THE GALLERY @ ABBEYLEIX LIBRARY

proudly presents

Colours in My Life

Growing up on a family farm in Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny, Frances was immersed in the beauty of nature and the outdoors from a young age.  Much of her early life was spent helping out on the farm and Frances has fond memories as a child drawing pencil sketches on pieces of paper torn from beet-pulp bags whilst sitting on bales of hay in the shed.

Frances’s love of art and nature has always shaped her life and she was fortunate to integrate these passions, initially, into her teaching career at Scoil Mhuire Abbeyleix, and now as a full-time artist.  Since leaving the school environment,  Frances embraced the opportunity to fully focus on developing her craft as an artist and has greatly benefitted from attending the Art, Craft & Design Course at LOETB, Abbeyleix, where she gained invaluable experience and honed her skills as an artist.

Frances built a custom-designed art studio at Oldglass in 2021 where she now enjoys developing and exploring artistic styles and techniques and deliver a variety of art workshops and classes to interested art groups and also more relaxed Art, Yoga & Prosecco sessions.

Where possible, Frances loves to paint on-site where she can fully immerse herself in the embrace of nature with it’s ever-changing energy, light and colour.  She enjoys capturing nature en-plein-air at local woodlands and lakes close to home in Laois and also at coastal locations around Co. Wexford.  She loves to interpret the seasonal variations that nature continually provides through experimentation and the use of vibrant colours, textures and light in her artwork.

The exhibition Colours in my Life, showcases a variety of landscapes, seascapes, horizons, skylines, shorelines, woodlands, farmlands, fantastic trees and colourful flowers that Frances has captured in the past year.

Frances’s Exhibition can be viewed for the month of June.    You are most welcome to come and see this beautiful exhibition for yourself!