My Story
Shane Monahan is a former professional rugby player having played with teams such as Leinster rugby, Connacht rugby, Rotherham rugby, Gloucester rugby and Munster rugby. During his rugby playing days Shane would like to unwind by pursuing his other passion, art and design. This passion soon turned into a successful business which earned Shane a reputation as the Rugby artist.
Shane scoring a try while playing for Gloucester rugby in the English premiership
Shane in the process of painting a portrait during his time at Munster rugby.
Shane has always enjoyed sketching, drawing and painting. This hobby eventually led him to study at the Dublin Institute of technology and attain a BScs honours degree in Product design. This degree taught Shane valuable lessons about the world of engineering, business, marketing and graphic design. When Shane retired from the world of professional rugby in 2015 he began to focus all of his energy and design ability into his new start up business venture Limor.
Shane speaking in his role as Limor CEO
Limor is a new social audio platform that allows users to instantly record, edit and share audio and podcasts from their phone anywhere, anytime in a social environment which also allows for instant voice interaction and communication.
What Instagram did for images and Youtube did for video Limor does for voice and podcasts. It was due to this new focus on building a technology company that Shane put a pause on creating his artwork.
The year is now 2024 and Limor is going from strength to strength. After a long time Shane has begun to paint again. Painting is a great way for Shane to relax and "switch off" from the rigours of running a fast paced social audio technology company.
Moving into the future Shane will continue to paint rugby related artwork as well as more artwork inspired by his love of movies & television.
Shane with former Gloucester and England rugby player James Simpson-Daniel and his portrait painting.
Irish Rugby Legend
Paul O'Connell
Former Irish rugby captain, former British and Irish lion captain and Munster captain the legend himself Paul O’Connell!
This portrait captures Paul in a moment of thought whilst playing for Ireland.
The one-off painting and limited edition prints are individually signed by Paul himself.
Leinster rugby legend
Isa Nacewa
Isa moved to Leinster in 2008 Shane was in the Leinster academy himself that year. Isa would become a Leinster legend over two spells he won four European Cups, and captained the team to European Champions Cup and Pro14titles in his final season.
Gloucester Rugby Legend
Billy Twelvetrees
Former teammates Billy Twelvetrees and Shane both signed for Gloucester in 2012 playing many times together in the cherry and white. Billy would go on to become a Kingsholm crowd favourite making over 270 appearances for the Cherry & Whites over an 11-year period.
Billy would play for England 22 times and toured with the British & Irish lions in 2013
Gloucester Rugby Captain
Lewis Ludlow
Shane first met Lewis at Gloucester rugby in 2012. At the time Lewis was a young Gloucester rugby academy kid. Since then he has amassed over 200 caps for Gloucester and is currently captain of the club.
irish Rugby legend
Sean O'Brien
One of the most successful Irish rugby players in history Sean O'Brien was a British & Irish Lion in both 2013 and 2017. He proudly represented Ireland 56 times between 2009 and 2019, and was selected for both the 2011 and 2015 world cups. Sean won 4 champions cups with Leinster, as well as being named 2010-2011 ERC European player of the year. Shane and Sean played under age rugby together with Leinster & Ireland both being members of the Irish U20 grand slam winning team in 2007
4ed campaign
Ed Slater
In July 2022 Gloucester Rugby player Ed Slater announced his diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease (MND) and thus the 4Ed campaign was created to raise awareness and funds in support of Ed and his family’s battle with the disease.
Shane wanted to do what he could to help raise funds so painted and sold a limited edition 4ED print each signed by the man himself.
You can donate to 4ED here
Gloucester rugby legend
Ben Morgan
Ben Morgan and Shane Monahan both signed for Gloucester rugby in 2012 playing 3 seasons together before Shane left the club. Ben retired from rugby in 2023 having played 187 for the club and 31 times for England. It was a pleasure and an honour for Shane to paint this limited edition pop art players portrait print of Ben for his rugby testimonial. This is an extremely limited run of prints with only 8 prints available. 8 being Bens number of choice!
Former England rugby star
Andy Goode
The second portrait of Andy Goode painted by Shane the first was for his testimonial in 2015. This example was for a the Wooden Spoon Charity auction where Andy was guest speaker. Andy played professionally in England, France and South Africa featuring for Leicester Tigers, Saracens, Worcester Warriors, Wasps and Newcastle Falcons in England's Premiership Rugby, CA Brive in France's Top 14 and for Super Rugby's Sharks in South Africa. Andy is now one half of one of the worlds biggest rugby podcasts "The Rugby Pod"
England & Gloucester rugby legend
Jonny May
Shane played with Jonny May in the back 3 of the Gloucester team many times between 2012 - 2013. One of the best wingers to ever play for England, Jonny May played 121 times for Gloucester Rugby before moving toLeicester Tigers in 2017. He was back in the Cherry and White shirt before too long and returned to the club in 2020 where he now has over 150 appearances.
Rugby Referee Legend
Nigel Owens
Nigel Owens MBE is recognised as one of the world's best rugby referees. This artwork was a commission for Aitch & Aitch Bee
Former England rugby star
James Haskell
James Haskell is one of the best-known rugby players and sportspeople in the UK. Having played 77 times for England, as well as playing around the world and for the British and Irish Lions, James is known as much for his ability on the field as his personality off it.
Gloucester Rugby legend
Charlie Sharples
The Cherry and White winger played 275 times for his childhood club and scored 455 points in a career which saw him become one of Gloucester Rugby’s biggest contributors in the professional era.
An England international, Sharples played for his country four times, scoring twice against Fiji at Twickenham in the 2011 Autumn Internationals.
Shane and Charlie played together many times at Gloucester and remain good friends to this day.
Gloucester Rugby player
Henry Trinder
Henry Trinder is an English rugby union player who played for Gloucester Rugby club in the Aviva Premiership. Awarded the honour from the loyal Gloucester fans, Trinder celebrated his Testimonial Year in 2019/20. With his time at Kingsholm Stadium coming to a close, Trinder closed out his Gloucester time in April 2021 after making a grand total 172 appearances for the club scoring 46 tries. Shane painted this portrait of his friend and former team mate to mark the occasion
The talented
Danny Cipriani
Danny Cipriani is a former English international rugby player who played for Gloucester Rugby club in the Aviva Premiership 2018-2020 playing 41 times for the club. During his career Danny played for Wasps , Sale Sharks, Melbourne Rebels, Gloucester Rugby and Bath rugby. Danny was one of the most talented and exciting Numbers 10's of his generation.
The adventurer
Damian Browne
Damian is a former professional rugby player turned adventurer and performance coach. Damian was the first person to row from New York City to Galway Ireland completing his in October 2022 trip after 112 days at sea.