Hi I'm Helen Magee a fine artist, illustrator and designer based on the east coast of Ireland, in Delgany, County Wicklow. I find my surroundings very inspiring. My home studio lies a few minutes from the Irish Sea but in idyllic countryside among fields with grazing sheep and cows, blackberry ditches, and views of the Sugarloaf mountain.
The smell of oil paint on a canvas takes me back to my childhood and to memories of my mother, my great influencer, an oil painter and crafter who has a natural eye for colour and interior design, and who was always creating something.
In recent years I set up my own design studio creating collections of art prints for the home, along with giftware products like textiles and stationery. I wholesale my products to beautiful shops and galleries across Ireland and Northern Ireland including the National Gallery of Ireland shop and heritage shops like Hillsborough Castle Shop and the GPO Witness History museum. I enjoy using gouache, watercolour painting to create designs for my products.
My illustrated designs are inspired by nature and the pretty botanicals of my local countryside, also retro art and design from growing up in the early 70’s and 80’s.
My background is in oil painting and over the years I have sold my paintings in exhibitions both locally and in Dublin and I continue to work in oils and sell my paintings.
The smell of oil paint on a canvas takes me back to my childhood and to memories of my mother, my great influencer, an oil painter and crafter who has a natural eye for colour and interior design, and who was always creating something.
In recent years I set up my own design studio creating collections of art prints for the home, along with giftware products like textiles and stationery. I wholesale my products to beautiful shops and galleries across Ireland and Northern Ireland including the National Gallery of Ireland shop and heritage shops like Hillsborough Castle Shop and the GPO Witness History museum. I enjoy using gouache, watercolour painting to create designs for my products.
My illustrated designs are inspired by nature and the pretty botanicals of my local countryside, also retro art and design from growing up in the early 70’s and 80’s.
My background is in oil painting and over the years I have sold my paintings in exhibitions both locally and in Dublin and I continue to work in oils and sell my paintings.
