b. 1939

Born in Dublin. Alan commenced his artistic career in Belfast in the late fifties as an apprentice linen designer in John Shaw Brown. After three years he returned to Dublin and worked in a leading advertising company as a commercial artist for many years. During his time in Dublin he attended the College of Art.
His experience of the outdoors especially to the Artic has had an influence on his paintings.
He has various group shows in Dublin and Belfast. He lives and works for part of the year in Provence in the South of France.