I came across Isobel Henihan, an artist, by accident recently. Twitter, which is effectively a source for the terminally curious, led me to her. By chance, she was just finishing a residency in the RHA in Dublin and I met her there when she was displaying her year’s work. She also has a blog and a photostream on Flickr.

I like Isobel’s art (realistic colours; bold and confident brushstrokes; great atmosphere). She does a lot of plein air landscape work around Dun Laoghaire, Dalkey and Killiney which I like. She also puts together some pretty good portrait work which you’ll see by following the links above.

I love this painting of a lightship moored at Dun Laoghaire Harbour, with the lifeboat in the foreground. The reflections in the water attracted me first but the more I look at it, the more I see and the more I like. Gorgeous.

(Her sister, Judith, is an artist too. I have a lighthouse of hers in the hall.)