About Me

Jackie O’Hara

I am an artist based in the seaside town of Newcastle County Down, Northern Ireland. I usually focus on  portraiture and figurative work but my current work was inspired by a trip at night on the top of a Belfast double decker bus in the dead of winter. I was surprised at how much fun it was, rather like the excitement you feel as a child going to the sea-side but in reverse. In my work I wanted to capture a sense of the playfulness of the lights, puddles, rain, reflections and movement of this journey. I completed a diploma in  Art and design in Belfast in 1986 and more recently an MA in creative Practice in IT Sligo 2021. I have work in private collections in Sweden and Ireland.