Clare Cryan - Artist Info

About Clare Cryan

  • Biography

    Clare Cryan was born in Dublin and studied painting at the National College of Art (NCA) in Dublin and the Belfast College of Art. She was appointed Master of the Preliminary School of the NCA in 1965 but later resigned to develop her own work, and continues to teach privately, working with Kenneth Webb in the Irish School of Landscape Painting.

    In 1971 she founded the Blue Door Studio, and many of her pupils have made an impact on the Irish art world.

    She held her first solo show in Belfast, and since then has had many solo exhibitions in Wexford, Dublin, in England and Galway. Her work has featured regularly in t...

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