Born in 1935 in Dublin, Sean McSweeney now lives and works in Sligo. His work is almost entirely based on the small area of shoreline and bogland that surrounds his home on a small peninsula in that county.
He has had numerous successful solo shows since the 1960s at prominent Dublin galleries including the Dawson Gallery and Taylor Galleries, at the Fenderesky Gallery in Belfast and the John Martin Gallery in London. Retrospective exhibitions have taken place at the RHA and Galway (1990) and
the Niland Gallery, Sligo in 2007.
He is regarded as one of Ireland's pre-eminent romantic landscape painters.
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