About Tom Sharkey

Tom Sharkey is a partially sighted Irish artist living and working in Dublin, Ireland. He graduated from Whitehall College obtaining distinctions in all subjects and awarded class Student of the year.

His work is imbued with depth and colour harmony so often felt in those quiet secluded places that allow your imagination to wander, to remember quieter times and places.

Tom mainly works with acrylics and dabbles in oil every now and again but enjoys the freedom that acrylics bring to his style of painting.

From the artist

“My paintings are mostly from my imagination but I constantly draw reference to times I have spent travelling around the country, or memories of my younger days hiking and camping around Wicklow where we lived off burnt sausages and tins of diced fruit; or visiting the Botanic Gardens armed with a few pencils and a sketchbook.

My style is rooted in my appreciation of the natural landscape and through my paintings of landscapes, forest scape and fantasy art I have the pleasure of sitting in front of a canvas, playing with colour, light and shade to create an image that constantly evolves even to the last stroke”

- Tom Sharkey