A businessman is enjoying unexpected success as an artist, after he started drawing again in locked down Dublin. Shane Gillen's portraits of leading Irish figures have quickly become a social media hit, with commissions rolling in.
Mr Gillen, who is director of creative management and talent agency Big and Bright, said he had not done any drawing since he left school.
But the lockdown gave him the opportunity to rekindle his love of art. "As a kid, I would have drawn all the time. I was top of the class in art at school and I loved it. "But then life happened and work happened.
I just hadn't drawn in years. And then when we were all forced into isolation, I decided to pick up the pencil and just see what I could do," he said.