Laurence O'Toole is a realist painter in both oil and acrylic, whose narrative work is a melding of figurative and nature with a surrealist approach to convey the message in his works. A self-taught artist from Ireland, he has had many solo shows, at home and abroad and is present in many group shows including museums in the USA. After travelling and working abroad for many years he is now back residing in Kilkenny, Ireland. He is developing a series of triptyches and quadriptyches to help further illustrate his narrative based works. He has won two awards at the Royal Ulster Academy and has shown at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and Royal Scottish Academy. His work has been collected by the OPW and featured in publications and in collections of Banks and state institutions. He has also completed many residencies, including Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Spain and France and is part of the time capsule programme that has 30,000 pieces of digital art, music and literature that was on board the Nova Lander that landed on the moon this year and is a new library of humanity for future generations. Currently his work is on the 20 year anniversary of 9/11, which is touring the States. He is part of the Italian Biennale in Tuscany and the London Biennale. He shows in Gallery 33 Contemporary in the USA , and Gallery1608 and Hambly & Hambly in the North and The Kilkenny Gallery, here in Ireland.