About Jolene
Jolene Matthews
BA Vis. Communications
I’ve always loved art and drawing at school and after a year of Marketing at DKIT, decided to take a more creative route and enrolled in a portfolio course in O’Fiaich College, Dundalk. At first, the intention was to venture into Fine Art but life took a different path and a course in Visual Communications at Dublin Institute of Technology (now TU Dublin) followed. I have worked in Graphic Design for 17 years and back in 2017, while “drawing” a logo for a client, my long lost love for fine art was rekindled.
I mostly draw from observation, as this was encouraged in college (although photos are sometimes hard to avoid) and enjoy Plein Air outdoor art and Life Drawing. I also enjoy crafting with paper, wood glue and about anything I can get my hands on, but these days most of my work is computer based.
Jolene's Drawings & Designs
Jolene’s Drawings was thought up back in 2019, when I visited art galleries and realised that apart from original work and prints, there weren’t very many affordable art gifts for people to buy. As a designer, I was always looking for imagery to create cards, prints, books, coasters and bookmarks so decided to use my own imagery on these so that if the paintings themselves never got sold, the art could still be enjoyed.

