Patrick Walshe is an Irish artist living and working in the Wicklow hills south of Dublin. He has had a 50 year career as a painter living, working and exhibiting in Ireland, the USA, Italy and Abu Dhabi. He paints mainly in oils on silver or gold leaf on canvas. By painting on a leaf surface he creates a parallax effect depending on lighting and the position of the viewer. The majority of the paintings vary in size between 70 and 100 cm