Eamon Colman | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67) |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | National College of Art and Design |
Known for | oil painting |
Style | Landscape painting |
Spouse | Pauline O'Connell |
Parent | Seámus Ó Colmáin (father) |
Elected | Aosdána (2007) |
Website |
eamoncolman |
Eamon Colman RHA (born 1957) is an Irish painter. [1] [2] He is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. [3] [4]
Colman was born in Dublin in 1957. [5] His father, Seámus Ó Colmáin, was an artist. Eamon Colman attended a Christian Brothers school; then Dalton School, a Jewish school in Rathmines; and then a Protestant school. He worked as a labourer and studied landscape gardening. [6]
Colman studied at Trinity Arts Workshop and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin), beginning his professional career in 1979. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1997 and was elected to Aosdána in 2007. [7] He was a member of the Toscaireacht, Aosdána's ten-member ruling committee, in 2020 and 2021. [8]
His paintings often depict the mountains of County Kilkenny and the nearby rivers, the Suir and Barrow. [9] [10] [11] [12] According to critic Aidan Dunne, Colman "built his reputation and following as a painter of works that combine an evident delight in the lively play of colour and form with allusions to mythic or magical narratives. There was, in a great deal of his work, usually an interplay between the landscape per se and the inner, imaginative landscape." [6]
Colman lives in the hills of northeast County Kilkenny. [13] [14] His wife, Pauline O'Connell, is also an artist. [15]
Eamon Colman | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67) |
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | National College of Art and Design |
Known for | oil painting |
Style | Landscape painting |
Spouse | Pauline O'Connell |
Parent | Seámus Ó Colmáin (father) |
Elected | Aosdána (2007) |
Website |
eamoncolman |
Eamon Colman RHA (born 1957) is an Irish painter. [1] [2] He is a member of Aosdána, an elite Irish association of artists. [3] [4]
Colman was born in Dublin in 1957. [5] His father, Seámus Ó Colmáin, was an artist. Eamon Colman attended a Christian Brothers school; then Dalton School, a Jewish school in Rathmines; and then a Protestant school. He worked as a labourer and studied landscape gardening. [6]
Colman studied at Trinity Arts Workshop and the National College of Art and Design (NCAD, Dublin), beginning his professional career in 1979. He had a major retrospective exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1997 and was elected to Aosdána in 2007. [7] He was a member of the Toscaireacht, Aosdána's ten-member ruling committee, in 2020 and 2021. [8]
His paintings often depict the mountains of County Kilkenny and the nearby rivers, the Suir and Barrow. [9] [10] [11] [12] According to critic Aidan Dunne, Colman "built his reputation and following as a painter of works that combine an evident delight in the lively play of colour and form with allusions to mythic or magical narratives. There was, in a great deal of his work, usually an interplay between the landscape per se and the inner, imaginative landscape." [6]
Colman lives in the hills of northeast County Kilkenny. [13] [14] His wife, Pauline O'Connell, is also an artist. [15]