Eamon Colman
November 21 – December 19, 2008
The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery is pleased to present recent work by Irish artist Eamon Colman.
Eamon Colman’s paintings explore the interdependency of nature and nurture in landscape painting. Using striking luminescent colors, each of which compiles landscapes of organic forms and delicate painterly strokes, Colman speaks in a personalized visual language. Each painting tells of a specific physical journey or exploration of both familiar and exotic landscapes—Africa, Ireland and the United States—yet each painting is ambiguous enough to allow the imagination to wander. As a devoted colorist, he also explores the painting’s “otherness” through defining a sense of place, both personally and historically through a layering of symbolic gestures. His work presents a flattening ‘topography’ of symbols, but also a multi-layered cartography of paint. The work then acts as a way of articulating his personal relationship to his chosen subject.
Biography: His selected solo exhibitions include: River Run Pass Tumble Down, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford, 2008; Vantage, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2007; Breath of the River, Galeri Caernarfon Cyf, Wales, 2006; Between Bog and a Sagging Wall, Vangard Gallery, Cork, 2006; Knot of Souls, South Tipperary Arts Center, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary Salt River, St. David’s University, Lampeter, Wales, 2004; Africa 22 - 35 S, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2004; Walking Vermont, Vermont Studio Centre USA, 2002; Rain on Water, Rubicon Gallery , Dublin, 2000. Selected group exhibitions: Colour Fields, Draiocht, Dublin, 2007; Nicholas Gallery, Belfast, 2007; Art Miami, Hillsboro Fine Art, USA, 2007; Eigse, Carlow, 2005; Boyle Arts Festival, 2005; Kilcock Art Gallery, 2005; Amber Arts Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005; Eigse, Carlow, 2004; RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, 2004. He lives and works in Kilkenny, Ireland.
This exhibition made possible by generous support of the Missouri
Arts Council, the Regional Arts Commission and Culture Ireland.
November 21 – December 19, 2008
The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery is pleased to present recent work by Irish artist Eamon Colman.
Eamon Colman’s paintings explore the interdependency of nature and nurture in landscape painting. Using striking luminescent colors, each of which compiles landscapes of organic forms and delicate painterly strokes, Colman speaks in a personalized visual language. Each painting tells of a specific physical journey or exploration of both familiar and exotic landscapes—Africa, Ireland and the United States—yet each painting is ambiguous enough to allow the imagination to wander. As a devoted colorist, he also explores the painting’s “otherness” through defining a sense of place, both personally and historically through a layering of symbolic gestures. His work presents a flattening ‘topography’ of symbols, but also a multi-layered cartography of paint. The work then acts as a way of articulating his personal relationship to his chosen subject.
Biography: His selected solo exhibitions include: River Run Pass Tumble Down, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford, 2008; Vantage, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2007; Breath of the River, Galeri Caernarfon Cyf, Wales, 2006; Between Bog and a Sagging Wall, Vangard Gallery, Cork, 2006; Knot of Souls, South Tipperary Arts Center, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary Salt River, St. David’s University, Lampeter, Wales, 2004; Africa 22 - 35 S, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2004; Walking Vermont, Vermont Studio Centre USA, 2002; Rain on Water, Rubicon Gallery , Dublin, 2000. Selected group exhibitions: Colour Fields, Draiocht, Dublin, 2007; Nicholas Gallery, Belfast, 2007; Art Miami, Hillsboro Fine Art, USA, 2007; Eigse, Carlow, 2005; Boyle Arts Festival, 2005; Kilcock Art Gallery, 2005; Amber Arts Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2005; Eigse, Carlow, 2004; RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, 2004. He lives and works in Kilkenny, Ireland.
This exhibition made possible by generous support of the Missouri
Arts Council, the Regional Arts Commission and Culture Ireland.
Eamon Colman Catalog
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