Ann Daly

Wild Atlantic Way- Oil on Board 

Ann Daly is a landscape artist based in County Clare and graduated from the College of Marketing and Design, Dublin in 1992.  She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and most recently in the Limerick City Gallery and The Bourne Gallery University of Limerick.  She is a permanent member of Contact Studios, Limerick since 2013 and teaches oil painting classes in Quay Arts, Killaloe.     

Daly works primarily in oils, in what is an immersive process working layer over layer, wet on wet often using wax to develop a thick impasto effect energising her palette knife and brush strokes.  She is drawn to working with contrasts of dark and light referencing her own powerful images and childhood memories of the West of Ireland with emphasis on capturing the atmospheric light and fleeting moments the Atlantic weather dictates.   

Her work is inspired by the layered and rough brush technique of older masters as well as more contemporary artists such as Donald Teskey and Paddy Graham.