“Weatherhead manages to skilfully fuse sensitive delicacy of form with boldness of outline to create works that are both gentle and striking. She splices patterns with shape and form.”

Marissa Weatherhead is primarily a painter of still life, however, she is also a landscape painter. Born in 1962, Marissa studied mainly at the Royal College of Art and at the Gloucestershire College of Art and Design where she obtained a first class degree in Fine Art. 

Marissa’s still life paintings owe something to the Cubist paintings of Braque and Picasso (whose work she admires greatly), but her greatest inspiration comes from the more arabesque influence of Matisse. 

Marissa has exhibited widely both in Ireland and England, as well as in Europe. She was awarded the Boise Travel Scholarship, John Minton Award in 1988 and her work is in the Arthur Anderson collection.