Marie KellyArtist
Exhibition now open — Carrickmacross Civic Centre · 7 Sept – 1 Oct 2026View invite →
Original Irish Landscape Oil Paintings

Capturing the beauty, light & spirit of Ireland.

Marie Kelly is an established Contemporary Irish landscape & seascape painter — an artist based in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan.

Her work is held in private and corporate collections across Ireland and abroad.

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Ceol na Farraige — original Irish landscape oil painting by Marie Kelly, 50 × 50 cm (canvas size)

Ceol na Farraige

Oil on canvas · 50 × 50 cm (canvas size)

Statement Piece

The Rhythm of the Sea

Oil on canvas · 100 × 120 cm (canvas size) · 2026

The Rhythm of the Sea — large immersive seascape oil painting by Marie Kelly, 100 × 120 cm (canvas size)

A large, immersive seascape — sunlit rocks giving way to the deep blue swell of the Atlantic, a wave breaking white against a pale, hazy horizon. A statement piece that brings the rhythm of the Irish coast into the room.

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Marie Kelly painting en plein air on the Wexford coast, easel set against the Atlantic

Marie painting en plein air — Wexford coast

The hand behind the light

"Marie Kelly's work explores the ephemeral, fleeting nature of the Irish landscape — distilling moments of celestial light into permanent, physical form."

Royal Hibernian Academy

Selected for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition

Marie's painting Between Presence & Absence was selected from thousands of submissions for inclusion in the 196th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition — one of the most prestigious open exhibitions in Irish contemporary art.

Oil on canvas · 25 × 30 cm (canvas size) · 2026

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Between Presence & Absence — oil painting by Marie Kelly, selected for the 196th RHA Annual Exhibition
Between Presence & Absence — RHA Annual Exhibition
Selected Works

Recent paintings

Aqua Silence — Inishbofin, Donegal — original oil on primed linen canvas of the Irish landscape by Marie Kelly, 30 × 40 cm (canvas size)

Aqua Silence — Inishbofin, Donegal

Oil on primed linen canvas · 30 × 40 cm (canvas size)

Echoes of Dusk — original oil on board, framed of the Irish landscape by Marie Kelly, 34 × 34 cm (framed size)

Echoes of Dusk

Oil on board, framed · 34 × 34 cm (framed size)

Hook Lighthouse — original oil on linen of the Irish landscape by Marie Kelly, 25 × 30 cm (canvas size)

Hook Lighthouse

Oil on linen · 25 × 30 cm (canvas size)

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Browse available original Irish landscape oil paintings and get in touch to discuss the work, framing and a viewing.

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A painting made for you

Commission a personal Irish landscape or seascape — a stretch of coast, a family place, a memory.

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Questions about a piece, a studio visit, or an exhibition? Marie replies personally.

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The Artist

A contemporary eye, a painter's hand.

Marie Kelly is an established contemporary Irish landscape and seascape painter, working from her studio in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan. She paints en plein air across Ireland with the Drumlin Plein Air Painters, distilling the light and weather of the coast into collected form.

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"I paint the moments most people walk past — the way light folds onto water, the silence before a wave."
— Marie Kelly