Born in Belfast in 1965 Bradley's early work was inspired by the ten years he lived and worked in Dublin in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s. Many of his paintings from this time show strong, confident women from the modelling and fashion world that he mixed in. Bradley's creative eye then turned to the Burlesque dancers of Europe's Belle Epoque before he travelled to NY and studied and painted the Burlesue Dancers he mingled with there. Bradley has now turned his attention on his own country once more and for the first time has concentrated his paintings on men, depicting characters based on Ireland's hardworking docker industry and the Sailortown area around Belfast which saw it's heyday over 100 years ago and culminated with the building of the White Star's magnificent Titanic. Terry's artistic style is dominated by bold, individual images of people and faces that have an innate sense of purpose that exude charisma. Despite being a established artist for many years now Terry himself feels he is just starting out and his work is going from strength to strength.

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In the last few years, the previously unknown JP Rooney has so captivated the hearts of art collectors in his native Ireland that he has become the country's best selling artist. Rooney's work was first launched in November 1997 with a sell-out show. Since then his work has been sold to collectors all over the world. He is well priced in a buoyant market that currently seeks new heroes and fresh investment opportunities, he has entered centre stage at a time when Irish art is in the ascendancy. Rooney's work has grown in confidence over the last few years. It is looser, bolder, more directly narrative and has greater dramatic content than its more abstract predecessors. It has become more detailed, as his figures move increasingly into the foreground. His palette is more adventurous, his brush strokes more authoritative and his compositions more assured. His themes are universal. He depicts human relationships, located within their physical and social environments. Collectors have queued to buy his work and gallery owners have formed waiting lists to host exhibitions. Publishing houses have made repeated offers to issue his work in a variety of formats.

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Dominic is a digital photography enthusiast from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Self taught he focus's his interest on shooting landscapes from around Ireland and beyond. Watching and photographing the sun rise and set gives him a unique view of the world around us and he tries to capture some this with his pictures. Dominic uses a variety of digital techniques to try to convey the mood of a scene such as using muted colours or overlaying textures as well as high contrast black and white and sepia finishes. More recently he has begun using high dynamic range digital techniques for various types of shot to capture the full colour and light range of a scene which often gives a strange, almost oil painting effect. A wider range of his work can be viewed on his website; www.domhartphotography.com

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Gladys McCabe was born in Randalstown, Co. Antrim, to an artistic couple - her mother Elizabeth was a designer in the linen business, and her father George Chalmers, a former army officer, was an artist specialising in calligraphy and illumination. One of her ancestors was a famous 18th century Scottish painter, Sir George Chalmers. She had a picture published in the Royal Drawing Society's magazine when she was 16 years old and went on to study at the Belfast College of Art. In 1941 she married fellow artist and musician, the late Max McCabe. Gladys and Max exhibited together on many occasions, starting in Ireland at Robinson & Cleaver in Belfast, 1942, and in England at the Kensington Art Gallery in 1949. Gladys formed the Ulster Society of Women Artists in 1957, and she and her husband were members of the Ulster Contemporary Group which included Dan O'Neill, George Campbell and Gerard Dillon (q.q.v.). In 1961 she was elected a Member of the ROI, and she is also a Royal Ulster Academician, a Fellow of the Royal Fine Arts Society, and has received many honours including the 1984 World Culture Prize. Gladys McCabe was a fashion and arts correspondent in the 1960s, working for both newspapers and television. Examples of her work are in The Ulster Museum, The Royal Ulster Academy, The Arts Council of Ireland Collection, The Imperial War Museum and many other permanent collections

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Passionate about her subject matter and her chosen medium, Mary Ann conveys her deep curiosity about the natural world using the most fluid and exciting of mediums, watercolour, with a sure touch, based on a lifetime of drawing. The only rules Mary Ann sets herself, apart from integrity of line and absolute freedom concern quality of materials. Only 100% acid-free paper and the most lightfast pigments are used in paintings. A country dweller, living and working in the hills of Northumberland, Mary Ann is immersed in the natural world and her leisure time is dominated by the countryside and seasons, from hill walking to poultry keeping and gardening to watching hounds follow scent and falcons hunting in the sky to helping neighbours out during lambing time, dipping sheep and dressing lambs for the autumn sales. Mary Ann is also a keen cellist, who plays Northumbrian, Scottish and Shetland music regularly with a group of fellow music lovers who occasionally perform for local functions as ‘Cross the Wannies’, named after a local craggy outcrop.

