Eileen Morey is a third-generation artist whose work covers a wide range of media and subjects.
Her artistic roots run deep. Her mother, Muriel Bernier – a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art – created the artwork for Disney’s Fantasyland board game, among many other projects.
Eileen’s father, William Bernard Morey, was a photographer and noted calligrapher.
Growing up in Belmont, Massachusetts – and in a household where art was an everyday activity – Eileen understood that art could be both imaginative and well made.
She studied theatre arts at Colby-Sawyer College and history at Harvard University’s Extension School. Later, she earned an Archaeological Illustrator Certificate from Boston University.
That blend of the arts + history continues to inform her work. It probably helps that she’s lived in eight U.S. states and traveled extensively in Canada, Ireland, and the United Kingdom. You’ll see evidence of those cultural influences in her art.
Her creative projects have included wearable art, zines, mixed-media work, and – in the era of GeoCities and Yahoo!Groups – she founded some of the earliest online art communities.
She’s illustrated college newspapers such as MIT’s Tech Talk, books including HoToGAMIT. She’s written and illustrated articles for Professional Quilter magazine, and – in the 1980s – had a monthly arts and crafts column in Lady’s Circle magazine.
She’s illustrated books for Chilton, Schiffer, Sterling, and Dorling Kindersley (DK) publishers, among others. Eileen also wrote and illustrated Sewing and Collecting Vintage Fashions.
Today, she continues to design book covers, but also – under two pen names (that she keeps in confidence) – Eileen is also a journalist and best-selling author in niches related to travel and history.
By contrast, she admits to being Aisling D’Art, a pen name adopted for privacy in the early days of the Internet, she’s taught art at many national and international events. They’ve included Artfest, Art & Soul, and Dragon Con. She’s also published several hand-drawn coloring books, and maintains a popular art art-and-lifestyle website at Aisling.net.
Today, Eileen’s continuing experimental and genre-defying work still bears the name Aisling D’Art.
And yes, some of her work still bears the Irish spelling of her name, Eibhlin.
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Background
Education
- Colby-Sawyer College 1969 – 1970
- Harvard Extension School 1970 – 1972
- Mission: Renaissance (Los Angeles) 1974 – 1975
- Boston University 1982
Affiliations 1982 – 1985
- Concord Art Association (Massachusetts)
- York Art Association (Maine)
- International Plein Air Painters
- NH Plein Air
- ESBQ Plus
Galleries 1982 – 1985
- Harbor Browsery, York Harbor, Maine
- Maple Hill Pottery in Perkins Cove, Ogunquit & Auburn, Maine
- Abacus Gallery, Boothbay Harbor, Maine
- The Friend, Wiscasset, Maine
- Twas the Night, Northeast Harbor, Maine
- Jaffrey & Chase, Blue Hill, Maine
- The Carriage Shop, Sullivan, Maine
Need to contact Eileen?
See her Contact page for the best way to reach her.
NOTE: Currently, Eileen and her husband are on the road, but – by October – she expects to be back online more often.