Jody McGrath
I was born in the North of Ireland in Armagh, the city of saints and scholars, with gunmen and milk bottles literally on my doorstep. My first real introduction to life within The Troubles. A pencil rarely left my hand, and some of my earliest memories were drawing dinosaurs and armalites on anything that wasn’t nailed down. Throughout Catholic school, art, as well as reading, was my ever-constant source of solace and peace. Days spent in libraries continued right on through my university years. I knew painting was my everything. I graduated with a degree in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Then I needed to expand and, as Brien Friel said, “Philadelphia, here I come.” More than twenty years have gone by in my pursuance of my visual version of the American dream. I’m still a believer in it. This beautiful land has shaped me into the painter I am now. If my paintings aren’t difficult, then I’m doing something wrong. I hope that I’ve managed to capture visually in my work the human condition that is all of us. I pray on some level it resonates with you as it has with me.
Available for:
Fine art painting, Muralist
