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Born 1957 in Ireland where she was brought up by nuns of the Ursuline order. Following a period of travel and work in Europe she studied for her B.A. Hon’s. in Fine Art at Univ. Middlesex, London. A few years later Aine undertook European Fine Art Painting, to Masters level at Winchester School of Art, in Barcelona, Spain. It was during this time that she encountered/experienced the possibilities of printmaking and thereafter undertook independent studies in a range of printmaking techniques and completed this research by undertaking another Masters degree in Printmaking at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts, London, finishing in 2000. Aine is a national and international award-winning artist - she has exhibited extensively internationally from Belize to Brazil to Iceland to the United States. She has exhibited on two occasions in the Krakow International Print Triennial in Poland. She has also exhibited at many galleries and museums in the UK. Aine has shown in quite a number of private and public galleries in England - mainly in London - where she lived from 1978 to 2007. She relocated to Scotland in 2007. In Scotland her work has been shown in commercial and public galleries most recently in Edinburgh at the Royal Scottish Academy with the SSA (Society of Scottish Artists) and in the RA’s Annual Open Exhibition. Aine is a featured artist in the book "Printmaking at the Edge" by Richard Noyce. Her works are a hybrid of traditional and digital printmaking techniques and figurative in nature. Her subject matter being human existence and how we relate to one another / our environment and ourselves. Membership: Society Scottish Artists (professional member) Glasgow Print Studio, Dundee Contemporary Arts Print Studio, Fife Dunfermline Printmakers. D.A.C.S. (Design and Copyright Society).