EILEEN HEALY
A little big artist
By Lynda Cookson
A pixie with a pink woollen cap pulled down protectively low over her forehead, whizzed into the parking lot of the Backwater Studios in Cork on her bicycle, and eyed me warily from beneath where I guessed her eyebrows were.
A first few prickly and shy moments turned into an easy and welcoming hour or two in Eileen Healy’s studio. Although she declares she’s going through a bit of a sticky patch inspirationally, her studio is the wonderful den of the real working artist. It just felt seriously arty, backed up by the stacks of paintings and drawings leaning against the walls and perched up on a corner attic shelf behind a pillar, with studies of her subjects on the walls. Every piece of Eileen’s work is quite obviously produced by a natural artist of huge talent. Little artist, big talent!
