The work of the late Kinvara artist Debi O’Hehir has been celebrated with a special, albeit brief, retrospective at the Kinvara Courthouse Gallery.

The show, which opened on Friday and finished on Wednesday, focused on one of Debi’s great passions – horses – which she explored constantly in work.

Debi, who died in 2015, was born in England in 1962 and grew up in Kinvara where she lived for years. She studied art at the Galway RTC (now ATU Galway), graduating in 1988 and went on to create beautiful work, using pen, ink and paint, usually on Fabriano or Arches paper.

She also made many large and small sculptures, using bronze, wire and ceramics, and these, alongside her drawings, featured in the show, which was opened by her great friend, the poet Enda Coyle-Greene, and attended by family and friends who shared fond memories of a great artist.

Pitured: Poet Enda Coyle-Greene (centre) officially opened the retrospective exhibition of work by her friend, the late Debi O’Hehir, at the Kinvara Courthouse Gallery on Friday. She is pictured with Debi’s cousins, sisters Róisín and Siobhan Forde. PHOTO: DONAL GREENE.