Dermot Meagher studied Art at the Worcester Art Museum, Harvard College, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, Massachusetts, the Fine Arts work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and The Cambridge Center for Adult Education. Among others his teachers have been Paul Bowen, Rob Moore, Larry Collins, Brian Campbell, Ricardo Carlos Martinez, Raphael Noz, Eliot Hubbard and Elizabeth McDermott Meagher.

His first exhibit was in 1999. In 2001, his work was selected for the Provincetown Art Association’s Emerging Artists show. In 2002, he showed at the Wing/Pinske Gallery in New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 2003, he showed at the Battelle/Harding Gallery in Greenfield, Massachusetts and at the Boston Athenaeum. In November and December 2004, his work was shown at the Jamaica Plain Art Market Gallery in Boston.

He is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and has shown there every summer since 2003.

His drawings were described as “haiku-like and serene” by the Boston Globe, although he claims to have no idea where such tranquility comes from. “I draw fast and use whatever is within arm’s reach to make a mark---- pen and ink, pencil, Sumi ink, tar, tea, coffee, charcoal, watercolor, oil pastels and sometime mud with my fingers. I try not to ask too many questions while I’m drawing,” he says.