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Meet Anna Flynn
Artistic Journey
Growing up in South Co.Dublin, creativity often offered a quiet refuge within a world that often celebrated achievement over authenticity. Although Anna had plans to study art after school, fear ultimately led her towards a more conventional path studying marketing, innovation and technology in DCU. Life, however had other plans for Anna and soon called her back to the creative path she had always imagined for herself.
Following a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, art became an essential part of Anna's healing journey. Through therapy, poetry, painting, yoga and time spent in nature, she rediscovered not only her creativity, but a more authentic way of living. Art became more than something she made; it became a way of listening, making meaning, and exploring life's deeper questions.
After graduating from DCU, Anna chose a different path. Alongside minding children she began her yoga training and apprenticing with Irish artists Eoin O'Connor and Helen Steele. From 2021 onwards Anna began building a life centred around creativity, wellbeing and community.
Today, alongside running Clifton Lane Yoga Studio in Dublin with her mum, Mairead, Anna continues to create paintings, retreats and immersive experiences that invite people to slow down, reconnect with themselves and celebrate the fullness of being human.
Her work is inspired by the places where art, psychology, spirituality and the natural world meet. Through themes of vulnerability, intimacy, shame, sexuality, belonging, joy and playfulness, she explores the stories we carry, the parts of ourselves we hide, and the freedom that comes from bringing them gently into the light.
Anna believes creativity belongs to everyone. Whether through a painting, a retreat, a yoga class or a shared conversation, her hope is always the same: that people leave feeling a little more connected, a little more curious, and a little more at home within themselves.
For Anna, painting isn't simply something she does.
It's how she makes sense of the world.
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