Majella O'Neill Collins’s Biography

Majella's long experience of studying the shoreline, the sea, and the weather conditions, skies, and clouds associated with them, is combined with structural approaches, new qualities of light and colour, and new levels of directness, simplification, and abstraction. Colour continues to play a central role in Majella's work. Her palette is free and broad, and colours are built up in the traditional method of layering. The result is a series of paintings of glowing power and great intensity of vision. Majella is clearly emotionally drawn to the sea and her paintings communicate its power to reinforce, challenge, and change people's emotions.

Recent solo exhibitions

• 1999 The Private Collector Gallery, Innishannon, Ireland
• The Mews, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• 2001 Davrous, Zurich, Germany
• The Florelli Gallery, Rome, Italy
• The Rose Gallery, Paddington, Australia
• The Mews, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• 2002 The Hennessy Foundation, Washington DC, USA
• Christopoulos, Nicosia, Cyprus
• The Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
• 2003 The Waring Gallery, Belfast
• Dublin Art Fair
• 2004 The Warren Gallery, Castletownsend
• National Software Centre, Cork
• The Mews, Baltimore

Selected recent group exhibitions

• 1999 The Fuller Building, New York, USA
• The Glebe Gallery, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• 2000 The Fuller Building, New York, USA
• The Florelli Gallery, Rome, Italy
• The Private Collector Gallery, Innishannon, Ireland
• The Glebe Gallery, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• 2001 The living landscape, The West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co Cork
• The Private Collector Gallery, Innishannon, Ireland
• The Private Collector Gallery, Sherkin Island, Co Cork, Ireland
• 2002 The Private Collector Gallery, Innishannon, Kenmare, and Dublin, Ireland
• The Private Collector Gallery, Sherkin Island, Co Cork, Ireland
• The Mews, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• The Warren Gallery, Castletownsend
• 2003 The Private Collector Gallery, Sherkin Island, Co Cork, Ireland
• The Mews, Baltimore, Co Cork, Ireland
• The Warren Gallery, Castletownsend
• Cunnamore Galleries Christmas Show
• The Hunt Museum, Limerick
• 2004 Cunnamore Galleries Summer Show
• The Waring Gallery, Belfast
• Mary Anns, Castletownsend

Private Collections

• Office of Public Works, Ireland
• Allied Irish Bank
• Cork Regional Hospital
• The Hennessy Foundation, USA