Meet Yosta, a web designer based in Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Through her boutique studio, Peak Pixel Design, she bridges the gap between a business’s physical location and its online presence.
With a background in interior architecture, UX design and 17 years in hospitality, Yosta crafts tailored websites and cohesive visual identities, including custom brand collateral. She works closely with small businesses across Ireland to stand out and turn visitors into loyal customers.
Adrian is an inspired furniture designer and maker renowned for his refined craftsmanship and deep reverence for nature's beauty. Honing his skills as both a creator and a restorer, with an extensive knowledge of antique furniture conservation & restoration while seamlessly blending contemporary design pieces with organic forms found in the natural world. Born and raised surrounded by the ever changing Kerry landscape, Adrian's connection to nature serves as the cornerstone of his creative process.
Anchor Studio in Kenmare, led by Eamonn O'Sullivan, is a multidisciplinary design studio providing expert Creative and Art Direction. We craft a strong visual presence through brand identity, exhibition, book, packaging and digital design. By expertly assembling and managing teams of creatives, we deliver cohesive, high-quality and captivating solutions that get your project noticed.
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.
Drew Motion Ink, founded by Andrew Law-Braney, is a Kenmare-based animation and motion designer with an extensive background collaborating with well-known brands throughout Ireland. His expertise brings creative ideas to life through short animations and polished motion graphics, delivering professional-quality work that transforms concepts into memorable brand assets.
As Drew puts it: "Let's make your brand shine."
Property, interior, commercial photography. Working with estate agents, auctioneers, hotels, holiday rental companies and many other businesses.
Rosina Law-Braney is a feminist artist and children’s illustrator working across digital illustration, printmaking, murals, embroidery, zines and independent publishing. Her colourful, playful practice explores contemporary womanhood, relationships, identity and the messy realities of everyday life, alongside whimsical storytelling that appeal to children. Drawing on humour, pop culture and personal experience, Rosina creates bold, relatable work. She is passionate about accessible, community-focused art and regularly facilitates creative workshops that encourage connection, expression and fun.
Aia Leu is a Kenmare based artist, illustrator and publisher with an artistic background. Her landscape paintings are inspired by nature, symbolism and artefacts.
She has experience in collaborative creative groups and is one of the founding members of the Kenmare Courtyard Gallery.
Luis Avilés Ortiz is an artisan perfumer based in Kenmare, County Kerry, and founder of Avilés Fragrances. He creates small-batch fragrances by hand, guided by nature, personal stories and the connection between scent and place. His work includes personal perfumes, bespoke fragrance experiences and scents for the home. Luis combines natural ingredients with carefully selected modern materials, with a strong commitment to human and environmental safety. Through his practice, he helps people understand perfume and create meaningful relationships with scent.
Franziska Freitag is a Kenmare-based artist and founder of Ciúnas Studio, creating artwork for interiors and hospitality spaces. Her practice explores landscape, geology, natural forms and the textures of the Irish environment through expressive layers of colour, movement and material. Working with interior designers, architects, hotels and private clients, Franziska develops bespoke artworks and colour palettes tailored to each space, creating distinctive pieces that enhance atmosphere while drawing on connections to South Kerry and West Cork, where she grew up.
Oliver Holbein is a master carpenter, furniture maker, and the founder of Holbein Joinery, a bespoke manufacturing workshop based in Kerry, Ireland. Specialising in high-end architectural joinery and custom furniture, Oliver combines traditional craftsmanship with cutting-edge technology—utilising advanced CNC machining, 3D parametric modeling, and lean manufacturing principles to deliver complex commercial and residential projects across Ireland.
Beyond the workshop, Oliver is deeply involved in regional development and local sustainability initiatives, serving on community committees in Kenmare focused on environmental stewardship, sports, and local tourism infrastructure.
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 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.
Edit Design Studio, founded by Justina Gruzdyte and Nathalie Vos, designs meaningful and beautiful homes and other spaces. We go beyond aesthetics, researching the materials and products that fill a space, so clients know their environment is genuinely good for them, not just beautifully designed. We believe good design should carry real meaning and support wellbeing for everyone involved, so we work thoroughly and honestly, choosing longevity over trend, in every project we take on.
Born in England, Steve came to Ireland in 1974 and settled in Kenmare in 1976. He established the International Hemp Building Association and has written, taught and advised internationally on hemp-based construction. His expertise in growing, harvesting and processing hemp led him to establish Stems Logic Ltd.
Fiachra Crowley is an artist and ceramicist who creates unique artwork and stoneware ceramics. His work explores the balance between art, design, and everyday use. He creates work of a simple aesthetic, considering form, colour, and pattern.
Fiachra produces distinctive collections made by hand in his home studio outside of Kenmare town, and runs an independent retail premises in the town. He also supplies bespoke commission pieces to hotels and restaurants throughout Ireland.
