Working across painting, print, mixed media, and community murals, Bernie creates abstracted landscapes shaped by mountains, sea, and open skies along the southern coast. Her practice moves between the intimate and the expansive, exploring horizon, texture, and rhythm as ways of holding place, memory, and shared experience.
Bernie Hurley is a fine art painter & textile artist based on the south coast of County Waterford, Ireland.
Creating immersive, yet intimate landscape work, rooted in a deep connection to place.
The softened mountain backdrop and everchanging sea shape both her life and practice, offering constant inspiration.
Working across a range of materials and scales, from delicate monoprints to large canvases, her work is instinctive, fluid, and grounded in her affection for the wildness of her surroundings.
Rooted in the landscapes of Ireland’s southern coast and informed by textile traditions, these works explore horizon, texture, and memory. Layered mark-making, pattern, and rhythm combine to create abstracted surfaces that feel both grounded and tactile.
Bernie brings her love of art into the schools and communities around her, working collaboratively and attentively in shared creative spaces. These exchanges, continually inform and renew her own practice as much as the work she makes.
