'I’ve the woods around me, and I’m beside the sea': Currabinny artist Kim Roberts 

Kim Roberts was in her late 40s when she decided to do a fine art degree, a decision that changed her life 

Kim Roberts at her studio in Currabinny, Co Cork. Picture: Chani Anderson

It is hardly surprising that Kim Roberts’ new exhibition of paintings, A New Beginning… in the End, is inspired by her experience of living by the sea. Roberts works from the studio at her home in Currabinny, on the shores of Cork Harbour, just a few miles downriver from where she grew up in Monkstown.

“I have this huge connection with the harbour,” she says. “I learned to swim in the sea when I was very young, and I'd always spend hours down on the beach, discovering stuff. I still do.”