Val Byrne Blogs

ANOTHER WAY OF SEEING THINGS. Why do visual artists paint single images ? What is the story behind the subject ? Why did he paint it the way that he did, traditional, abstract, graphical, cubist, etc ? Probably mainly to communicate a feeling, a... 

Welcome to My Ireland I was born in Dublin and attended University College Dublin graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. After a short spell of working in London I returned to Ireland and set up an architectural practice which was ... 

I painted this watercolour a few years ago at a demonstration workshop/ exhibition which was called Panoptic . About six artists with different skills were each given one hour to set up, paint and complete a painting of their choice. The above paint...