Gráinne graduated IADT 1979, joined Graphic Studio Dublin shortly after, and furthered studies in lithography with a Fulbright Scholarship to Tamarind Institute, New Mexico in 1984.
Visiting Boston Museum Fine Arts she fell for the etchings of James McNeill Whistler. After 2 years at Central St.Martin’s, London, Postgrad Printmaking with Norman Ackroyd as her teacher she began making etchings using Ackroyd’s dictum: ‘You can get all the colour you want with black ink and white paper’. Cuffe disagreed.
