Maeve Coulter trained as a printmaker in Limerick School of Art and Design and later studied Art Textiles in Crawford College of Art and Design. She now works in both disciplines often combining print with fabric and stitch.

In 2011 she co-founded Blackstack Studio, an artist led, fine art print studio in Kilkenny City. Maeve works from her studio at her home in rural north Co. Kilkenny as well as in Blackstack. She teaches printmaking at Grennan Mill Craft School in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny and is a regular tutor with Open Circle Community Arts Collective.