Liam Treacy is a Wicklow artist who has been painting in an impressionist style since the 1950s. He exhibits regularly with the James Gallery, Dalkey, and has participated in a wide range of group shows including the annual RHA exhibitions and the Wexford Opera Festival.

Source: Auctions

Liam Treacy (1934 Avoca, County Wicklow - 2004)
Liam Treacy was born in Avoca, County Wicklow where he lived all his life. He started painting in 1950s, while confined to bed recovering from tuberculosis. During this time at the hospital he was introduced to the sculptor Yann Renard Goulet who taught him everything he knew about painting and drawing and about Claude Monet in particular, who was to influence Treacy's work more than any other artist. By 1956 Treacy was painting en plen air around his beloved Wicklow county and started developing a distinctive impressionist style. His luminous work reflected the moods and colors of the constantly changing familiar Irish countryside. He exhibited for the first time in 1956 and soon many other shows followed in galleries across Ireland and abroad. Despite his success as a painter he never focused on a professional artistic career until 1978 when he decided to become a full time artist. Throughout his life Treacy taught art in night-time classes in Arklow Community College, Abbey Community College, Wicklow and at Shelton Open Detention Centre where he held art classes for the prisoners until 1995.