Self-taught designer Claire McGovern of Rhyme Studio may be living and working in New York, but she is an Irish woman at heart. Two years ago, she launched a series of rugs made from the finest hand-spun Irish wool, inspired by the artistic lexicon of Insular Irish Celtic art.
Rose Jane Leigh’s importance as an early pioneering Wexford landscape painter and her choice of studying in Antwerp placed her at the centre of the major art movements of the 19th and early 20th century, writes Mary Stratton Ryan
