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 and is representational in content, with an overriding calmness throughout. She sculpts people, animals and birds and her sculptures are elegant and tactile. 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 Paris, Madrid, Edinburgh and London, and has travelled extensively throughout Europe, the Far East, and North America.

Elizabeth makes commissioned work for corporate, private and public collections and prepares her own work for galleries and exhibitions. The work sells as unique pieces or in limited editions. Her work can be viewed year round in galleries and exhibitions in Ireland, the UK and also in Paris at the Greenlane Gallery on Isle St Louis. Elizabeth welcomes visitors to her Dublin studio.
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NEWS
Elizabeth will be 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, from 14 September 2009 - mid January 2010. The exhibition is to be formally opened 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.

Elizabeth's bronze female nude of JANICE will be exhibited in the Royal Ulster Academy' 128th Annual Exhibition from 2 October to 1 November 2009. This year's venue is the former Northern Bank, on the corner of Waring Street and North Street, Belfast

She will also be taking part in a group exhibition with members of the Design Tower. The work is inspired by The Albert Bender Collection, a collection of Asian art at the National Museum of Ireland. The exhibition will run from 2 to 14 November 2009, in conjunction with Dublin's Design Week. Venue: the Waterways Visitor Centre, Grand Canal Basin, Docklands, Dublin 2.