Vanessa, an artist living on the Inishowen peninsula, began her creative journey in textile design at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). Her career took her across multiple creative fields, but it was her MA in Visual Art Practices at IADT that sparked a more experimental, mixed-media approach. Now blending painting, illustration, and collage, Vanessa draws on the raw beauty of her coastal surroundings and a love for paper ephemera to infuse each piece with texture, colour, and spontaneity.

Donegal based after 25 years in Dublin and finally returning to a daily practice the work moves between memory and homage to landscape, weaving fragments of places lived, into small works that hopefully nudge the viewer to move in take note and maybe raise a question or two.

Rooted in observation, inspired by colour and abstraction her practice conjures quiet world shaped by the contrasts of light & shadow and of the threat of impermanence.

Easter Sunday. As if by magic. Here’s to safe places, full tummy’s, bright futures. We can hope and hope is magic. #art #collageart #magic
Houses on the hill in the wilds nestled in the fields. A homage to landscape. #art #artforsale #irishart #irishartist #collageart #originalartwork
UPDATE BELOW Each of these are available to purchase. €40 inc P&P. Measuring 9x13cms each, small but jewel like original works. The following titles for reference 1. ⭕️SOLDSilence grew. 2. ⭕️ SOLD Think I like 3. ⭕️SOLD Settle slowly. 4. End of the world 5. Trembling 6. Have a look. If you have any questions just DM me and a like and share would be brilliant! Have a wonderful weekend
UPDATE. ⭕️SOLD ‘ LISTEN’ Colourful works on the desk. Abstract landscapes with recognisable places. Home. Homeland. A feeling or a spot on a map.Available for purchase these are little jewels 9x13cms . Approx €40 each P&P included. DM if interested I will post individual images shortly. #art #irishart #irishartist #landscape #landscapeart #contemporaryart #artonpaper #collage #mixedmedia #artforsale
#irishart #collageart #paperart #wildatlanticway #artistsoninstagram #madeinireland #irishartist Sketchbook one done. Keeping creative every day.
Round up of some of my work done over the the last few weeks. Some are book bound some are loose and now reside on the studio wall. All the pieces are open to finding new homes. DM me with any questions or looking for details #art #collageart #irishart #seashore #irishart #collageart #paperart #art #wildatlanticway #artistsoninstagram #wildatlanticwaydonegal #madeinireland #sea #beachlife #cottagelife
Rolling with it. Desk and tables covered in paper and scattered with ideas. February so far. #Art #irishart #collageart #paperart #collage #artistsoninstagram #wildatlanticwaydonegal #femaleartist #newcollection #newartwork #february #2025creativity
Done but never finished. All I have to show for this are the pictures traped in my phone and how on a post here. It’s gone, the bits and pieces that made up the image are all fallen apart back in a heap, most of them - some have been stuck down in another form. All is transient till it’s not. #art #collage #collageart #process #praxis #transientart #irishart #artonpaper #femaleartist
Been missing in action here. Working away in the background. I plan on getting alot of these works together to offer them for sale they need to take flight and find new walls new homes. If there’s anything that catches your eye or you have a question about any of them do reach out, message me here. In the meantime I will keep working away! #Art #collageart #irishart #paperart #wildatlanticway #madeinireland #artistsoninstagram #irishartist #artforsale #artforyourhome
We are getting ready to tuck in and batten down the hatches here on the Inishowen, as is the whole of Ireland. The items that could become projectiles have been put away the farmer next door is up on a ladder with a drill making good anything that might need securing on his outhouses, the boats I can see on the apps are hurriedly making their way to safe harbour. Here’s hoping we all emerge 36 hours from now no more than stories of big sounds and creeking rafters. #storméowyn #ireland #irishart #collageart #paperart #wildatlanticway #artistsoninstagram #wildatlanticwaydonegal #madeinireland
#bluemonday #smallworks #collage
I completely forgot to post this video the last pieces that I worked on in this sketchbook. All the collage nautical and architectural influences that have been bouncing around in my mind for the last few months. In the new year I plan to deconstruct this book and will try to find a place to exhibit them all together and maybe find a new home for some of them. #irishart #collageart #paperart #wildatlanticway #irishartist #wildatlanticwaydonegal #artistsoninstagram #artforsale #gallery #irishgalleries
Today at the desk. Midnight was evolving and all was done by real sundown just after 4pm. Winter isn’t coming it’s already here.
Middle of the week. It’s Baltic. I am lucky to be cosy and warm. Count those good things as often as possible. #art #mixedmedia #collageart #irishartist #dailyart
Desktop today. Laying them out looking anew. It’s chilly out there and I keep getting notifications that the gritters are going to out in force to try to make the comings and going around us safe and sound. It’s winter for sure but we can still dream of summertime warmth past and yet to come. #art #artist #collageart #collageartist #irishartist #artforsale #dailyart
Comfort and solitude. It’s been a week. Here we are we made it to Friday we are still standing and will continue. Bravo. Here’s to the weekend and also to next week and continuing on. We got this.
Mid week. What a daybreak. Let’s hunker down loose ourselves in small things that give joy. I will try to make small comforting moments on paper, little paper islands of peace. I am gonna watch old gentle tv box sets whilst at my desk and steer clear of the pundits trying to dissect what has happen and what it means in a wider context, that will be for another day. Be gentle .
Monday Monday. Back at the desk. A few more pages from the little book. More shores, imaginary and hopeful. #sketch #sketchbook #dailyarts #irishart #paperart #collageart #wildatlanticway #madeinireland #artistsoninstagram
Mid week. On the desk. Recording a little snippet of new work in my small old rediscovered sketchbook. Lots of little stand alone images that maybe make up a whole story. #paperart #irishart #sketchbook #collage #colour #art #artist #landscape #newart #newcollection
Friday on the desk. Fallen into solitude. Big wide open. Small tiny speck. Here’s to it all. #collage #paperart #artonpaper #collageart #irishart