Cliodhna Prendergast is a food and travel writer and photographer living and working on the west coast of Ireland.

She has the expertise to create both pictures and prose for compelling print media stories.

The Financial Times How To Spend It magazine, The Sunday Times, House & Garden, IMAGE Living & Interiors, and Condé Nast Traveller are just some of the publications where Cliodhna's work has featured.

Cliodhna lives in Connemara with her husband, three children, one dog, a healthy family of houseplants, and an ever-present camera around her neck.

She is a professionally trained and award-winning chef passionate about foraging for wild food and cooking with local and authentic produce. As a child, she was invariably found in the kitchen of her parent's country house hotel in Connemara. She formally studied at Ballymaloe Cookery School and apprenticed in many great Irish kitchens before taking over as head chef in Delphi Lodge in Connemara. She headed up the kitchens here for 11 years and was named best chef in Connaught by Food and Wine Magazine. 

In 2012, Cliodhna hung up her chef's whites to be a full-time Mum to her three children. Her culinary creativity soon found a new home in Breaking Eggs, a series of beautifully filmed programmes designed to encourage parents to cook with their children. From there, she became known for her outstanding images and recipes for her simple, stunning food.

Through her creative work, Cliodhna discovered a natural talent and deep love for photography. She started writing about and photographing food for her local paper, The Connemara Journal, and was soon contributing to national and international journals, magazines, and newspapers. For two and a half years, Cliodhna wrote, styled, and photographed the food column in The Sunday Times. She is a member of the Irish Food Writers' Guild.

Cliodhna's work has been featured in publications including House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller, IMAGE Interiors & Living, The Irish Times and The Gloss Magazine, Garden Heaven, and the Financial Times' How To Spend It magazine.

Cliodhna, together with creative partner Imen McDonnell, co-founded Lens & Larder, a series of food and travel photography retreats. Together they delivered a series of gatherings, workshops, and events held in stunning country houses led by world-renowned masters of food and travel photography and writing.

Cliodhna has collaborated with Gentl & Hyers, Susan Spungen, Mimi and Oddur Thorisson, Ditte Isager, David Prior, Beth Kirby, Diana Henry, Elissa Altman, Marte Marie Forsberg, Bill Phelps, and Renee Kemps. In connecting participants to the surrounding landscape and local artisanal producers, Lens & Larder was named as one of the top workshops in the world by Suitcase Magazine. 

She has channelled her passion for authenticity in food and wild landscape into curating sensational and bespoke culinary experiences for clients including Toast, Hermès, and private clients.

With every publication, people always ask where they could purchase Cliodhna's photography. So she has lovingly curated a selection of her favourite images into a series of limited edition prints for purchase online in her print shop.