exciting every time

Niall Naessens is a well known printmaker now living in the Dingle area

Irish artist Hilary Nunan studied fine art at Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork and has since exhibited internationally. Living on the Irish coast and often heavily influenced by nature, her work involves the use of mixed materials combining natural fibres and acrylic colour to create texture and depth and reflect “a rich tapestry of seaside delights” from fields, skies and grasses to fields and seas.

Michael O’Muirthile is a national prize-winning artist whose forte includes equine art, landscape and portraiture. He is greatly influenced by his local place and by the immense pool of inspirational detail to be discovered throughout Ireland

He currently lives and works in the beautiful Lee Valley near Macroom. Co Cork

Gearoid o’Shea is a native of Kenmare. His landscapes ar wonderful interpretations of the local countryside, in particular he captures the weather and atmosphere of Beara. Gearoid for many years ran the Iverni Gallery in Kenmare and introduced many local artists to the visiting public

Con Kelleher , a photographer based in Macroom, Co Cork uses his keen eye to capture a landscape in his semi-abstract images, he is also a well known photographer of musicans

During her early painting career Mary Breach she was successful in The Royal Hibernian Academy, The Oireachtas and three solo shows in Dublin. She then had a five year block during which she filled the time with study and lots of travel. Soon after moving to Sneem, Co. Kerry (in 1997) Mary’s painting returned along with poetry.

A mostly self-taught artist John Morris was born in Dublin in 1958 and has been painting since the 1990’s. He describes his paintings as being ‘‘about light and the effects of light on objects such as figures, water, landscape;they are about minute colour changes’’ He aims not to record but to evoke ‘‘evoke just a moment’’

an award winning illustrator and renowned contemporary artist, Gary Benfield was born in England and now lives in Kerry on the Iveragh peninsula. His subjects vary from human figures and scenes to horses, hares and foxes which while tinged with mystery, also appear particularly present , often caught in movement and redolent with atmosphere

As well as original works, a selection of limited edition prints are available i the gallery .