Sean Fingleton

Sean Fingleton (born 1950) is an Irish visual artist who works mainly in oil and is noted for Irish landscapes and seascapes.

Biography Fingleton was born in Malin, County Donegal in 1950. He attended University College Dublin, where he earned a BA in Philosophy and English Studies. and the National College of Art and Design.

Recognition and holdings Fingleton received the Royal Hibernian Academy’s Fergus O'Ryan Award in 1983 and the Guinness Peat Aviation Emerging Artists Award in 1986, as well as the Independent Artists Painting Bursary. He was elected by his peers to the Irish national artists' academy, Aosdána.

Two of his works are in the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, his painting, Coastal Scene, is part of the European Parliament art collection in Strasbourg, and his work is also on display at the Royal Hospital in Gloucester in England, and the residence of the President of Ireland, Aras an Uachtarain.