The Official Home of M.B. Kiernan ART
WELCOME TO BADGERFOX ART STUDIO!
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Who's M.B. Kiernan?
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"Hello, people! ... My name is M.B. Kiernan, but you can call me Maria."
Maria Bernadette Kiernan is an Irish artist and illustrator, born and raised in Athleague, Co. Roscommon, Ireland. Since she was very young, she always enjoyed drawing and making up stories; later on, in her teenage years, as she quietly struggled with poor self-confidence and mental health issues, she found art was a safe-place for her - and it still is. She began to take her talent more seriously and build her skills in various media, such as oil, acrylic and watercolour painting, graphite sketching and digital illustration.
She spent a year in an animation and illustration course. Prior to that she studied music production in Limerick Institute of Technology, and has a Level 7 degree in Music Technology and Production. She also partook in an eight-week course in writing for film.
An all-round creative individual, she also enjoys knitting, crochet, sewing and embroidery and hopes to share her projects in these fields soon. She has been writing songs since she was fifteen and would love to record and produce her own album. A storyteller at heart, she also hopes to share her original fictional tales with the world someday.
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A Brief History of BadgerFox Art Studio
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Back in 2021, when my little art business was greatly impacted by the global pandemic, I tried my best to get this show back on the road again. I decided to finally get a new designated space for my art and move it out of my tiny little bedroom, so I bought a garden shed. A regular old log-style chalet. Together with the help of my parents and my brother (and his girlfriend), we transformed this little shed into my art studio, where I could create art and work, whenever I got work.
The studio didn't have a name for two whole years. I continued to work under my business name of M.B. Kiernan ART.
Unfortunately, things didn't get back to normal for my business and I eventually had to shut it down and take a part-time job. I'm still determined to get my business back up and running again someday, and so I've made a fresh new start with a rebrand.
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The studio finally has a name. That name is BadgerFox Art Studio.
What's a BadgerFox?
"Back in March 2010, I adopted a beautiful border collie cross, whom I named Messi. Due to her distinctive black, white and ginger markings, my brother often called her a "badger-fox"!
Fast forward to 2023, and Messi is now an old girl of 13 years with a bed in my studio so I can spend as much time with her as I possibly can.
While rearranging my studio, I mentioned to my brother that I would love to name the studio so that a rebrand might help with business. We brainstormed and exhausted all possible variations of "blue art studio" (my shed is painted forget-me-not blue on the outside) before I felt on the verge of giving up with the name. And then my brother offered the perfect alternative that had nothing to do with a blue shed, but had everything to do with my best friend.
BadgerFox Art Studio was born.
My little badger-fox Messi is still a fit and healthy dog, and she is now immortalised in both the studio name and the logo for my new branding. Love ya, me oul' girl!"