Title: Michelle O' Brien

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 13x9cm approx

Year: 2005

Description: Michelle O' Brien is a traditional musician from Co.Clare. This portrait of Michelle is part of a series of eight
miniature paintings, exhibited in the Ashford Gallery of the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, titled Chrysalis after Leonardo De Vinci.

Title: Christ after Velàzquez

Medium: oil on wood with gold leaf

Size: 10.5x8.5cm x 2

Year: 2005

Description: Valazquez's interpretation of the crucifixion, whilst using a universal image of suffering, is unique. My focus
is on the portrait detail of Christ as he surrenders to death. I painted these works traditionally on
a hand-primed wooden panel. The second work is a monochromatic interpretation of the same oil-painting detail,
with added gold leaf.

Title: Lucy the 'baby'' ape

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 30.5 cm x 20.5cm

Year: 2005

Description: Thanks to Una Smyth and the Education Team at Dublin Zoo I was allowed to touch this little hand-reared primate
in the arms of her Keeper. It seemed to me from sketching there, that all her public during this time,
including me, adored her.

Title: Musician John Spillane

Medium: oil on canvas

Size: 20cmx20cm

Year: 2005

Description: John Spillane is a singer and songwriter from Co. Cork.

Title: The Piéta (after Delacroix)

Medium: oil on wood

Size: 10.5 x 8.5

Description: Discovering Eugene Delacroix's unique sense of colour and romantic imagery in my first year of art college and then
later in 1995 chancing upon an exhibition of his travel journals, at the Institut Du Monde Arabe in Paris, I am often struck by
the accomplishment of his work.

Title: Man with eyes closed no.3

Medium: oil on board

Size: 15.5cmx15cm

Year: 2006

Description: This portrait and two more works of a friend in the same series, were inspired by my seeing Albrecht Durer's
sensitive painting of his father in the National Gallery of London in 2005. Interested in artistic influences throughout art history,
I learned that Durer was also fascinated by Leonardo De Vinci's work.
This painting was exhibited in the RHA Annual open exhibition in 2006.

Title: Girl with a pearl earring (after Vermeer)

Medium: Oil on hand-primed wooden panel

Size: 9cm x 10cm

Description: So after studying oil painting techniques I took a more direct approach and began to paint in miniature on
various surfaces, old wood panels, tin and leather. This work was inspired by my reading "The girl with a pearl earring"
by Tracy Chevalier and the original artwork by Johannes Vermeer born in 1632.

Title: Paul Kelly

Medium: oil on wood panel

Size: 10.5cm x 8.5cm

Description: Paul Kelly is a well-known Irish multi-instrumentalist musician from Tallaght in Co.Dublin.

Title: Frankie Lane

Medium: oil on wood panel

Size: 10.5cm x 8.5cm

Description: My portrait of Frankie Lane is influenced by the tonal and realist work of Gustave Courbet.
Frankie Lane is a renowned musician and performer living in Co. Kildare and originally from Co. Meath.

Title: Portrait of a girl (after Delacroix)

Medium: oil on wood panel

Size: 10.5cm x 8.5cm

Description: My miniature detail is from "Girl seated in a Cemetary", a work painted by Delacroix in 1824.

Title: Self-portrait

Medium: oil on wood panel

Size: 10.5cm x 8.5cm

Description: I painted this work on an old hand-primed wooden lid directly from life in a day.