Frank O’Dea is a Dublin based artist and is owner/director of Balla Bán Art Gallery based in the Westbury Mall, just off Grafton Street in Dublin City. Frank’s likes to work in oils and regular themes include cafe/bar scenes, musicans, fashion models and quirky subject matters. He also likes to paint lunar landscapes a

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Barry Leighton-Jones was born in London, England in 1932 and is a direct descendant of the Victorian artist and President of the Royal Academy, Lord Frederic Leighton. He began his artistic career at the age of five by winning a major art competition, and later completed seven years of academic training at Sidcup and B

Robert “Bobby” Ballagh (born 22 September 1943) is an Irish artist, painter and designer. He was born in Dublin and studied at the Bolton Street College of Technology. His painting style was strongly influenced by pop art. He is particularly well known for his hyperealistic renderings of well known Irish literary, hist

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Roy Wallace is well known throughout Ireland and internationally for painting Irish characters and pictures of the Old Wild West. Roy describes his recent paintings as ‘surrealistic’ each telling a story based on a curious juxtaposition of characters. His themes on Hollywood movies, jazz musicians, The Beatles, Elvis,

Born in Dublin, Norman Teeling is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland. He received a Degree in Art and his teaching credential and taught Art in many colleges in Dublin for over 12 years. In the early 1980’s he took up painting full-time. He was initially fascinated with water colour

Tom Byrne was born in Dublin in 1962. He studied at Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, where he trained in the Bauhaus tradition. His strong interest in current affairs together with his punk mentality have blended to create an artist in tune with the world around him – who depicts the controversies in Irish politics with a commanding, humorous outlook.

Born in Dublin, George is a European painter. From Irish, Cornish and Breton Stock, he can call on a rich tradition of North European angst. Soutine is mentioned when people talk of influences, but the artist himself would consider Egon Schiele or George Rouault nearer the truth. Perhaps George is described best by Ger

Thein Han (1910-1986) was a major Yangon (in Burma) painter of the post-World War II era who produced a number of memorable works and who had an abiding influence on the evolution of the more conservative painting styles in Burma in the decades that followed. Thein Han was one of the six original apprentices who lived with and studied under Ba Nyan after Ba Nyan returned …