About CELINA BUCKLEY
Celina Buckley is an artist, author, children’s book illustrator and part-time primary teacher from Co. Cork, Ireland.
An author and illustrator with a Masters in Children’s Book Illustration from Cambridge School of Art, her first picture book is a retelling of ‘The Salmon of Knowledge’ published in 2019. It was used for a storyboarding lesson on RTÉ’s Home School Hub programme in 2020. A paperback version is now available.
As an emerging artist her work has been selected for exhibitions in GOMA, Waterford, December 2022, Ranelagh Arts, Dublin, September 2022, Cill Rialaig, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, 2021 and at K-Fest, Killorglin, Co. Kerry, 2021.
She received an Agility Award from the Arts Council in 2021 which helped make her ‘DOCKLANDS’ solo art exhibition possible, at No. 1 Horgan’s Quay, Cork City.
Earlier in 2022 Celina Buckley was selected as a finalist on SKY Landscape Artist of the Year (UK and Northern Ireland) when she submitted one of her ‘DOCKLANDS’ creations with her application - The ‘R & H Hall’ collage. January 2023 the series was broadcasted on SKY TV (Series 8 Episode 3 - Castle Ward).
Most recently Celina was invited to create a collection of work for a solo art exhibition at Doneraile Court, Doneraile Estate & Demesne, Co. Cork, June 2023.
The human and natural environment are a living source of inspiration for Celina’s art. Once she is on location with an easel set up, creating from observation becomes a multi-sensory experience for her. Some have called these moments ‘epiphanies’, but for her it is discovering a visual language that conveys that excitement - being alert to the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Celina’s work explores landscapes where human and non-human meet, teeming with life and moods, the frontier between civilisation and wildness, encompassing the tension between change and movement, a sense of growth with particular reference to the Cork City Docklands.