Patrick Walshe is an Irish born artist, now based in the Wicklow hills south of Dublin. He has had a 50 year career as a painter, exhibiting in Ireland, the USA, London, and Abu Dhabi.For 10 years he lived in New York and Los Angeles before returning to Ireland, with his wife, the designer Rosalind Walshe.He paints mainly in oils on silver leaf on canvas. By painting on a silver leaf surface he creates a parallax effect depending on lighting and the position of the viewer.