Painter Jane O’Malley was born in Montreal, Canada. Between 1969 and 1990 she lived and worked as an artist in St. Ives, Cornwall. In 1973 she married artist Tony O’Malley and in 1990 they settled in Ireland with regular visits to the Isles of Scilly, the Bahamas, and the Canary Islands. O’Malley has exhibited extensively including a major retrospective at IMMA in 2005. Her work is held in the collections of the Arts Council of Ireland, the Office of Public Works, and Dublin City University.