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Sue's work has become established in the art world over a number of years. She has been voted best selling female artist several times by the Fine Art Trade Guild, and has consistently been in the "top ten". She has always experimented with her art, which has kept her work fresh and in demand. Sue's original paintings and limited edition prints are highly sought after.

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Thulines paintings of cows and animals reflects how she likes to observe animals; "their shapes, gestures and mannerisms and in developing my ideas I take them quite often out of their context. In my work I explore the possibilities of bringing the subjects in and out of focus. Composition plays an important role in my paintings and I sometimes use perspective to distort images. I like using bold colours." "I enjoy the gathering of information as much as I do the painting. Cows are funny creatures. Just like humans, they have their own characters - their faces show expressions and a curiosity that never stops to amaze and fascinate me.”

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Sam is an original member of the Ulster Watercolour Society (UWS) and has been painting watercolours of scenes around the North Antrim Coast for more years than he wishes to remember. Now in his eighties, Sam can still be found working along the North Antrim Coast. He prefers to work outdoors to ensure he accurately captures the particular scene he is working on. His paintings are in constant demand from galleries and art collectors at home and overseas with his oils being rare treasures.

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Only 24 years old, Francis McCrory is one of Ireland's most exciting young artists. A Fine Arts Graduate of the University of Ulster, he has received awards for 'Best Emerging Artist'...twice!...the Diageo Award in 2006, and again in 2007 with the prestigious KPMG Award for Best Emerging Artist at the Royal Ulster Academy Exhibition.His first two shows at Belfast's Belmont Tower and The Emer Gallery the year after, were sell-outs, and he already included in a number of major private collections. His style is unique, powerful, challenging. He creates breath-taking and poignant mixed media assembleges which compel the viewer to consider urban decay and neglect in a different light. His paintings and subject matter reflect francis' artistic influences....the haunting canvases of Edward Hopper, the urban waselands of Scottish artist Jock McFadyen, and the raw documentary style of American photographers, Stephen Shore and Joel Sternfeld. Francis' works are original, highly competent and boldly painted; their intriguing and sometimes lonely horizons convey an ambiguous mood. They are not just a deadpan depiction of the actual. They reflect that critical balance betweenseeing and feeling which the very best documentary artists seek to achieve.

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Born in Nigeria, West Africa, Ken returned to Ireland at the age of eleven where he eventually went to Art College in Belfast. Rejecting the trends of so called contemporary art, he has sought to restore some of the ancient values of painting now discarded by so many. His paintings do not openly deal with the angst of the artist’s own soul or with the “human condition” but rather seem to be a celebration of the visual pleasures of the world in which we live. By pointing towards these pleasures he is also reminding us of their fleeting nature, not to create in us a sense of despair but so that we may savour the moment and enrich our lives by taking our time and drawing our attention to them.

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This talented local watercolour artist has been attracting rave reviews throughout Ireland over the past few years. Likened to the popular Sam McLarnon, a feat in itself, Paul has recently been accepted in to the prestigious Ulster Watercolour Society. Paul’s delicate use of colours captures the wonderful landscapes and views available to all of us that remain mostly as memories as we travel throughout this wonderful countryside. Concentrating mainly on the coastlines of Antrim and the hills of Donegal his work has become a popular choice of gift for the many visitors to Ireland and can be seen in many of the countries leading Galleries. Perhaps what will astonish most people is that this talented artist is in fact colour blind, but perhaps that adds a little something extra to his work!

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Born in Northern Ireland in 1964 and has lived around the Hillsborough area all his life. From an early age he began sketching and painting, developing a natural talent, and although he has had many major influences from both the Irish and European art world, he has developed his own distinctive style. He is now a full time artist and has had several successful exhibitions - having exhibited in the Royal Ulster Academy and also the British Isles. His paintings are in private collections throughout Ireland and the USA.

