Celebrating 60 years!

The Dublin Art Society (DAS) was co-founded in 1961 by Dorothy Armstrong and Kenneth Webb. We have a mixture of over 60 talented professional and amateur artists in our ranks.


  • “To be an artist… you have to be very severe with your amount of energy… To have an overriding hobby, that's the secret. Mine was an overriding hobby, I couldn't get rid of it.”

    Mary Swanzy

  • “I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way—things I had no words for.”

    Georgia O Keeffe

  • “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

    Picasso

  • There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

    Mary Cassatt

  • It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

    Berthe Morisot

  • If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

    Edward Hopper

  • “The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”

    Lucian Freud

  • Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

    Vincent Van Gogh

  • I paint flowers so they will not die.

    Frida Kahlo