Maria Simonds-Gooding
Maria Simonds-Gooding RHA (born 1939) is an Irish painter and printmaker based in the Dingle Peninsula. Simonds-Gooding is a member of Aosdána. At the age of seven, Simonds-Gooding moved with her family from British India to Dooks, County Kerry, Ireland, later relocating to the Dingle Peninsula in her late twenties. She attended National College of Art and Design in Dublin (1962-63), Le Centre de Peinture in Brussels (1963-64) and Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, England (1966-68). During her final year studying in Bath, Simonds-Gooding lived in the Academy and began working with plaster, influenced by her painting tutor Adrian Heath. Source: Wikipedia.org