Jo Tinney is an artist working mainly in watercolour and pastel. She is the only Irish artist to have won the John Laing Award twice in 1995 and 1998. In 1996 she was presented with the Max McCabe Award by the Ulster Society of Women Artists. Her work is included in private and public collections in many parts of the world. Van Morrison, Bob Dylan and President Clinton are among some of the people who own her work.