Dennis Orme Shaw was born in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, 1944.  He studied at Belfast college of Art from 1962 to1967, receiving a Diploma in Art from there in 1965, a National Diploma in Design in 1966 and an Art Teachers Diploma in 1967. Orme Shaw has been exhibiting since the 1970s and has shown his work all over Ireland and Northern Ireland. He has been awarded several honours including Silver Medals at the RUA Exhibition in 1993 and 1994. His work forms part of the collections of the Bank of Ireland, Ulster Bank, Arts Council Collection, Crawford Municipal Gallery and the Doyle Hotel Group, Dublin. His work also features in private collections in America, Canada, Ireland, UK, Hong Kong and New Zealand.