Eamon Colman was born in Dublin in 1957. He studied at Trinity College and the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
He has been a full time painter for over thirty years and has held over thirty solo exhibitions in Ireland and Internationally. Most notably he was invited to exhibit at the Stern Studio Gallery in Vienna 2011, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght in 2010, the Cecille R. Hunt Gallery in St. Louis, USA in 2008, the Oriel Queens Hall Gallery, Wales 2010 & 2006, Galleri Caernarfon Cyf, Wales 2007. At home he has exhibited regularly at his representative gallery Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin. A major mid-term exhibition of his work was held at the RHA Dublin in 1996 accompanied by a Monograph no.1 by Brian McAvera, Dreams From The Lions Head. A 20 year retrospective of his work is featured in a Gandon Edition publication by John O Regan (ed.), Profile 25 – Eamon Colman (Gandon Editions, Kinsale) ISBN 0948037 350.
He came to prominence in the early 1980s with his distinctive use and detailed layering of colour and shapes which evoke landscape. He is a walker who adopts an anthropological and ethnographic approach to his work exploring landscape and places of pilgrimage. His intention is to give voice to an encounter, portraying subjects such as snoring owls, trees, rivers, snow, rain, memory and time and to that which bares the trace of human significance, as an imprint of a culture through the use of paint and colour. The experiential feeds his paintings as an elaboration of nature itself as felt through his imagination.
