Aoife's Art

We discovered that Aoife Brown is an art student at Drogheda Institute of Further Education and she also has her own Facebook Gallery page displaying some of her work.

We caught up with Aoife to find out a little more about her artistic talents:

Are you going to be a Tattoo Artist?

I’ve never been sure where I would go in life, but I’ve always wanted to do something in art. I wanted to be a tattoo artist for a long time but it’s extremely difficult to get into that work. You need to know someone to get a job in it. As long as my future involves art I’ll be happy.

I have an obsession with drawing dragons which I’ve always loved. One of the oldest drawings I have is from when I was 6 years old and it’s a crude drawing of a dragon sitting on a castle.

How long does it take to create a piece?

Depending on the size of the drawing it can take up to 6 hours. The A3 and A2 drawings take about 4 to 6 hours, not including breaks and the smaller A4 drawings would take me from 45 minutes to 3 hours depending on the theme.

Have you entered competitions ?

I’ve won a few throughout my life for art. In primary school I won 3 awards for drawing however I couldn’t remember the competition. I also won the Robert Ballagh LMETB competition 2017 coming first place in my category.

I also won the Halloween makeup competition this year.