Bio
Lenore Collins is an American graphic designer, painter and photographer living in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland for over 20 years. She graduated from RISD in 1985 with a bachelors degree in Graphic Design.
Colour, form and composition and its various relationships are her main focus and she has gone from realism painting to abstract over the last few years.
She has been in many group shows, two RHA Annual Shows, several Dublin Painting and Sketching shows, the ‘Arrival” Biennial Show in the Lexicon of which her painting was one of 50 chosen out of 370 entrants. Lenore received a commission from the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Council to do a painting and 22 art prints of it for the Tidy Towns Awards in 2018. Her paintings hang in many homes in the area and in the US.
She also teaches painting to any level or age to students in her home studio and is available for commissions.
Exhibitions
September, 2014
BLUE HOUSE GALLERY
Main Street, Schull, West Cork, Ireland
Group Show with 5 paintings on show.
December, 2014
PRIVATE SHOW
Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Group Show with 5 paintings on show.
August, 2015
SOLO SHOW
Sandycove, Co Dublin, Ireland
Solo Show with 8 paintings on show.
May, 2016
138th Annual Dublin Painting and Sketching Show
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
1 painting selected and shown, sold.
March, 2017
GROUP SHOW
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
Group show with 2 other women with 7 paintings on show.
May, 2017
139th Annual Dublin Painting and Sketching Show
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
1 painting selected and shown.
September, 2017
GROUP SHOW
Dundrum, Ireland
Group show for Culture Night at the Mill Theatre, showed for 2 months.
December, 2017
‘Arrival’, the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Biennial Open Exhibition
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
Selected as one of 50 pieces from 370 entrees.
May, 2018
GROUP SHOW
Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin, Ireland
7 pieces shown, one sold.
May, 2018
188TH RHA ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Dublin, Ireland
Photograph selected.
September, 2018
Commission from Dun Laoghaire/ Rathdown County Council
Dublin, Ireland
Commisioned 40 x 60cm painting and 22 framed art prints of the painting
for the Tidy Towns Awards
May, 2019
HINTERLAND
Eblana House, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
Group Show with ArtNetDLR
July, 2020
SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION 2020
One painting selected for show in Bray, Co. Wicklow
October, 2020
SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2020
Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Group Show with two pieces shown. Online only
November, 2020
DUBLIN ARTS SOCIETY ARTS EXHIBITION FALL 2020
Dublin, Ireland
Group Show with two pieces shown. Online only
January, 2021
ARTNETDLR TRANSITION SHOW
Online Gallery show. One piece.
March, 2021
SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE ANNUAL MEMBERS EXHIBITION 2021
Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Group Show with two pieces shown. Online only
September, 2021
REMEMBRANCE
Dallas, Texas USA
Group Show about the 20th Anniversary of 9/11.
January, 2022
ARTNETDLR METAMORPHOSIS SHOW
Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, Ireland
Collaborative group show, 3 pieces
February, 2022
SOLO SHOW SIGNAL ARTS CENTRE
Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
Solo show with 53 pieces
April, 2022
ARTNETDLR CONVERGENCE SHOW
Dun Laoghaire, Ireland
Group show with 2 pieces
May, 2022
192nd RHA ANNUAL EXHIBIT
Dublin, Ireland
Triptych photograph