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Carmel Benson b.1950

Carmel Benson was born in Wexford. In 1972 she graduated from University College Dublin with a B.A. and H. Dip. Ed. In 1982 she graduated from Dún Laoghaire College of Art and Design, majoring in painting and printmaking. She joined the Graphic Studio Dublin where she later became a director. She was a lecturer in print at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology from 1985 - 1999 when she resigned and moved to Co. Wicklow where she now lives and works as a full time artist.

Combining figurative and abstract elements, her work is drawn from themes of childhood and nature. Through a strong use of colour, light and the simplification of perspective, it seeks to explore the integration or isolation
of the individual in space/time. Aspects of garden, field and hillside are portrayed as spaces of enclosure or expansion from the absorbed
stance, often evocative of childhood wonder and immersion. Elements from the established
domain of Art are sometimes integrated with the personal, bringing an aspect of the collective
to this individual vision.

Her work is included in many public and private collections including: the Irish Contemporary
Art Society, Bank of Ireland, AIB and the Arts Councils of Ireland.

Past Graphic Studio Dublin Exhibitions:
» 2008 Revelation, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
» 2005 Gardens of Earthly Delight, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
» 2002 Holy Show, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland

Past Graphic Studio Gallery Exhibitions:
» 2008 Childscapes
» 2007 Off The Wall
» 2007 Dublin Port Print
» 2004 The Cracked Looking Glass
» 1999 New Prints

Recent Solo Exhibitions:
» 2003 New Paintings, Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
» 1999 New Paintings, Hallward Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
» 1997 Watchouse Gallery, Enniscorthy, Ireland

Recent Group Exhibitions:
» 2004 Invited Irish artists for Amnesty International, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
» 2001 Estampe, Galerie Michele Broutta, Paris
» 2001 Blackpool, Glasgow Print Gallery, Scotland
» 1998, 2003 London Original Print Fair The Royal Academy, London, England

Click on the thumbnails to view in full, Dimensions refer to paper-size h x w [image size h x w].

All prices are for unframed work including 13.5% VAT available for sale in Graphic Studio Gallery.

Way Out, drypoint & carborundum, 102 cm x 79 cm, Edition of 30, €750	Child field, Edition of 48, €600	Family Romance, Edition of 50, €600	Welcome, 63 cm x 69 cm, Edition of 50, €650
Spirit bird, 63 cm x 69 cm, Edition of 50, €650	Lake Field, 57 cm x 63 cm, Edition of 50, €650	Winter Field, 28 cm x 30 cm, Edition of 50, €380	Solitary, 61 cm x 69 cm, Edition of 50, €650
Dogs in a Garden, drypoint and carborundum, 28.5 cm x 30.5 cm, Edition of 40, €325	Birth, drypoint and carborundum, 21 cm x 21cm, Edition of 40, €480	Birches etching Edition of 50 €210	Enclosure carborundum & drypoint Edition of 50 €250
Field I carborundum & drypoint €190	Field II carborundum & drypoint €190	Field III carborundum & drypoint €190	Field IV carborundum & drypoint €190
Hill Field carborundum €210	Lake Fields carborundum Edition of 50 €220	Three Bushes carborundum Edition of 50 €210