Amber Broughton: 'I was used to the mountains and the sea and the peace and quiet'

The West Cork artist's love of nature is reflected in her output 

Amber Broughton's work, including this detail of a European bee-eater, are evocative of nature - and indicative of a natural eye for detail and realism

 It is not difficult to see where Amber Broughton’s love of nature comes from. Her home is just yards from the sea, a short distance from Castletownbere on the Beara peninsula. Apart from the four years she spent studying for her degree at the Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, it’s where she has lived all her life, and where she now works at her gallery cum studio, An Bhroinn.

Broughton is currently showing work in the group exhibition, Groundwork, at the Glucksman Gallery in Cork, as well as in a solo exhibition, Beautiful Blow-ins, at the Allihies Mine Museum. Both feature her incredibly detailed coloured pencil drawings of wildlife.