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Ramie Leahy is an Irish artist and a co-founder of Ireland's first international arts festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival. One of the group of Kilkenny Colourists, a group he founded with his peers (Francis Tansey ) and Tony O'Malley, he has variously been described as an impressionist and a surrealist, whose works range from landscapes to political satire and natural history studies. ==Early life== Ramie Leahy was born on August 28, 1950 in Kilkenny, Ireland. He was brought up on a farm outside Kilkenny City, one of four children. His father died when he was aged seven and he was raised by his mother, a local school teacher and intellectual; she entertained a series of poets, writers and intellectuals of the period at their home in Deerpark, Kilkenny. She was also responsible for taking him to visit the galleries of Dublin, London, and Paris as a young child, where he has said he first saw Turner and the French Impressionists, and his artistic leanings began. He attended primary school at Loreto and then St. Kieran's College. Here Leahy combined a rebellious streak with an after-school occupation of promoting concerts of 1960s pop acts like Thin Lizzy, Them, and Granny’s Intentions caused some friction with the clergy. After finishing school in Kilkenny he began a tour of art colleges including Limerick School of Art where he studied painting, drawing and sculpture, the National College of Art, Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Trinity College Dublin. He was awarded a scholarship to study on a Unesco course of museum science and visual communication in Florence, Italy. Subsequently he studied architecture in Dublin Institute of Technology Dublin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ramie Leahy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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