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Eamon Colman
Irish painter (born 1957) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Early life
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]
Career
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]
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Personal life
Colman lives in the hills of northeast County Kilkenny.[13][14] His wife, Pauline O'Connell, is also an artist.[15]
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