A graduate of Crawford College of Art, Cork and University College Cork, Judy O’Sullivan taught art in secondary school for a number of years. A growing interest in the therapeutic value of creativity led her to study art and colour therapy after which she took a career break from teaching and began to develop her own work. She left Dublin to live and paint in Clare.  She has exhibited in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Clare. She continues to explore art and colour therapy through her workshops

Judy works in mixed media, acrylic and watercolour. The work is small to medium scale – often dictated by the space in which she is working, or a wish to create a sense of intimacy such as we see in the small watercolours. Colour, or its absence, is of great importance and she will often begin a series of work as a meditation on a colour, allowing it to lead the way.