Artwall Exhibition ‘Soaked to the Skin’

Delighted to be showing a collection of en plein air shoreline studies and studio paintings in Leitrim Design House. The ARTWALL exhibition runs all through May and June 2025. It’s a beautiful place to show work, hanging alongside a stunning collection of contemporary Irish arts and crafts, so worth a visit

Leitrim Desigh House Curator and artist Laura Gallagher and artist Heather Byrne with her Soaked to the Skin collection

‘Capturing a sense of being in the landscape
is what I hope to bring into my drawing and painting’

GLASGOW ART FAIR

Thanks to everyone who visited me at Reveal Art Fair 2023 in Glasgow, in May… especially those who stopped to chat and bought my work and shared why a certain painting had an immediate connection with them.

i have been drawing and painting at the Barmouth beach, near Castlerock for the last five years… a favourite place to sketch with curlews and gulls on the shoreline, wind in the dunes, bleached stretches of water overhung with a changing dominant sky and the salty seaweed smells at low tide.

..other art things

I was a wildcard on Sky Arts Landscape Artist of The Year 2021, and 2022, and enjoyed having a chat about colour with the brilliant painter and judge Tai Shan Schierenberg, (above).