Martina McAteer is an awarded Irish artist. Her work has a unique visionary quality and is very poetic. There is a beautiful ethereal dreamlike quality to all her works . They seem both delicate and strong at the same time. Her influences range from literature,classical painting,old frescoes as well as naive art. She often fuses many of these elements into her works and likes to juxtapose different influences. She was voted "People's Choice" with Pen and Brush inc. in New York as well as being selected for several solo shows.