Thelma Mansfield: ‘There I’d be in at the drawing room table, drawing or painting. Totally and utterly absorbed’
The former RTÉ presenter talks about her new life as an artist
Thelma Mansfield has always had a passion for painting
Thelma Mansfield lives between Spiddal and Dublin. An artist who exhibits her work on Merrion Square, she was the presenter of ‘Live at 3’ on RTÉ for over a decade. She has two sons with her late husband, the photographer John Morris.
As children, we spent time in Kerry, Ballymacthomas, my mum’s part of the world. That’s where I first went to school. It was just beautiful, rural, a wildflower meadow in the back garden, a donkey and a pony.
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