Fine Arts

Meet the artist: Charles Tyrrell

Abstraction has always featured in the painter’s work, while allowing room for the intuitive and a pursuit of potent visual statements

Charlie Tyrrell has represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale and the International Festival of Painting at Cagnes-sur-Mere in France

Charles Tyrrell, from Trim, Co Meath, studied painting at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, whence he graduated in 1974 and lived for a decade until he moved with his family to Allihies on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork

As well as exhibiting extensively in Ireland, Britain, France, Austria and Germany, he has represented Ireland on a number of occasions, notably at the Paris Biennale and the International Festival of Painting at ...