Captures the Beauty and Wonder of Nature
Eamon Colman was born in Dublin in 1957 and he now lives and works in Kilkenny. He is one of Ireland’s most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary painters. Through the use of bright, bold colours and abstractions of trees or other vegetation, Colman’s paintings capture the beauty and wonder of nature.
View “Soul Tree” within the collection
Soul Tree by Eamon Colman
View “Out of Dark” within the collection
Out of Dark by Eamon Colman
As Brian McAvera states in his essay for the Catalogue accompanying Colman’s “Africa” exhibition at the ——- Gallery: “ a whole panoply of signs amd symbols emerge from the often succulent colour. Interior and exterior space, the cusp of a breast shape, the erections of a phallic shape, dark underpinnings of shadowy black, a rinse of magenta, a world which nature in the shape of tree or rock, vegetation or the depths of blue-eyed water, all seem to exist in some slippage between the real world and the imagined world.”
Colman’s work is found in important private and public collections including Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Smurfit Collection, Arts Council of Ireland, Contemporary Irish Art Society, Citibank, Fyffes, Delta Airlines, Danish Arts Council, KPMG, American Express, Royal Victoria Hospital, Irish Life, Deutsche Bank, Norwich Union, Vermont Studio Centre and many others.
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Chairperson, The Artist Association of Ireland,1993-1995
Board Member , Sculptors Society of Ireland, 1993-1996
President, The European Council of Artists,1995-2000
Board Member , The Butler Gallery Kilkenny, 2000-2004
Elected Member of Aosdana,2007
Selected Exhibitions
Panorama, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, Northern Ireland, 2013
Eamon Colman, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, USA, 2012
There is no season for margins, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2012
Eamon Colman: New Paintings, Thomas K Lang Gallery, Webster University, Vienna, Austria, 2011
Before the dark gets stronger than the light, Rua Red, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland, 2010
Eamon Colman, Oriel Q, Queens Hall Gallery, Narberth, Wales, 2010
Inishlacken, Joan Lukas Rothenberg Gallery, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse, New York, USA, 2009
Eamon Colman, Cecille R Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St Louis, USA, 2008
Vantage, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2008
Salt River, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2006
Africa, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2004
Walking Vermont, Vermont Studio Centre, USA, 2002
Rain on Water, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 2000
Frederickshaven, Denmark, 1999
Palais des Congres, Lorient, France, 1998
Post Cards Home, RHA Gallery, Dublin, 1997
Digging for Pearls, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, 1995
The Home of the Snake King, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 1994
Islands, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 1992
Dreams from the Lion’s Head, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, 1990
Grafton Gallery, Dublin, 1984
Tulfarris Gallery, Wicklow, 1982
Contact Information
Website: http://www.eamoncolman.com/default.asp
Represented by:
Hillsboro Fine Art
49 Parnell Square West
Dublin 1
Ireland
Telephone: +353.1.8788242
www.hillsborofineart.com