Fionnuala Lanigan is a visual artist based in Ireland. 

She graduated with Distinction in Painting and Drawing Diploma from the RHA School/TU Dublin.

She is currently studying a Master’s Program in Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD and is pursuing TURPS Correspondence Course, London for the second year. She holds a BSc in Pharmacy from Trinity College Dublin.

She is best known for her large abstract oil paintings. Her current work explore the complexities of being human, where impermanence, vitality and decline coexist. Through colour, dissolving edges, fluid brushwork and gestural marks, she makes transience visible. Rather than treating painting as static description, she uses it to register the passage of time. The work sits within the lineage of abstract expressionism and memento mori . The flower’s brevity offers a compressed model of human experience.

The work is shaped by the duality of the botanical, where visual beauty is held in tension with underlying chemical complexity. Her background in pharmacy informs her view of plants as biologically complex rather than merely symbolic. Blooms carry compounds that are both therapeutic and toxic, complicating the conventional association of flowers with sentiment or decoration.

She received an Agility Award from the Arts Council in 2026 and has spent time on residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Her work has been acquired by the Office of Public Works for the Irish State Art Collection, Ireland, and private collectors in USA and Ireland.