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 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.
We're Des and Emma, co-founders of Túath, an independent Irish design brand based in Kenmare, Co. Kerry, creating contemporary artwork and lifestyle goods. Inspired by raw landscape and organic materials, our pieces are a simple and distinctive interpretation of familiar places.
Our initial collection includes layered wooden landscapes, fine art prints and thoughtfully designed stationery, each drawing on the character of Ireland through considered design, material and form.
Derek Hillier is an award-winning still life photographer with 40 years of experience in commercial and advertising photography. Formerly based in Charlotte Street, in the heart of London's creative and advertising industry, Derek established a career working with major advertising agencies and designers, producing distinctive imagery for high-profile campaigns.
His work has been recognised with prestigious Cannes Lions and Creative Circle awards, reflecting his creative vision, technical expertise and contribution to advertising photography.
With a highly developed understanding of lighting, composition, colour and form, Derek brings a distinctive artistic approach to still life photography. His work combines technical precision with imaginative visual storytelling, transforming everyday objects into compelling photographic images.
Ruslan Honchar is a Ukrainian artist, illustrator and graphic designer. He graduated from the Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute with a degree in Book Illustration and has worked for well-known magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, GQ, Forbes and XXL.
Inspired by the courage and remarkable story of Irish polar explorer Tom Crean, Ruslan Honchar joined forces with Ukrainian writer Stanislav Vershynin to create a series of graphic novels dedicated to this extraordinary Irish hero.
More than thirty years ago, a friend standing beside me as I hacked out a shape from an oak trunk suggested that I might be a renaissance man.
At the time I was unsure how to take the remark.
I now think it sums me up.
Here I am today, a carpenter, furniture maker. Woodturner, sculptor, painter.
A metal worker and blacksmith. A designer and maker of things.
A creative life and I am grateful for it.
Eoghan Kavanagh is an Irish photographer based in southwest Ireland, specialising in commercial, architectural, property and landscape photography. Over a decades-long career, he has produced imagery for leading brands and design agencies, combining technical expertise with a distinctive visual style. In 2009, he founded Skyline in Kenmare to present his fine-art landscape photography, celebrating Ireland's atmosphere, light and natural character. His practice balances thoughtful, creative commissioned work with a deep personal commitment to capturing the enduring beauty of Ireland's landscapes.
Laurie Shaw is a multidisciplinary artist, specialising in graphic design, record production, self publishing and film making. His graphic design company, Alright Design works with clients to create unique and bold brand identities and products. Laurie has made over a hundred albums of bedroom pop and produced a number of collaborative music projects. He films and edits short films and music videos. Laurie illustrates and self-publishes zines and comics including the long-running anthology series Classic Cigar Shape.
Boworkshop is an architectural practice, located on the beautiful west coast near Kenmare, Co. Kerry. Founded by Alec Borrill & Liam O'Grady, the practice has a passion for creating sustainable, contemporary buildings of all scales. Taking inspiration from the wild and varied landscapes and local vernacular, the aim is to deliver creative, bespoke designs that respond to and complement their context, providing a timeless solution.
With almost 40 years of experience collectively, our practice is built on a collaborative approach, working closely with clients to bring their visions to life. By guiding them through the design process and incorporating the latest sustainable practices, the aim is to create high quality, enduring spaces.
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.
Natalie Moriarty is a Kenmare-based designer who specialises in crafting distinctive visual identities, intuitive custom website user experiences, and bespoke hand-lettered art for local and international clients. Offering web design, logo and brand strategy, custom illustration and lettering prints, Natalie helps businesses, hospitality brands and creative ventures build memorable visual presences.
Originally studying Fine Art in Limerick, specialising in printmaking, I have always had a love for creativity. Since returning to my hometown of Kenmare, I have embraced the title of amateur artist, from the French amateur, meaning someone who pursues something for the love of it, not for work. Free to try any medium, I enjoy many different art forms, and creating simply for the joy.
Denise Cronin is an artist and graphic designer from Kenmare. She paints primarily with acrylics and soft pastels, drawing inspiration from and expressing her connection to the patterns of the landscape and seasons.
With over 20 years' experience in graphic design, she has worked in creative studios in Cork and Kerry on a broad range of visual communications projects.
Her artistic practice offers a counterbalance to the structured nature of graphic design, with both disciplines continually informing and complementing one another.
I am currently studying goldsmithing in the Sacred art school in Florence. During my time here I have had the opportunity the learn from the master Silversmith Francesco Paganini. My experiences here have been very varied although being able to learn Repoussè here has been a lot of fun. Last year I was lucky enough to take first place in a Repouseè competition organised by goldsmithing guild of Rome.