Patrick Walshe

Born in Ennis in 1952, Patrick Walshe has had a long and at times nomadic career as a professional painter going back to his first showing with The Tom Caldwell Gallery, Dublin in 1978.
He was educated at Glenstal Abbey and Trinity College Dublin.
At the height of Ireland's economic gloom in 1982, Patrick Walshe decamped to New York where he worked and exhibited as part of the East Village scene of that era.
In 1986 he moved to Los Angeles where he lived and worked for a further six years. He has exhibited widely in the U.S. over thirty years. He moved back to Ireland in 1993 via a circuitous route that took in India, Indonesia and several African countries and now lives with his family in the Wicklow Mountains.He has had numerous exhibitions both in Ireland and overseas since his return.

Chronology1952 Born in Ennis, County Clare, in the West of Ireland on the 25th November and ran wild for 12 years in a town that was then only partly in the 20th century.1964 After a grounding and a hidng at the Christian Brothers, had the good fortune of being sent to the Benedictine school of Glenstal Abbey, which has proved to be one of the most enduring influences on my life. "It is not so much what you do as the spirit with which you do it." It was also the time of a great artistic "renaissance" within the school which was not altogether to the liking of the parents.1970 Became a student in Trinity College, Dublin at a time when Dublin tardily caught on to the swinging 60's. Won first prize at the annual Art Society exhibition and then became president of what was probably the most anarchic society on campus, being known solely for what would now be known as "raves"in it's dungeons behind the college.1974 Graduated with an Honours degree in Business and was promptly advised to emigrate if I wanted a job. Withdrew on welfare to the Wicklow countryside to paint.1975 First exhibition in Dublin at the Tom Caldwell Gallery and remember being encouraged at the time by the painter Patrick Scott .1976 Won an Italian Government scholar...

2016. Origin, Fitzwilliam St. Dublin 2

2015. 84 Orchard Street New York 10002. .

2014. Art Hub, Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi,


2012. Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin,


2011. Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, Dublin,


2009. Russborough House (courtesy The Sir Alfred Beit Foundation), Wicklow

2009. The Orangery, Holland Park, London.

2008. Russborough House (courtesy of S.A.B.F.)


2007. Tramyard Gallery, Dalkey, Dublin.


2006. Millpond Gallery, Long Grove , Illinois,


1996. Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin


1992. Renata Beuhler Gallery, North Wells Street, Chicago

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1991. Wiltshire Tower Gallery, Los Angeles


1990. River North Gallery, North Wells Street, Chicago


1985, Hannaford-Rose Gallery, Beulahland, Avenue A, New York


1978. Tom Caldwell, Baggot Street Dublin.