Twigín
Twigín is a sustainable Irish gift brand by Kerry artist Ciara O’Connor. At the heart of her work are thread drawings—intricate, stitched portraits celebrating Irish culture, from history-shaping icons to contemporary life. A visual love letter to Ireland, these unique images are mindfully printed on notebooks, cards, mugs, totes and fine art prints.
To complement her vision, Ciara partners with ethical Irish suppliers who prioritize green energy and sustainable production.
Myfanwy Frost-Jones
Myfanwy Frost-Jones is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kenmare, County Kerry, whose practice explores place, cultural identity, migration, memory and the ways histories are recorded and preserved. Working across photography, moving image, sculpture and research, she draws on personal and community archives alongside historical and material research.
Her work often connects Ireland and Uganda, examining the relationships between people, landscape and inherited histories. She holds a BA in Fine Art from Crawford College of Art and Design and an MA in Art Research and Collaboration (ARC) from IADT.
Mieke Vanmechelen
Mieke Vanmechelen is a visual artist and filmmaker whose practice spans moving image, film and painting. Her work is shaped by an interest in people, place, landscape and the natural world. She works across documentary and experimental forms, drawing on observation, collaboration and lived experience. In 2021, she founded Fierce Quiet Films, extending her creative practice into independent filmmaking and storytelling.
Una Bennett
Una Bennett is a Kerry-based contemporary landscape painter whose work explores sustained attention and engagement with place. Working primarily in oils, she translates landscape into simplified, interlocking geometric forms, organising pictorial space through colour, shape and structure.
More recently, her involvement in woodland restoration adds another dimension to her practice. This extends exploration of space from the pictorial to the physical and experiential, where observation and interpretation of the landscape become entangled with its physical transformation.
Kim Crowley
Kim Crowley is a curator and visual artist from Kenmare. Her practice explores language, participatory events and facilitation with a focus on artist-led, expanded publishing. She has over 7 years producing events, publications, workshops and exhibitions.
She is a Co-director of Bloomers, a Cork City based publishing collective since 2019. Kim launched her publishing project What Now in 2025 and completed a residency at Triskel Arts Centre in Spring 2026. Curated exhibitions include shows at Backwater Artists Group and Sample-Studios, alongside publications such as Oghyll (2025) and The Ground Beneath Our Feet (2023). Kim is a graduate of Glasgow School of Art and MTU Crawford College of Art & Design.
Rosemary Purcell
Living and working in Kenmare since 1988. Rosemary is a self-thought artist whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape of South Kerry. Mountains, bogs and the sea are recurring themes in her work. Her background as a Marine biologist informs particular affinity with the shoreline and the presence frequently explored in her art.
Rosemary also runs The Purcell Gallery , a fine art gallery in Kenmare, representing contemporary landscape artists who take their inspiration from the beauty of the Southwest of Ireland.