IAN HUMPHREYS (born 1956)
“Between Cape & Calfs 2006”
Oil Painting. 5” x 12”.
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Toward Western Rock 2006”
Oil Painting. 5” x 12”.
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Ian Humphreys was born in Hertfordshire in 1956 and studied at
the Berkshire College of Art and Design, where he gained a BA (Hons), and at
Exeter College of Fine Art. He now lives
and works on Heir Island, West Cork, Ireland. Ian has exhibited widely
in New York, Ireland and the U.K. and his work has been
acquired by a number of public and corporate collections, including British
Rail Board, Burmah Castrol, Coopers & Lybrand, Cork University Hospital, Glaxo Smithkline, James
Capel, JP Morgan, Lawfords, Reading Museum & Art Gallery, Tate & Lyle
Sweeteners, University College Cork and Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Solo exhibitions include Lynn Strover
Gallery, Cambridge; Dublin Art Fair; Cunnamore Galleries, Skibbereen; West Cork
Arts Centre; Drac Gallery, Alicante; Eton Art Gallery; Chelsea Art Fair; Long
& Ryle, London; Beaux Arts, Bath; t’Heertje Gallery, Amsterdam; John
Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford; Reading Museum and Art Gallery and Exe Gallery,
Exeter. Group exhibitions include Albany
Gallery, Cardiff; Artisgra, New York; Beaux Arts, Bath; Bess Cutler Gallery,
New York; Contemporary Art Society, London; Crawford Art Gallery, Cork; Eton
Art Gallery; Exe Gallery, Exeter;
Galeria Picasso, Alicante; Glyndebourne Opera House; Houldsworth Fine
Art, London; Hunt Museum, Limerick; Hunting Art Prize; James Baird Gallery, St.
James, Canada; John Martin, London; John Radcliffe, Oxford; Keizers Gallery,
Amsterdam; Long & Ryle, London; Mertz Gallery, London; Munson, Proctor,
Williams, New York; National Software Centre, Cork; Penwith Gallery, St. Ives;
Raw Gallery, New York; Reading Museum & Art Gallery; Redfern Gallery,
London; Ridley Art Society, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Scolp 2000,
Kerry; Singer Friedlander; Solomon Gallery, London; Southampton Museum; Spacex
Gallery, Exeter; Stockholm International Art Fair; The London Group, Barbican,
London; Tramyard Gallery, Dublin; Waring Gallery, Belfast; West Cork Art
Centre, Skibbereen. Ian Humphreys work
has also been exhibited at art fairs in London, Bath, Dublin, Stockholm, Boston and Budapest. He has been selected for the prestigious
Hunting Art Prize on four occasions, winning second prize in 1998. His work has also been selected regularly for
the annual Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in London and for the Singer
Friedlander Watercolour Competition.
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