VISUAL ARTIST

Ethna Barry studied visual arts in the UK, receiving her teaching diploma with a major in Studio Arts from the University of North Wales. In 1988, she immigrated to Montreal where she studied Fine Arts at Concordia University, graduating with a BFA (painting and drawing).

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Of Irish farming heritage, she spent her early years travelling back and forth between Britain and the rural landscape of southwest Ireland, inspiring her lifelong interest in painting rural landscapes, flora and natural forms. ​

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She currently lives and works in Montreal and continues to take annual trips to the southwest of Ireland, to draw and paint, and to re-connect with her own particular visual and emotional landscape.