IMELDA Healy
Artist
Imelda Healy is a painter from Dublin who has exhibited in Ireland and California. A 2001 graduate of NCAD and founder member of Brunswick Mills Studios, she also founded Berkeley Alley Studios in LA with five women painters and Tondo, a Dublin-based art group.
A former member of Dublin's Monster Truck gallery and studios from 2006-2009 , she is represented by The Lime Lane Gallery and Trinity Gallery in Dublin.
Imelda teaches part time at the IADT college of art. She recently taught drawing at the National Gallery of Ireland. The artist has had numerous shows in Ireland and the US, most recently two solo shows at the Clifden Arts Festival in 2017 and 2018. Her work is in many private and public collections, including Trinity College Dublin, The National Library, the Franciscan community at Merchants Quay and the Rotunda hospital. She has had many commissions for portraits, including from Neil and Brenda Jordan and Paul McGuinness.
Paintings
Labor Day Beach
Looking at You
In the Foam
Malibu Venus
Along the Sand
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.
As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull
The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be-
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.
They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?- Imelda's BlogMay 10, 2019This month it's my birthday and I got a trip to London for my present! Bill and I stayed with friends in Chelsea, a college friend of Bill's -who got us tickets for the Tate Modern - Tate Britain. First stop Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) at the modern, i feel I know him as an old friend I've been a...April 25, 2019Last week I went to Milan, I was excited at the chance to visit the famous Brera art museum and the contemporary art Foundation Prada. So the first morning after a perfect Milanese coffee and croissant at an open air cafe on the Piazza Doumo, I headed for the nearby Pinacoteca (from the Greek for...March 28, 2019
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