Born in 1971, Aia Leu-Allin is an artist and illustrator, when young she studied figure sketching in Vevey, Switzerland. A third-generation artist, she is from a creative lineage; her grandmother, Swiss artist Eva Aeppli, was married to the renowned sculptor Jean Tinguely. Having moved to Kenmare in 1989, Aia’s passion for drawing developed into a career spanning over 30 years as a landscape painter. She has illustrated and published art books and notably painted an award-winning tarot deck. She lives and has a studio just outside Kenmare, nestled in the Caha Mountains.

Her paintings and artwork are available from her studio (by appointment only), online through her website shop, and also at the Kenmare Courtyard Gallery Co-operative in the heart of Kenmare, open 7 days a week.