Declan O'Connor from Co. Tipperary was born in 1957. He has enjoyed considerable success after beginning to paint relatively late in life (1990).

Beginning, first of all, with portraiture depicting the Irish Writers, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett and Shaw and then turning his attention to the 1916 signatories in 1992, which were subsequently purchased personally by Michael Smurfit.

From then he has turned to landscapes and horses (especially horse fairs), his style becoming more fluid and Jack B. Yeats like ! He has returned to portraiture occasionally, most notably a C.J. Haughey portrait which was publicly auctioned making Euro 2,600 at St. Stephen's Green Auction House, Dublin.

Exhibitions:

• Front Room Gallery, Arbutus Lodge Hotel 1992 and 1995
• Saudi Arabia 1995/96
• The Private Collector Gallery, Innishannon 1999 - present
• Fuller Building East 57th and 5th Ave NYC (10 day exhibition October 2002)
• People's Gallery, Fenn's Quay, Cork, present