1949 -
English born Martin Gale moved to Ireland as a child and studied in Dublin at the National College of Art. His first solo show came just two years after he graduated and was held at the Neptune Gallery in Dublin in 1975. In 1980 Gale represented Ireland at the XI Biennale de Paris, Nice, Lisbon, Fin...
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1909 - 2002
Brigid Ganly was the daughter of the artist Dermod O’Brien who became President of the RHA in the year she was born a position he held till 1944 and spent her early childhood at the family estates in Limerick , Cahirmoyle before the family returned to Dublin in 1919. She attended the Metropolitan ...
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1847 - 1926
Originally from Limerick, Norman Garstin went to Belgium in 1880 and spent two years in Antwerp studying under Charles Verlat. From there he moved to Paris where he came into contact with Edgar Degas and worked for three years in Charles Carolus-Duran’s studio. Garstin exhibited at the RHA continu...
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1894 - 1978
Alethea Garstin was born in Penzance, Cornwall in 1894. She began to paint at the age of 16 and although she never received any formal training, she was predominately taught by her father, the acclaimed painter Norman Garstin, who also taught artists such as Harold Harvey. In 1912, at the tender ag...
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1946 -
Born in London in 1946, Trevor Geoghegan studied at Worthing College of Art, Sussex and later at the Chelsea School of Art, London graduating in 1968. He moved to Ireland in 1971, where he is now based and began lecturing in NCAD from 1978 - 2004 and currently he teaches a painting course at the ...
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