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About Phyllis Mahon
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Education
1975 - 1976
Belfast College of Art
1971 - 1975
Belfast College of Art
Awards
2004
Arts Council England
1977
Arts Council Northern Ireland
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Previous events
Event: Belovèd: Recent Figurative and Landscape Images from 2015 & 2016
Dates: Feb. 6, 2017 - Feb. 11, 2017
Paintings on canvas from 2015 and a selection from my series of watercolours on Indian Khadi paper from 2016.
Event: Queen of Hearts and other works
Dates: Feb. 9, 2015 - Feb. 15, 2015
a selection of paintings and drawings from 1990 to present
Event: Love in a Dark Landscape 2013
Dates: Oct. 28, 2013 - Nov. 3, 2013
I held three exhibitions in 2013... first was 'Love: Twenty Years Twenty Images' Gallery at St. Martins Lincoln, in early February to celebrate Valentine's Day and my twenty years living in Lincolnshire; second was 'Home from Home' at the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Northern Ireland throughout April and lastly 'Love in a Dark Landscape' again in Lincoln in the last week of October to tie both shows and celebrate my sixtieth birthday.
Event: Home from Home
Dates: March 30, 2013 - April 27, 2013
Selection of sixty pieces of my paintings, prints and stonecarving from 1988 - 2013
Event: Love: Twenty Years - Twenty Images
Dates: Feb. 4, 2013 - Nov. 10, 2013
In early 2013 I had lived in Lincolnshire for twenty years.
Event: Made to Fit
Dates: March 20, 2012 - April 17, 2010
14th Women's Work exhibition where each piece had to fit into a CD case format
Event: Paper Kisses
Dates: May 5, 2005 - June 7, 2005
Romantic works
Event: Selected works 1988 - 2000
Dates: Oct. 10, 2001 - Oct. 24, 2017
Selected exhibition of large psstels and linoprints from 1988 - 2001
Event: Solo Show
Dates: Feb. 1, 1998 - March 1, 1998
Major exhibition of my work
Event: Solo exhibiton
Dates: Oct. 11, 1993 - Nov. 7, 1993
Solo exhibition of paintings and decorated objects including furniture
Event: Intimations of Desire
Dates: June 1, 1992 - June 28, 1992
Pastels and prints
Event: To see behind her
Dates: May 5, 1989 - June 5, 1989
Major solo exhibition which also showed at Lamont gallery London
Event: Dreams and Desires
Dates: Dec. 10, 1988 - Jan. 14, 1989
Major exhibition of my pastels and prints
Event: To see behind her
Dates: Oct. 2, 1988 - Oct. 31, 1988
Large pastels and linoprints
Event: Solo exhibiton
Dates: Oct. 2, 1987 - Oct. 30, 1987
Prints and pastels
Event: Athena Art Awards
Dates: Feb. 11, 1987 - March 8, 1987
Mixed Open Exhibition in which I showed Gemini (pastel 30 x 44 inches)
Event: Black and White from Rouge Press
Dates: Jan. 8, 1987 - Jan. 31, 1987
Exhibition to accompany a limited Edition Portfolio of eight artists' works:
Mikey Cuddihy, Debbie Duffin, Sarah Greengrass, Fiona Hamley, Elaine Kowalsky, Phyllis Mahon, Sandra Porter, Joanna Price
Event: The Print Show 1986
Dates: Dec. 4, 1986 - Dec. 24, 1986
Mixed Xmas Exhibition of various artists
Event: Three Irish Artists
Dates: Nov. 30, 1985 - Jan. 11, 1986
Exhibition of three Irish artists: Clement McAleer, Vivien Burnside and myself
Biography
my inspirations have always been romantic love, literature and landscape, expressed in various mediums ~ watercolours, acrylics, chalk pastels and limestone.
I have arranged my artworks so:
pages 1 - 4 ... most recent works which are mainly acrylics on canvas and watercolours on handmade paper: these are a combination of figurative and landscape.
pages 7 - 10 ... stonecarvings, giclee prints from iPad drawings, ink drawings, hand-coloured linoprints from the 80s and early 90s, as well as a small selection of my most popular tiny hand-printed wood-engravings
pages 9 - 11 ... sold artworks, mostly, but not all, sold on Artfinder.
A little about me:
I was born in rural County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, and began exhibiting in 1976 when I graduated from Belfast College of Art, where I had studied Fine Art Painting with a postgraduate year spent in Printmaking (specialising in etching, engraving and linoprinting).
Since then I’ve been a professional artist and illustrator:
from 1976 - 1992 my studio was based in London's East End at an exciting time when there was a lot of available, affordable studio space; my home was my studio in a whole street of short-life housing for artists. This enabled me to raise my three children and devote myself to my career, working at home and exhibiting widely over Ireland and the UK.
in the 90s I was proud to be one of seven artists representing Northern Ireland in Hong Kong. I am also thrilled to have been the recipient of two Arts Council Awards ~ a photography award in my early career and then what was a suprerb mid career boost - an award to learn stonecarving in 2003, just in time for my fiftieth birthday!
My works are in many private collections in the UK, Ireland and Japan:
