Sat
May
30
This is the first year that we have taken a stand at the Interior Design and Art Fair in Dublin’s RDS, and the responce we got was very reassuring.
There was a mixed reaction to Gottfried Helnweins work from the war child series both shocking and mesmerising.
We also launched our contemporary gilded frames at the Art fair and there seems to be genuine interest that high quality frames such as these, and previously only available in London, are now available in Ireland. We have posted some samples on the website and welcome your interest.
A big thank you to all who came to speak with us at the fair and I would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our hardworking staff who worked tirelessly to make sure we got all our work done!
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More information available at www.idafair.ie
Fri
Apr
24
Here are some of the events and Artists Exhibitions we have framed for recently. We greatly enjoyed seeing the work up close, so if you missed it, follow the links to find out more. One artist to really look out for is Eugene Conway,fantastic oil work.
March 2009 Final submissions for the RHA Annual exhibition.
March 2009 Charlie Whisker at The Merrion Hotel, Curated by Solomon Fine Art.
Feburary 2009 Ciaran Lennon at the Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin
Janurary 2009 Patrick Scott at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris
2008 Gottfried Helnwein at the Waterford Fringe Festival
Sun
Mar
1
We are delighted to announce that we will have a stand at this years interior design exbo at the R.D.S. May 14th to 17th
We will be showcasing our new ranges of bespoke frames for artists, contemporary photographic frames and a range of full length dress mirrors.
There will also be some very interesting works to purchase, more details nearer the time.
Eamon Colman Irish Artist, Irish Painter
Biography
- 1957 Born in Dublin
- 1993-1995 Chairperson, The Artist Association of Ireland
- 1993-1996 Board Member , Sculptors Society of Ireland
- 1995-2000 President, The European Council of Artists
- 2000-2004 Board Member , The Butler Gallery Kilkenny
Eamon Colman now lives and works in County Kilkenny. He lives with his partner Irish artist
Pauline O’Connell and their son Reuben.
He is one of Ireland’s most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary painters.
Artist Statement
As an artist there have been a range of influences in my work, some occur sequentially and some simultaneously, but many by accident or serendipity. Nature and nurture have fed upon each other to create a form of expression which is a personal visual language.
Through the exploration of psyche I begin to understand the need to explore landscape and walking has become an important part of this exploration. Following this journey comes the exploration of space on a canvas. I believe that I am in the tradition of artists such as Ivon Hitchens, Auerbach and Hodgkins. Unlike Hitchens who creates work that is non symbolic my works are both allusive and symbolic but I take from him the interest in spatial sequencing.
When I think about form and space on a canvas it moves away from representation to abstraction. For me the thing which is the essence of abstraction is the ghost of representation. The boat shape in a Heron painting for example, its placement within the canvas abstracts it. To throw away the topographical mark making, go beyond it and then with one mark bring it back creates a visual language which hovers between reality and the imagination. Space is the stage on which you say something, it is created by the placement of a form. The contrast between line and colour is what creates this tension.
It is through the act of walking and travelling that holds the key to all my work. Through the exploration of a given landscape I discover a story to tell. At the source of my work is the story.
Over the past number of years my work practice has taken me to various countries and places. Whether this be Skagen on the Danish coast or to India my search for a way of taking the local history and making a visual response has always been the same.
Through an investigation of place names the discovery of a continuous oral tradition has found its way into our contemporary lives, of note are the stories of the Druid tradition.
I find the mood of a landscape through its people, I interpret this through its colour which sometimes can be incidental as with the Irish landscape. A small flower, a piece of driftwood can determine the colour of the whole painting.
The overriding element of a painting for me is colour. Strong colour with slight pigment changes are used to create the mood of a place. The colour is also a way of looking of that magic realism element in a painting, its otherness.
I am open to things happening on a canvas even though I use many notebooks as reference, while making a painting the things that happen with paint are celebrated.
