Artwork by Lorraine Whelan . . .

A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2020

This is a Japanese stab-bound portfolio of eight prints - visual observations made on the route from where I usually stay when holidaying in Antibes (France) to the nearby 16th century fort on the edge of the town, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Image Details

  • page 3, A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2019, edition of 3, linoprint, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2 36.5 cm x 27 cm, image size: 25 cm x 15 cm
  • page 4, A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2019, edition of 3, linoprint, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2 36.5 cm x 27 cm, image size: 25 cm x 15 cm
  • page 5, A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2019, edition of 3, linoprint, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2 36.5 cm x 27 cm, image size: 25 cm x 15 cm
  • page 6, A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2019, edition of 3, linoprint, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2 36.5 cm x 27 cm, image size: 25 cm x 15 cm
  • page 8, A Short Walk to Fort Carré, 2019, edition of 3, linoprint, acid free Fabriano Tiepolo 130g/m2 36.5 cm x 27 cm, image size: 25 cm x 15 cm


I was born in Toronto, Canada into a large Irish immigrant family. Shortly after obtaining my primary degree in 1986, I moved to Ireland to where my parents and half my siblings had already returned.

My writing (poetry, art criticism & commentary, fiction, non-fiction) has been published in Ireland, Canada, USA, Luxembourg & online.

I have exhibited my artwork throughout Ireland in both solo and group exhibitions and have exhibited in group exhibitions in France, China and Canada. I have participated in artist residencies and symposia and my work is included in private (US, Canada, Australia, UK & Belgium) and in public/corporate collections (Microsoft WPGI, OPW, HSE, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Europol & IBM).

For over 30 years I have created bodies of work that are inspired and challenged by my environment and circumstances, which are regularly in flux. The study and analysis of dreams plays a large part in much of my work and the development of dream imagery informs the iconography used in both visual and verbal work.

I have worked on projects in response to a specific brief, site, concept, or combination of these. I am fascinated with the immediacy of temporary work yet equally interested in archives and permanence. While I consider myself primarily a painter, I love to experience and experiment with any manner of media. I freely use any media to suit an idea, which is the paramount consideration.

I believe that it is through the expression of individual responses to life circumstances that wider truths can be discovered and understood.

I am an artist. I am here. I remember. I draw. I write. I tell stories.