Derval Freeman graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 1996 with a diploma in fine art painting. She has exhibited in several solo and group shows throughout her career and her work is in many private collections. Some of the highlights of Derval’s career was taking up an artist residency in Cill Rialaig Co. Kerry in 2007 and also was an invited artist by the Hamilton Gallery Sligo to participate in two of their invited artist’s group exhibitions. ‘Eva Gore Booth’ and ‘Among School Children’.
Originally from Co. Clare, Derval has been living and painting full time in Co. Wicklow for the past number of years. She goes out walking regularly and love’s to be surrounded by nature and the open landscape. Her painting style leans towards abstract expressionism and there is an element of the figurative in the work too.
Her inspirations come from her life experiences past and present and from nature and the wonder of the universe. Her painting process always start’s with the drawing. She mixes loose pencil and charcoal under drawings with layers in oils and cold wax. She is interested in how the loose under drawings dictate the paint. She has also an in interest in colour, how one works off the other and how monotones of lights and darks influence colour.
Exhibitions
Current & Upcoming
December 2020, Group show at Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo (Details to follow)
October 2020, SAS Annual 2020 – Group show at the Signal Arts Center, Bray, Wicklow
Imagine Together: Artists Unlocked – Group Show at Hambly & Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen
Among School Children – Invited Artists, Hamilton Gallery, 4 Castle Street, Sligo
Solo Shows
Solace II- Entering the Dream– Ranalagh Arts Centre, Dublin, 2018
Solace I – Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, 2017
Mixed Series 2007/2009 – Frame Gallery, Limerick, 2009
Urban Trail – Frame Gallery, Upper Denmark St. Limerick, 2007
Plane Series – Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin 1998
Group Shows
Eva Gore Booth – Hamilton Gallery Sligo, externally exhibited at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MoLI), UCD, Dublin, 2020
Incognito – Sol Gallery, Dublin, 2020
Incognito – Lavit gallery, Cork. 2020
Ranelagh Arts Members Exhibition – The Gallery, Frame Experts, Dublin, 2019
Incognito, Solomon Fine Art Gallery, Dublin, 2019
Wicklow Artists: A Gathering – In aid of Wicklow Children of Yemen, Pop-up Gallery La Touche Place, Wicklow, 2019
Wicklow Artists: A Gathering – In aid of Wicklow dementia, Pop-up Gallery La Touche Place, Wicklow, 2018
16th Annual SAS Members Exhibition – Signal Arts Centre, Wicklow, 2015
Signal Open – Signal Arts Centre, Wicklow, 2015
Christmas Show – Gallery 75, Limerick 2008
Celebrating Motherhood – Gallery 75, Limerick – 2007
Christmas Show – Gallery 75, Limerick, 2007
Eclectic – Tipperary Institute, Tipperary, 2007
The Millar Gallery (Formerly), Sixmilebridge, 2007
Light Captured – Gallery 75, Limerick, 1997
Public Space 1 – Ulster Bank, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 1997
Public Space 2 – Bank of Ireland, O’Connell Avenue, Limerick, 1997
