David Crone, RHA, RUA
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David Crone, RHA, RUA
"Interior Landscape"
Oil on canvas, 54" x 54"
"Interior Landscape"
Oil on canvas, 54" x 54"
David Crone is one of Ireland’s leading contemporary painters. Born in Belfast in 1937, he studied sculpture at the Belfast College of Art in the 1950's before turning to painting in the 1960’s. One of his best known sculptures is Horse & Rider in the collection of Queen’s University, Belfast. Throughout a long and successful career as a painter, he has exhibited extensively in Ireland, England, France and the United States. His work is now represented in most of the major public art collections in Ireland, including those of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Ulster Museum, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council of Ireland. He was elected as a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 2005 and in 2016 a major retrospective exhibition of his work was held by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the F.E. McWilliam Gallery in Banbridge. His paintings, with their expressive energy and abstracted forms capture the movement and vitality of urban settings, often inspired by his day to day life in Belfast, where he lectured at the Belfast College of Art. On moving from Belfast to a more rural setting in the 1990’s the focus of his paintings shifted to the landscape and the immediate environs of his substantial garden. Art critic, Aidan Dunne, writing on David Crone in the Irish Times in 2019 remarked that “He is generally and rightly regarded as one of the finest Irish painters of his time.”