John Ironside

John Ironside
A professional Digital Artist, based in Wexford, John Ironside opened his first studio in 1976, creating imagery for commercial and industrial use. He has continued this work from then right up to the present day. Self taught, he has worked with black and white, colour negative and colour positive film, using small, medium and large format camera equipment. John is renowned (well known?) for his portrait work as well as his extensive portfolio of nature and landscape imagery. His work has been published extensively in print media, TV and in exhibitions here in Ireland as well as London and Paris.
John’s work has recently taken an exciting new and more abstract direction. He has begun to exhibit publicly, for the first time, his passion for a more abstract, highly textured and vividly coloured, type of digital art, which gives him greater freedom to explore the many varied colours, patterns and textures of the natural world. Born in the beautiful Caribbean island of Trinidad, John grew up surrounded by raw unspoilt nature, the tropical jungle and the abundant wildlife, all of which has remained a constant influence on him and his work. His later life in Ireland brought an appreciation of a more subtle, mellow, dapp...

Mount St Benedict, Trinidad, West Indies
Pointe-a-Piere, Trinidat, West Indies
Wexford, Ireland

EXHIBITIONS

YEAR EXHIBITION / VENUE
2004 5D Snap Shots Group Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
2005 Wexford Viking Festival, Wexford Quay Side
2005 Healing Arts Exhibition, Wexford General Hospital
2005 5D “Ofrenda”Arts in the Abbey Group Exhibition, Dunbrody Abbey
2005 5D Wexford Book Fair Group Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
2005 Luscious Hues Wexford Opera Festival - Wexford VEC
2005 Tall Ships, Low Horizons , Hook Lighthouse

2006 Healing Arts Exhibition, Wexford General Hospital
2006 5D Spring forward Group Exhibition, Wexford Arts Centre
2006 5D Wexford Book Fair group exhibition,Wexford Arts Centre
2006 1 in 4 Charity Exhibition, Dublin
2006 Luscious Hues, Selskar Abbey – Wexford Opera Festival
2006 Wexford Hospital Fund Raiser (Auction) Talbot Hotel

2007 Healing Arts Exhibition (Luscious Hues), Wexford General Hospital
2007 Limestone in Karst (Burren), Ailwee Caves
2007 GRA Fund Raiser (Auction), Dublin
2007 Showcase, RDS Dublin
2007 Wexford Halloween Fest Craft Fair, Wexford Chamber of Commerce
2007 Halloween Show (Tall Ships / Luscious hues), Riverbank House Hotel, Wexford
2007 1 in 4 Charity Exhibition, Dublin
2017 Tall Ships, Low Horizons, Hook Lighthouse

2008 Rosslare Harbour Mar...