Susan O’Leary
Contemporary Irish Artist
About Susan
Susan O’ Leary is an artist from Cork, Ireland. She is an honours graduate of the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork. She has been a recipient of various prizes including the Eli Lilly Purchase Prize and the MTU Art Collection Prize. She has participated in a number of group shows over the years and, in recent years, she has shown her work at the Art Source and Art Evolve art fairs in Dublin. Susan’s work was also selected for inclusion in the Society of Women Artists exhibition in the Mall Galleries in London in 2023.
Susan is a painter and works mostly in oil on canvas. The subject matter includes portraiture and figurative works as well as more abstract seascapes and landscapes and she likes to explore different methods of expression in paint.
Shop Prints
Art Inspirations
‘My starting point for a painting may be a person from the past who has inspired me in some way, an old photograph or film still, a fashion photograph in a magazine or simply a line on the horizon. I try to keep an open mind about where it goes from there. I may choose to paint in a very representational way or I can make an image that is more abstract and loose in style.
I have been painting for years and I still do not understand how an image in paint is so much more than a mechanically produced image. I don’t understand the magic but I do know that it is there.’
Some extra print sizes are available on request. Contact me by email: susanolearyartist@gmail.com