About

The Green Door Studio and Gallery is by now a well established workspace where local landscape, seascape and portraiture are predominantly featured in both original paintings and limited edition prints. The painters are related in family and also in the sources of their inspiration, the coast of Donegal, yet each differ widely in their personal response to the raw materials that prompts their work. Their distinctly different styles compliment each other working in harmony to bring together a display of work truly "of the place"  

 

Adrienne Rafferty graduated from the University of Ulster, York St, with a B.A Honours in Fine & Applied Arts Primarily a painter she is also a printmaker in the disciplines of etching and screen printing. She studied illustration in Urbino, Italy and has won acclaim and commissions for her contemporary work including a U.T.V young Artist of the year award. Her works are intuitive and spiritual evocations of the dramatic moods of the Donegal coast.  

 

Kate studied painting in Belfast College of Art and sculpture in St Martins College in London where she graduated in fine Art. She taught art in St Cecilia's College, Derry and headed the art department from '91 - '96. Now a full time painter, she has developed a very personal style of palette knife work to interpret the North West coast, capturing the essence of an idyllic moment in bold uncluttered images.

 

The Green Door also represents the paintings, drawings and illustrations of well known North West based Artist Gary Bonner who graduated from the University of Ulster York St with a B.A Honours. Already well established throughout Ireland as a fine portrait Artist his recent paintings have resulted in beautiful landscapes paintings of the coastline which contrast with his modern minimalist styles and illustration work. Gary is known for an adept versatility of painting styles and his work features in private collections and public spaces.  

 

The Gallery is a family run friendly place where people come daily to enjoy the paintings or to talk and commission works both small and large from any of the artists.The fully rounded range and skill of techniques possessed by the artists makes the green door an obvious place to enrich your appreciation of painting and possibly add to your personal collection. Among the brilliant coastal paintings a welcome is always in the air at the green door.