Fuchsia Macaree 'Floating' Print Available

Artist: Fuchsia Macaree
Title: Floating
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: (A1) 59.4 x 84.1 cm
Edition: 150
Price: €135

Fuchsia Macaree is an Irish illustrator whose bright, pared-back scenes celebrate the quiet poetry of everyday life. Born in Dublin and now based in County Clare, she trained in Visual Communication at the National College of Art & Design before completing an MA in Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, London. This grounding in design taught her to distil complex ideas into clear visual language, a skill that underpins her instantly recognisable style: solid blocks of warm colour, simplified perspectives and bold, looping outlines that guide the eye straight to the heart of the story.

Her imagery springs from people watching and coastal walks. Sketchbooks fill with fleeting moments two friends sharing crisps and pints at 8:40 pm, swimmers greeting a high tide, cyclists paused under streetlights which she then translates into prints, murals, editorial illustrations and even way-finding maps. Crucial details remain (a packet of Tayto, the curve of a Galway bay), yet backgrounds are stripped to flat planes of coral, teal and butter yellow, allowing recognisable warmth to shine through.

Macaree’s client list spans cultural institutions and global brands. She has created campaigns for Google’s Dublin data centre, rebranded Center Parcs with nature-rich graphics, designed mental health imagery for the text service 50808 and drawn tidal calendars that encourage wild swimming along the Wild Atlantic Way. Her bestselling Great Irish Weather Book (Gill Books, 2018) cements her gift for turning meteorological data into engaging visual narrative.

Recent exhibitions at Hang Tough Contemporary and Plámás Gallery showcase large scale prints and painted panels that continue to elevate ordinary Irish life into joyful, luminous art, proving that simplicity, when rooted in sincere observation, can carry the weight of shared memory and collective delight.