Elizabeth O'Kane is a sculptor and painter working in Dublin. Her work follows the realist tradition. Elizabeth's sculptures are figurative and cast in bronze. She sculpts people, animals and birds and is especially interested in portraiture, anatomy and movement, and in capturing the sitter's personality and expression. Her sculptures are elegant and tactile with an overriding calmness throughout. She also lectures in portrait sculpture in Dublin. Public pieces include life size bronze sculpture of world famous Irish tenor, Count John McCormack, in Dublin's Iveagh Gardens, and champion Irish greyhound Mick the Miller, in Killeigh, County Offaly.

Her 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. Elizabeth's 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 and Edinburgh, and has travelled extensively throughout Europe and North America.

Elizabeth makes commissioned work for public, corporate and private collections and prepares her own work for galleries and exhibitions. Her work sells as unique pieces or in small limited editions. Collectors include the International Rugby Board, the Irish Rugby Football Union, The National Concert Hall, Belfast City Hall and New York New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas.

Elizabeth's work can be viewed year round in galleries and exhibitions
in Ireland and the UK. She welcomes visitors to her Dublin studio. Click here to view the artist's Sculptures and Paintings.

Elizabeth's work is being featured in an interview on The Design Tower's Blog - read the article here.

Her life size bronze sculpture of Irish greyhound racing legend, Mick the Miller was unveiled in January 2011 by An Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowan, in Killeigh village green, County Offaly, where the dog was born in the 1920.

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Elizabeth will also be showing sculptures in Christmas Exhibitions with the following galleries:
The Solomon Gallery, Balfe Street, (next door to The Westbury Hotel) Dublin 2. Thursday 1 December until New Year,
and Parvis Gallery, Lisburn, County Antrim, opening Saturday 3 December.

The Design Tower Studios are having a special "Twelve Days of Christmas" sales from 8 - 23 December 2011 for Christmas shoppers.
Elizabeth's studio is located in Studio 35 on the third floor. Everyone welcome.