School Fight Painting

Peadar Mc Daid has been an artist for over 20 years now and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. For the past four years he has been working for the HSE (West) as an Arts Facilitator at the Create-A-Link Art Centre in Letterkenny. The Create-A-Link Art Centre is a specialist arts programme, which was designed and developed by Peadar for the HSE in 2002 to cater for people recovering from mental ill health who have an interest or talent in the area of arts.
A self-taught artist, Peadar lives and works in his hometown of Letterkenny, his interest in art started back in 1983 when he came upon a copy of the Book of Kells in his school library. He is regarded as one of Irelands foremost Celtic Artists.
Through his commissions he has produced work for Thames Television, Seiko (Ire), Donegal Parian China and Letterkenny Folk Festival as well as works for publication in New York. And has collaborated with Letterkenny sculptor Redmond Herrity in the designing of the Celtic cross public commission for Donegal County council and was a finalist for the Port Bridge round-about public sculpture commission.

In the past few years his work has taken him in a different direction and style. Working with paint he is Influenced by the work of Pablo Picasso, Louis le Brocquy, Klimt, Schiele and Henry Moore .