He has exhibited with the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Royal Ulster Academy in 2016 and has been shortlisted for the second time as Artist of the year 2017 in association with Artists and Illustrators magazine where he will be exhibiting in the Mall Galleries, London in Jan 2017. Keep up to date with upcoming events and artwork by signing up to his newsletter and blog. Connor Maguire was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1977 and studied at the University of Ulster in Belfast. Connor has now been working steadily as a freelance artist specialising in painting from watercolours to oils, printmaking in the form of woodcuts, linocuts, drawings in charcoal and graphite exhibiting on a local and national level. Connors paintings are inspired from anything ranging from everyday events, personal experiences, friends or family or just an idea of what something is.
