Donald Teskey

First sales of the year can be a good time to find value in auction houses

Superb paintings by Walter Osborne, Paul Henry and Jack B Yeats included in four sales

Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs

Renting artwork can be tax efficient for new apartment developments and commercial offices and it's a great way for gallery owners to showcase well-known artists

Auctions, results & fairs: upcoming sales include a diamond galloping horse brooch

Set of Ian Fleming first editions, Tiffany yellow diamond cluster ring, Waterford Crystal

Signed edition of James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man fetches £17,000

The Manchester-born drawing specialist had a major impact on the Irish artistic landscape

Meanwhile, RDS Craft Awards gives €10,000 bursaries to five of Ireland’s nascent talents

Royal Hibernian Academy event seen as a barometer for wider Irish art market

With 600 pieces to fit in, famous names jostle for space with newcomers, but there’s no one at this party you wouldn’t be happy to go home with

A new app allows prospective buyers to visualise paintings on their own walls

Auction results

‘Fiona and I enjoy trawling markets, always in anticipation of the perfect find’

Senator David Norris declares himself “bored senseless” by Budget 2017 until talk turns to pay

Mother’s Tankstation and the Oliver Sears Gallery have designs on the international art fairs

‘The idea of art as a career never entered my head until a school trip to France when 15’

Paula Rowan’s latest collection of gloves was inspired by the colours of the sea, which sparkle through the unadorned windows of her Sandycove apartment

A round-up of the best nights out across the country

This Dublin gallery owner describes his style as contemporary with strong classical influences, but for all his eclectic interests he favours painting over other art forms

The Belfast painter's work has aged very well

Against the odds, the RHA is still around, with this year’s exhibition one of its best. And despite our changing tastes, portrait painting has survived the advent of the selfie

An atmosphere of strangeness permeates artist Martin Gale’s work – which makes him the perfect choice to paint the ESB’s storage station in the Wicklow Mountains

Visual Art: The Twelve Bens are vividly captured in Wilson’s picture book; plus reviews of Kevin Cosgrove and selected works from the collection of Pat and Antoinette Murphy

The beauty in the RHA annual show is that while among the 560-plus works, you’re unlikely to be ambushed by art theory

John Shinnors has put together a showcase of creativity at the City of Culture’s school of art and design

Hennessy join forces with National Gallery of Ireland in new award