This artwork is part of Handled with Care, a collaborative project celebrating community, connection, and shared experiences through art. Each piece reflects personal stories and collective creativity, contributing to a meaningful dialogue within the University Maternity Hospital Limerick.
Title: Sunflower
Artist: Maurice O’Brien
Contacts:
0877737577
Instagram: @moe7seven
mjaobrien@gmail.com
Bio:
My name is Maurice O’Brien, I was born in and currently live in Limerick. I don’t have any formal art training, having an engineering degree. Over the years I would have done some evening courses primarily in life drawing, probably driven by my original interest in the figures in Marvel comic pages. The subject matter that interests me is pretty diverse. While my main interest is in the portrait and the figure, I tend to paint anything that piques my interest or is a challenge in that I may not have tackled the subject before. I recently complete three landscape paintings, my first landscapes which I enjoyed doing as they were a huge challenge. In 2023, I joined a local group artists, Art4Limerick, which finally gave me an opportunity to show my work in public, this has further widened my choice of subject, being inspired by the work of some of the other artists in the group. Being a member of the group has also been a significant learning experience by being exposed to other subjects and techniques practiced by the other artists in the group. Further sample of my artworks can be seen on my Instagram account, look for moe7seven.