Anna Marie Leavy

Anna Marie was born in Pettigo, Co. Donegal and attended the National College of Art, Dublin. She lived and taught art in Dumfries, Scotland and Downpatrick, Co. Down.

Since 1971 she has worked from her studio in Co. Westmeath

 

Her paintings are regularly exhibited in the annual exhibitions of the Royal Hibernian Academy and Watercolour Society of Ireland.

 

A founder member of Mullingar Art Enterprises, Anna Marie has actively promoted watercolour as a medium by teaching in the V.E.C. Adult Education Programme for many years, and has been responsible for the phenomenal development of interest in watercolour painting and the visual arts in the midlands.

 

Internationally, Anna Marie has worked with artists in England, Canada and Japan.

She has taken part in International Exhibitions in Connecticut and Washington, USA, and the Municipal Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, as part of the UNESCO International Friendship Exhibition. Her solo exhibitions include the Municipal Gallery in the Perfectual Cultural Centre, Fukui and the Saiwai Gallery, Kawasaki, both in Japan.

 

Anna Marie has exhibited annually with Kilcock Art Gallery since her solo exhibition in 1986.

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

Kilcock Art Gallery, Co. Kildare	RoyalHibernianAcademy
Avon Gallery, Connecticut, USA	Watercolour Society of Ireland
The Harbour Gallery, Toronto, Canada	KennyGallery, Galway
Fukui Cultural Centre, Japan	Combridge Fine Arts, Dublin
Gallery Saiwai, Kawasaki, Japan	Sligo Art Gallery
Arts Resource Centre Gallery, Mullingar	Allied Irish Bank, Dublin
Bank of Ireland, College Green, Dublin

 Collections 

AIB Group	Bank of Ireland
Office of Public Works	Hibernian Insurance
Japanese Government	Carysfort College, Blackrock, Dublin
Longford–Westmeath Library	Mullingar County Council
St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra	University of Limerick
Midland Health Board	PJ Carroll
Mr. Mike Sullivan, Former US Ambassador to Ireland

 Her paintings are represented in private and public collections around the world.