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Samuel Chantoiseau has practised photography for fifteen years. His work concentrates principally on reportage in black and white. He has regularly visited the Sahara and has sojourned there for a few months at a time. While in the Sahara Samuel experienced profound moments of closeness with the Touaregs, ‘The People of the Sahara’.

Samuel has captured these images while travelling the velvety yet bold heart of these desert lands.
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Paddy O’Connor has been painting watercolours for the past fifteen years, in addition to practicing as an orthodontist. He is an exhibiting member of the Maclise Arts Society, Cork Arts Society and the Medical Arts Society. In his local art group he has the enviable record of always being the best seller!

His greatest claim to fame is his ongoing participation in the John Yardley watercolour course which takes place annually in Dedham and Norfolk (Constable country). Many claim that Yardley is amongst the world’s finest watercolourists and this is reflected in the eleven year waiting list to attend his art courses. This meeting with such a select grouping must have some beneficially contagious effects.

Rita O’Connell is graduate of Crawford College of Art and a teacher of art for 24 years. She has exhibited in the Lavit Gallery, Cork, in Lismore and has held a solo exhibition in Limerick.

Rita attends classes at the Alliance Française to smooth her many visits to France. Changing Pla

ces, Changing Colours is the fruit of many such holidays and of wandering around Ireland – from Provence to Connemara. The colours of nature are her inspiration as well as engagement with the paint itself.

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Thierry Miramon is a figurative painter with an exceptional sense of observation. His paintings incorporate scenes of everyday life – crowd, the animated settings found in cafes, concert halls and bull fighting arenas. From these moments, he highlights the tender, the amusing, the positive. He uses mainly primary colours in his playful and mischievous work.

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