Born in Dublin 1925.
Attended school at Alexandra College.
Certificate for South Kensington Drawing Exams, Honours in all subjects.
Studied at National College of Art and Regent Street Polytechnic, London.
Brief, memorable study of landscape with Charles Lamb – met Anne King-Harman, with whom I subsequently shared the studio of Dermod O’Brien PPRHA.
Taught privately and in secondary schools.
Solo exhibitions in 1952 & 1954.
Awarded Purser- Griffith travel bursary in the History of European Painting, TCD.
Six months spent painting landscape, Lettemullen, Co. Galway 1955.
Married William Carron ARHA 1961. One daughter Rachel, residing in New York.
Solo exhibitions in 1957, 1961, 1972, 1976.
Taught in NCAD 1973 – 1984 (Life Class & Print department.)
Two more solo exhibitions in the 1980’s – Taylor Galleries.
Elected a Full Member of the RHA in 1989 and a Member of Aosdána in 1990.
Subsequently, held two solo exhibitions in the United Art Club and the Taylor Galleries.
Exhibited at the Florence Biennale 1999 (award for career work.) during this time I worked in the Graphic Studio, Green St., Dublin.
Royal Hibernian Academy, 2002, A Retrospective exhibition with full colour catalogue and essay by Dr. Julian Campbell.
Collections:
The Ulster Museum; Gordon Lambert Collection; Three Government Departments; National Portrait Collection, Limerick University and Boyle Civic Collection.
Selection from Group Exhibitions:
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual exhibitions 1950 – 2005.
Irish Exhibition of Living Art 1953 – 1967.
Oireachtas 1960 – early 1970s.
Irish Contemporary Art in Germany – 7 artists 1955
Irish Painting, Hugh Lane Gallery, 1963.
Irish Women Artists – 18th century to the present day, National gallery of Ireland, 1987
The Irish Figurists and Figurative Painting in Irish Art Dublin/ London, 1990
Boyle Arts Festival
Art of the State of New Direction, OPW, 1970 – 1985 and 1998.
Florence Biennale, Italy, 1999.
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