Elizabeth O'Kane is a sculptor and painter working in Dublin. Her sculptures are figurative and cast in bronze. Her work follows the realist tradition. She sculpts people, animals and birds; her sculptures are elegant and tactile with an overriding calmness throughout. Elizabeth is especially interested in portraiture, anatomy and movement, and in capturing the sitter's personality and expression. She has also lectured in portrait sculpture in Dublin.

Elizabeth's paintings are architectural. She works mainly in watercolour, painting buildings and cityscapes in great detail, offering depth and perspective. She likes to capture her subject matter in strong sunlight giving her buildings sharp definition through bold shadows and crisp lines. Her paintings have been described as photorealist with her cityscapes initially mistaken for photographs.

Travel is a recurrent theme. She finds inspiration in cities she has lived in or visited. Originally a translator by profession, Elizabeth has worked and studied in New York, Paris, Madrid, Edinburgh and London, and has travelled extensively throughout Europe, the Far East, and North America.

Elizabeth makes commissioned work for public, corporate and private collections and prepares her own work for galleries and exhibitions. The work sells as unique pieces or in small limited editions.
Her work can be viewed year round in galleries and exhibitions in Ireland and the UK. Elizabeth welcomes visitors to her Dublin studio. Click on the Sculpture and Painting links above to view the artist's work.

Elizabeth is currently woking on a life size sculpture of Irish greyhound racing legend, Mick the Miller. The bronze sculpture will be unveiled later this year in Killeigh village green, County Offaly where the dog was born in the 1920s.

Elizabeth is taking part in the Royal Hibernian Academy of Art Annual Exhibition on Ely Place, Dublin 2. The exhibition runs from 24 May - 25 July 2010.

Elizabeth is currently exhibiting several bronze sculptures of John Count McCormack at the National Museum of Ireland in an exhibition dedicated to the life of the tenor at Collins Barracks, Dublin, until September 2010. The exhibition was formally opened last year by President Mary McAleese.

Elizabeth's life size bronze sculpture of world famous Irish tenor, Count John McCormack, was unveiled in Dublin in June 2008 in the Iveagh Gardens, behind the National Concert Hall.