‘The world changed for me’. Hilary Pyle remembers Melanie le Brocquy’s realisation that sculpture was to be her métier when she discovered the sculpture studio at art school
Hilary Pyle recalls the artist Hilda Roberts, two-time winner of the RDS Taylor Art Award, whose talents were apparent from an early age
Artist Frances Kelly didn’t aim for exact likenesses in her portraits of people or flowers, but rather for some inner, more abstract, significance, writes Hilary Pyle
150 years since the birth of Jack B Yeats, Hilary Pyle considers the concept of memory embedded in his work
Barbara Warren’s work, rather than startling or imposing on the eye, invites the spectator to come in, writes Hilary Pyle
While she valued her Irish roots, artist Hilda van Stockum found that she could express herself best in the Dutch genre of still life, writes Hilary Pyle
Flora Mitchell was a passionate recorder of vanishing city architecture, writes Hilary Pyle
Hilary Pyle looks at the life and work of artist Estella Solomons, whose exhibition is on view at the National Gallery of Ireland
Hilary Pyle explores the formation of the Friends of the National Collections of Ireland and the role played by its founding member, Sarah Purser