About Derval Freeman
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2009 - 2011
Limerick School Of Further Education
2008 - 2009
Limerick University
1993 - 1996
Limerick School of Art and Design
1992 - 1993
Limerick School Of Further Education
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Event: Signal Open
Dates: 4 Aug 2015 - 16 Aug 2015
When Joshua Reynolds established the Royal Academy (RA) in the 18th century, one of his goals was the establishment of an annual exhibition which would be “open” to all artists for submission. The first such exhibition took place in 1769 to great acclaim and has been run annually ever since.
In Ireland the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) did likewise and over the years others have developed such as E.V.A., Claremorris, Oireachtas, Living Art, Iontas etc. These exhibitions provide an opportunity for artists to come together as a community to show and sell their work and provide the public with an eclectic insight into what’s happening in the arts both locally and nationally.
It has long been our intention to establish such an exhibition in Signal and that it would become and annual event in artist’s calendars, “Signal Open”. The 38 works on show are the pieces which were scored highest by the selection panel and are representative of the general body of submissions.
Biography
Derval 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. She is a lover of nature and paints full time in her studio based in Co. Wicklow where she is surrounded by the wonderful landscape of the Wicklow Mountains. She is a member of Visual Artists Ireland (VAI), Ranelagh Arts, Ranelagh, Dublin. Wicklow Artist A Gathering, Greystones, Wicklow and Signal Arts Society (SAS), Bray, Wicklow.
Derval's art leans towards abstract expressionism. She paints using oils and cold wax, incorporating marks in pencil charcoal and oil stick, leaving a variety of textural surfaces and colourful transparencies which are revealed in places.
She is interested in how line, colour, shape and mark making direct the work in its own way and how it brings a sort of 'order to the chaos' of the under drawings and painting strokes. She draws inspiration form nature and the cycle of life in every living thing and being.
