Artwork by Lorraine Whelan . . .

A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2020

This is a Japanese stab-bound portfolio of eight prints - visual observations made of the route from where I usually stay when holidaying in Antibes (France) to the nearby 16th century fort on the edge of the town, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Please see Printmaking section for details on individual prints.

  • edition of 3
  • interior title/signature/edition page acid free Fabriano Tiziana Blanco, 160 g/m2
  • portfolio cover is acid free blotting paper, 300 g/m2, 36.5 cm x 27 cm x 1 cm
  • stab-binding is with 12 strands cotton thread
  • eight image prints (lino block) per book, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2, image size 25 cm x 15 cm
  • prints are interleaved with acid free tissue paper

Image Details

  • portfolio cover being held
  • open portfolio showing title page
  • open portfolio showing a page with tissue covering image
  • open portfolio showing a page uncovered


I was born in Toronto, Canada into a large Irish immigrant family. Shortly after obtaining my primary degree in 1986, I moved to Ireland to where my parents and half my siblings had already returned.

My writing (poetry, art criticism & commentary, fiction, non-fiction) has been published in Ireland, Canada, USA, Luxembourg & online.

I have exhibited my artwork throughout Ireland in both solo and group exhibitions and have exhibited in group exhibitions in France, China and Canada. I have participated in artist residencies and symposia and my work is included in private (US, Canada, Australia, UK & Belgium) and in public/corporate collections (Microsoft WPGI, OPW, HSE, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Europol & IBM).

For over 30 years I have created bodies of work that are inspired and challenged by my environment and circumstances, which are regularly in flux. The study and analysis of dreams plays a large part in much of my work and the development of dream imagery informs the iconography used in both visual and verbal work.

I have worked on projects in response to a specific brief, site, concept, or combination of these. I am fascinated with the immediacy of temporary work yet equally interested in archives and permanence. While I consider myself primarily a painter, I love to experience and experiment with any manner of media. I freely use any media to suit an idea, which is the paramount consideration.

I believe that it is through the expression of individual responses to life circumstances that wider truths can be discovered and understood.

I am an artist. I am here. I remember. I draw. I write. I tell stories.