Sheelyn Browne gallery opens in Westport

INTO PRINT Sheelyn Browne in her print gallery at her home in Westport.  Pic: Paul Mealey

Artist Sheelyn Browne has just opened her own print gallery at her home on Lower Quay Road, Westport, where her woodcut and linocut prints are now on display to the public.
Browne, daughter of the late Lord Altamont Jeremy Brown of Westport House,  studied Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, graduating with a Bachelor of Design in 1987. It was at NCAD that she became interested in relief cut printmaking, primarily in the forms of woodcut and linocut, which is one of the earliest techniques of illustration invented. She was drawn to the way the technique allows her to start out in three-dimensional mode, with knife and block of wood in hand, and end up with a two-dimensional artwork – a print.
Brown’s earliest influences were the works of the 18th-century Japanese woodcut artists. However, the German Expressionists were always and continue to be her biggest influences – artists like Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Emil Nolde being favourites.
The artist has had solo exhibitions of her work in both The Bank of Ireland Arts Centre in Dublin and in Blackburn House in Liverpool. Her works include some famous Irish writer portraits, as well as figurative and wildlife-themed images.

For more information, visit www.sheelynbrowne.com, or contact Sheelyn Browne on sheelyn.browne@gmail.com.