Patrick Copperwhite was born in Helen Street, Galway. He went to St. Joseph's College and graduated from UCG with a degree in Science in 1959. He worked for a time with I.C.I. in England, in mining in Zambia and South Africa, and as a teacher in Nigeria. Copperwhite returned to Ireland in 1965 and married two years later. He built his own studio/gallery onto the family home and while he did a great deal of work there, he much preferred to paint outdoors, especially in Connemara. His response to the landscape is immediate with a fairly rapid application of paint, sometimes in impasto fashion, using knife or brush. At other times he resorts to thinner, more tonal application of paint, using quick brush strokes to achieve the essentia...