You will not believe what this Kilkenny artist can do on his iPad

As a child, Noel Campion loved art but a lack of funds meant he never got to finish his degree course. As he got older art became something he associated with his youth — that is until he discovered the Apple app, Procreate, on his iPad.

I remember when I was in second year in secondary school deciding that I wanted to go to art college. My parents thought I was mad and told me that artists never had any money and that you couldn’t make a living out of it, but sure I knew better. I had such a passion for drawing and painting at the time that I didn’t even consider any other career, I just wanted to follow my dream.

Hailing from Kilkenny, I succeeded in getting a place in Crawford Art College in Cork and started there in 1984, and so my journey as an artist began. In the summer of 1985, I managed to support myself by street drawing on St Patrick St, along with selling photocopies of drawings I did of pop stars of the time such as David Bowie, George Michael, Phil Lynott, and Meat Loaf.