IAN HUMPHREYS (born 1956)
“Between
Oil Painting. 5” x 12”.
Signed IMAGE
Toward Western Rock 2006”
Oil Painting. 5” x 12”.
Signed IMAGE
“Without Walls”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 81.5 x 112cm. Signed IMAGE
“Elegy”
Oil Painting on Canvas. 96.5
x 86.5cm. Signed IMAGE
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.
