Geraldine O'Reilly, native Co Westmeath, received an honours degree and diploma in painting from the National College of art and design, Dublin. From 2004 she is an elected member of AOSDANA which honours the contribution of artists to culture and the Arts in Ireland; she is also a Director of the Graphic studio Print workshop and Gallery, Dublin. She exhibited extensively in Ireland and abroad and her work is represented in many public and private collections most notable, The National Gallery of Ireland, NCAD, Chester Beatty Museum, Mc Mullen Museum, Boston College, Office of Public Works, University of Tasmania.

Dolores Lyne was born in Killarney, Co. Kerry and now lives in Connemara. A member of Artspace and AKIN artists' groups she is also a theatre and film designer and received an Irish Times I ESB Irish Theatre Award for Best Set Design. Her work is to be found in several collections, including the Arts Council, NUl Galway, and the Irish Writers' Museum. She has exhibited among others at the Rubicon Gallery, the RHA, Galway Arts Centre, Galway Arts Festival, lontas, the National Theatre London.

Mary Donnolly, originally from Dundalk, Co Louth, has been living and working in Connemara since 1991 where she finds her inspiration. Mary received the Oriel Gallery Award for "Landscape of Distinction" at the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Group Exhibition, Dublin in 2004. She also had a very successful solo exhibition in the Hallward Gallery, Dublin , which received critical acclaim in the Irish Times. In 2003 Mary exhibited at the University of Virginia Art Museum in "Re-Imagining Ireland: Irish Art Today" and at the Christa Faut Gallery in North Carolina. She is the recipient of many bursaries and awards and is a contributor to The Great Book of Ireland.

A native of Belfast, Rosie McGurran moved to Connemara in 2000. She is an elected associate of the Royal Ulster Academy, and received of a number of awards including the Mills Selig Award and the Victor Treacy Award. She has exhibited her work most recently at The Boyle Arts Festival and the Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; other exhibitions include, Galway City Hall, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, The Wexford Arts Centre, Gallerie Faouedic, Lorient, France and as part of the Tulca festival of visual arts in Galway. Her work can be found in private collections worldwide and in the National Self Portrait Collection of Ireland, Galway City and County Councils, Galway University, UTV and Farmleigh House.In October this year Rosie McGurran has been awarded an Artist's residency at the Arthur and Yvonne Boyd Centre for the Arts, Bundanon, NSW, Australia.