Biography
Cora graduated with a First Class Honours in Art and Design from the Belfast College of Art, in 1970. After living in Africa for three years, where she continued to produce collages and oil paintings, Cora returned to live in N.Ireland.
Cora has received numerous private and public commissions, including several from Newry and Mourne Council, N.I. Fire Authority, and Royal Mail. She has often exhibited in the Laing National Art Competition, several times reaching the London Finals and has won First Prize in the Laing N.I. Region. Cora was also awarded the Perpetual Silver Medal by The Arts Society of Ulster for a portrait.
Over the years Cora has become an accomplished painter in all media. Now she is using this knowledge in a more searching and experimental way to create works, which are gaining interest in the Irish Art world.
Cora has paintings in public and private collections in Ireland, U.K, Canada. U.S.A and S. Africa.