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49 year old William has rekindled his love for art in recent years. A passion that started as a child dwindled for a few years, until recently when William lifted a brush again. This time around he is more determined than ever to get his art shown and his career moving in the right direction. William has a talent for capturing the raw emotions of people, and to that extent is a very adept portrait artist. However he has recently started to paint city scenes, focusing on his native Belfast, and has been experimenting with a variety of different styles and medums.

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Born in Belfast, 1985. Anna moved to Glasgow to study a BA Honours in Fine Art, painting and printmaking at the Glasgow school of art. Anna specializes in figurative painting, mostly adopting the female image from fashion magazines, using this artificial image to create drawings and paintings from. 'In many cases I try to manipulate the figure addessing the idea of 'beauty' and the idealization of the 'perfect' image. This also lead me on to the idea of narcissism and the idea of multiple personalities'. Anna began to paint dogs when studying in Los Angeles in 2006. 'A place I found surrounded by consumerism and artificiality. The dog was used as an accessory to compliment many woman's handbags, accompanied with colour coded costumes, it became quite a surreal image. However, I do enjoy the quirky personalities my dogs seem to adopt'. Anna has exhibited several times in Belfast, including the Ulster Artists Association were she was awarded a prize for artistic merit. 'True Colours' exhibition at the Waterfront Hall and at the University of Ulster. Anna has also exhibited in the Newbury Gallery, Glasgow. And in Tijuana, Mexico - 'Lost Streams; The first frontier was the waters edge'.

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A geography graduate of Queen's University Belfast, Pat has taught at both primary and secondary levels. Married to architect Bernard McGuinness she has five children and lives and works in North Belfast. Pat is a member of the Ulster Woman Artists. She has participated in joint exhibitions in a variety of venues including Malone House, Waterfront Hall and The Island Arts Centre and has had solo exhibitions in Frame Academy and La Boca restaurant, Belfast. Pat works in oils and pastels and her subject matter is mostly portraits and figures. Her favourite subjects are African mothers and their children and musicians with their instruments. She takes commissions for portraits of adults, children and family pets.

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Kathryn grew up by the sea in picturesque Whitehead. Inspired by the ever-changing sea and sky surrounding her, she began attempting to capture the formations of cloud and differing light effects through the mediums of paint and photography. A school trip to the Ulster Museum to view their art collections prompted her to enroll on a variety of art courses where she explored a range of acrylic and oil painting techniques. Whilst quietly developing her artistic talents, she qualified as a teacher and taught art to primary school childen. Encouraged by artistic friends and gallery owners, she has exhibited her paintings at a number of local venues and galleries. The dominent themes in her paintings remain seascapes and landscapes and motivation to paint stems from her love of the natural world and frequent trips to Co. Donegal.

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Born in Dublin in 1952, Eddie Cahill began his tender years with a struggle on his hands, having to acquire food and clothing from and by whatever means available Eddie’s early life brought him to crime to live. Imprisonment was inevitable, during his period of incarceration at Portloiase prison, Professor Brian Maguire NCAD, already an established artist on the Irish Art scene noted the abundant talent that Eddie possessed. Through encouragement Eddie has progressed to becoming a well-established artist on the Irish Art Plateau. With crime firmly behind him Eddie has made Art his life; he has developed a very individual technique and style to produce a selection of sombre, pale gothic like faces, with an almost hidden touch of primary colours, each individual in their own way. After a number of very successful solo and joint exhibitions, Eddie was hosted for the first time north of the border at Manor Fine Arts in Banbridge; where his exhibition, “Walking Through Heads” was a complete sell out with many commissions placed. The demand for Eddie’s work can only be described as “phenomenal” with clients purchasing three or more paintings at a time. Plans are already underway for exhibitions in Dublin, New York and Boston.

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Martin Bradley is an Irish born artist living and working in Ballyclare county Antrim. Born in Belfast in 1955 Martin was accepted into a number of art colleges to study Graphic Design when he left school but unfortunately due to financial restraints he could not attend. He entered into the world of business where as an entrepreneur he has successfully built and developed several companies. Recently Martin has returned to paint again and establish himself as a professional artist in Ireland. His use of strong vibrant colours has created a style that is instantly identifiable. The new collection Martin is working on is titled “Saturday Night” and has been inspired by people he has met during his business travels.

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