Solomon Fine Art is delighted to host its first and much anticipated solo exhibition by artist Eamon Colman.
Colman’s life-long passion for walking has taken him to vast and dramatic landscapes throughout the world but The Width of Yourself see’s the artist reign in his focus, creating paintings inspired by walks within a 30 mile radius of his home in rural Kilkenny. Blending the figurative and the abstract, Colman’s patchwork style of colour and pattern captures the shifting weather, sights and stories of the explored terrain.
Born in Dublin in 1957, Eamon Colman studied in the Trinity Art Workshop and the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, beginning a full time professional career in 1979. He was chairperson of The Artists Association of Ireland (1993-1995) and elected President of the European Council of Artists (1995-2000). Having created over forty solo exhibitions presented nationally and internationally including The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery; Temple Bar Gallery; Oriel Q Gallery, Wales; Stern Studio Gallery, Vienna; and The Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, USA, he is considered one of Ireland's most important contemporary painters. In recognition of his major contribution to Irish culture Colman was elected a member of Aosdána in 2007 and to the Toscairi in 2018.
Colman’s work is represented in many major collections including: The Arts Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works - Government Collection, Gordon Lambert Collection – Irish Museum of Modern Art, AIB Bank, Bank of Ireland, K P M G, Smurfit Ireland Grp, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Arthur Anderson, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Tralee Regional Technical College, Fyffes Ireland, Delta Airlines, The Danish Arts Council, De Vere’s private collection and various private collections worldwide.
In 2003 Colman moved from his native Dublin to set up a studio in the rural uplands of north-east Co. Kilkenny where he lives and works.
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Eamon ColmanPainting for Sonja. The river wall is reached, sudden loneliness and then peacemixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic124 x 111 cm
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Eamon ColmanTangling shadows, shaking all roots, deep in solitudemixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic76 x 104 cm
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Eamon ColmanIn the imaginary garden, one can still hear the Angelus bellmixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic76 x 104 cm
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Eamon ColmanCold earth slept below the valley of the Thrush, 2018/19mixed media on Somerset 360gram acid free paper under acrylic76 x 104 cm
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Eamon ColmanHorace there by Homer standsmixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic76 x 104 cm
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Eamon ColmanAltocumulus clouds blow dreaming to altitudemixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic76 x 104 cm
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Eamon ColmanSwimming through the fog, the night stops at the hill of soulsmixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic60 x 56 cm
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Eamon ColmanA leaning into the lightoil and mixed media on Somerset 360gram acid free paper under acrylic60 x 56 cm
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Eamon ColmanAbove the small holding radio signals penetrate the silencemixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic60 x 56 cm
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Eamon ColmanThrough the forest undergrowth the wind hesitated and moved towards daymixed media on Somerset 360 gram acid free paper under acrylic60 x 56 cm
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Eamon ColmanSongs from the mountain sing of two worlds: one hidden the other youngoil and mixed media on Somerset 360gram acid free paper under acrylic60 x 56 cm
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Eamon ColmanMoor Hen call from the smell of the pond, it seems to furrow the smooth surface of silenceoil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm
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Eamon ColmanThe sodden nest of a cold-eyed Thrushoil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm
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Eamon ColmanDay came to sunsets windless calm, where the air was still, heavy and warm between the hedgesoil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm
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Eamon ColmanThe cold north air, like a lens of ice, transforms and clarifies the curlew calloil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm
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Eamon ColmanThe wind shred banner of the Autumn lightoil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm
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Eamon ColmanSoft winged as an evening owl, the night came pink and magentaoil and mixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper, under acrylic37 x 43 cm€ 2,000.00
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Eamon ColmanGolden fields showed wet and clearmixed media on 280gram Yupo Japanese paper under acrylic44 x 53 cm