It’s been a busy time creatively, so I am currently updating my website with new work now available.  This work can be viewed now on Instagram at @joni_finnegan until I am up and ready, which will be shortly.

You can contact me at 087 6680581 or [email protected]

Recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award 2023

142nd RUA exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast 2023 

Arts Council Awarded Art Residency, Lyon, France, Summer 2024

I am an artist born and raised in Galway on the west coast of Ireland where I am based, and I hold a BA in Fine Art from ATU Galway.   

My visual style is inspired by the rich and diverse world around me, not just physically, but how it affects me psychologically.  I use the visual elements to influence but not dictate my paintings, using them as points of departure to tell my own visual story.  

I work in acrylics and each painting is a snapshot of a captured memory, or a feeling, and the colours and shapes that these memories or feelings evoke.  The painting then develops organically from there, the memories distilled as it develops on my easel.

By simplifying the shapes and elements of the landscape, and using bold colours, there is a sense of mystery and ambiguity to my work, drawing viewers into a world of abstraction while captivating the imagination.

Collaboration with Connemara Carpets, an artisan of handmade wool and silk rugs and wall-hangings, creating a series of wall-hangings for their new collection.  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

September 2023 – ‘As I See It’- Clifden Arts Festival

Summer 2022 – ‘Sunchyme’ Shorelines Arts Festival

Summer 2019 – ‘Connemara Chroma’, Wisconsin, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Currently exhibiting at Anú Art Collective, Barna 

Ties that Bind, 126 Gallery, January 2025

OXO, Outset Gallery, December 2024

Summer Show, The Kenny Gallery, Galway, Summer 2024

2024 Summer Open, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare

142nd Annual Royal Ulster Academy exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast October to January 2024

Outset Gallery OXO, December 2023

Summer Open, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Summer 2023

Outset Gallery, December 2022

GALWAY EMERGES, Galway International Arts Festival Summer 2022 at the Kenny Gallery, Galway

REGENERATION, Clifden Arts Festival, September

Engage Studios Summer Show part of Galway International Arts Festival

Summer Exhibition Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, 2022

Artist’s Eye – Exhibition and Publication – July 2022

Follow me on Instagram where you can see my new work as it is created.  http://www.instagram.com/joni_finnegan