Name: Art Workshop with Brigid Birney
Start: 2025-02-02T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-02T12:30:00+00:00
Location: Bundoran Community Centre

Come join us for a fun-filled Art Workshop with the incredibly talented Brigid Birney
About this Event

Brigid Birney

Originally from Donegal and now living in Leitrim, Brigid studied Graphic Design at Letterkenny Institute of Technology (Now ATU). Her love of Fine Art took over from Graphic Design and she has been painting and exhibiting throughout Ireland for the past twenty years. She has combined her role of mother with painting primarily in oils and acrylics. ‘’Colour Light and Movement encapsulate Brigid’s work. Under the guidance of her hands, flowers burst open and display their grandeur. Pulsating with energy, her work is a feast for the eyes’’.

I observe first, then paint from memory. I would describe my work as spontaneous and try to portray the vibrancy of life. This allows me freedom in the application of the paint while covering the canvas with feelings and imagination.

Most recently she was commissioned by Knock Shrine to paint the backdrop to the Crib in their Parish Church. Herstory, who focus on promoting famous Irish Women selected a painting of St Brigid to feature in their City Exhibition where Irish art was projected in large scale onto famous Irish Buildings. Her painting was projected and illuminated the GPO for the first weekend of February, celebrating St Brigid and her strength and the strength of women in Ireland who changed the face of Ireland. Her work also decorates Neven Maguires’ MacNean House and Restaurant, since their refurbishment and has resulted in her work being more widely exhibited. In recent years her work was selected by the Donegal Diaspora to present to winners of the Donegal Diaspora Person of the Year Award. These people included Tom O’Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, (son of the late Tip O’ Neill), and Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana.

Her work has featured in various Interior Magazines including Ireland's Homes Interiors and Living, Ulster Tatler, Galway Now, Upstairs Downstairs and recently Irish Country Magazine. Her work also was featured in a book by Photographer Mike Bunn which featured Leitrim Artists.

Brigid has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland in both solo and group shows at various galleries including Bold Art Gallery, Galway, N17 Art Gallery, Tuam, Clan Art Gallery, Enniskillen, The Cristeph Art Gallery, Letterkenny, and The Crooked House Art Gallery, Donegal Town. Her work is currently available in Hambly and Hambly Art Gallery at Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Kennys of Lahinch Art Gallery, Lahinch, The Leitrim Design House, Carrick on Shannon. Her studio is open and work can be viewed by appointment.

In October 2022 Brigid completed her Diploma in Holistic Integrated Creative Art Therapy and is currently using this qualification as another dimension to her career as an Artist.