Welcome! Studio West is an artist led Studio/Gallery and Workshop created by Manon West and her father Richard West. Located in Cleggan, Connemara, Studio West is both a working studio and a gallery open to the public. We aim to show the skill and process of creating artwork, where its made, by the artists themselves.
Studio West began out out of necessity. Richard needed a new workshop space and jumped at the opportunity to relocate to Cleggan. To our surprise, the space was big enough for not only a woodworking workshop, but could be divided into two, for a clean studio/gallery in the front.
Manon, being a painter, is able to work in the studio section (with minimum mess) and run the gallery, while Richard can be seen woodturning through a window into his workshop.
The aim of Studio West is to provide the experience of meeting the makers and see the process of making artwork in their studio.
Richard turning a bowl in the workshop.
The 'Making of' Studio West
It's shelving time
Painting our sign above the door- a look of serious concentration.
Our very first layout plan!
First day setting up workshop- and it was never clean again.
Manon works in multiple mediums- oil paint, watercolour, pastels, ink and printmaking, as seen above.
