Dermot O'Grady

Dermot O'Grady was born in 1969 in Manchester, England and now lives in rural Ireland.
After a career in I.T. Dermot began painting in 2012 and in that year took 1st place in The Irish Show Societies All Ireland Amateur

painting competition.
Dermot has sold to several private collectors in the UK, and the USA

"I moved from the UK to live in rural Ireland in 2010. I found this landscape very different from Manchester, the pace was very different,

the clarity of light, the colours were more vivid, the intensity of the greens alone are unlike anywhere else on earth.

Initially I tried painting the local farm animals, It gave me a starting point and I had fun but felt I wasn't quite on track.

I eventually realised that what I wanted to paint was something much less tangible. I started to play with Abstract or more acuratly non-

representational art.

Leaving representational art behind was a liberating process and opened the door to a freedom of expression.
There's a kind of purity to not having to paint "something else" but just paint and let the painting itself become the object.

As I continue to paint I see with increasing clarity the direction my art is taking.
I think of my paintings as depicting ...

Dermot studied 3D design in Cardiff and graduated with an Hons Degree in 1993

2013 Pop-up Exhibition, Wexford Opera Festival
2013 Green Acres Gallery, Wexford.
2012 The Market Place, Rosslare Strand.
2012 Irish Shows Association All Ireland Amateur Painter. 1st place.


1993 BA Hons in 3D Design in Cardiff