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Clare Cryan was born in Dublin and studied painting at the NCA in
Dublin and the Belfast College of Art. She was appointed Master
of the Preliminary School of the NCA in 1965 but later resigned
to develop her own work, and continues to teach privately, working
with Kenneth Webb (q.v.) in the Irish School of Landscape Painting.
In 1971 she founded the Blue Door Studio and many of her pupils
have made an impact on the Irish art world. Clare Cryan has exhibited
at the RHA, RUA, National Watercolour Society London, and The Royal
Institute of Painters in Watercolour. In 1990 President Hillery
presented one of her pictures as a state gift to Queen Beatrix of
the Netherlands. |