Melita Denaro Irish, b. 1950

  • Whether Melita Denaro is watching a squally cloud, filled with water, change colour as it joins the sea; or a...
     
     

     

     

    Whether Melita Denaro is watching a squally cloud, filled with water, change colour as it joins the sea; or a sunbeam illuminating a golden cow in a green corner of a meadow, she brings to her paintings a spiritual intensity that one has seen in the translucent Scapa Flow sunsets of Turner or when a kneeling woman is transformed into the Queen of Heaven by a Tiepolo shaft of sunlight. Always we are given a personal, passionate and thrilling vision of the sublime fusion that takes place in every moment when Heaven meets and then transforms the earth.

     

  • Available Work Catalogue 2025

  • Past Exhibitions

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  • Biography
    Melita Denaro

    Solo Exhibitions

    2019 In His Sheltering Presence, John Martin Gallery, London
    2016 Caught in the Moonlight, John Martin Gallery, London
    2014 Whatever One Longs for, Is, John Martin Gallery, London
    2011 The Tenderness of Attention, John Martin Gallery, London
    2008 The Glad Earth, John Martin Gallery, London
    2004 A Field We Knew Together, John Martin Gallery, London
    2003 Melita Denaro at London Art Fair, John Martin Gallery, London
    2003 ‘New Paintings from the Isle of Doagh’, Taylor Galleries, Dublin
    2002 Melita Denaro 2002, John Martin Gallery, London
    2000 Glebe Gallery, Donegal
    1998 Paintings of Donegal Kelly Ross at the Ko Raw Gallery
    1997 Gallery Dublin showing with Jack B. Yeats
    1994 Oliver Swan Gallery London

    1994 The Gorden Gallery Derry

    1992 Oliver Swan Gallery London

    1992 The Gorden Gallery Derry

    1990 The Gorden Gallery Derry

     

    Group Exhbitions

    2023: Sun&Moon Exhibition, Spirit Studios, John Martin Gallery 

    2007: York Contemporary Irish Painting, Lalique New York, John Martin Gallery
    2006: Irish Landscape and Mark Swords, John Martin Gallery
    2006: New Year Exhibition, John Martin Gallery
    2005: Summer Exhibition, John Martin Gallery
    2003: Melita Denaro, London Art Fair, John Martin Gallery
    1999: Painters from Ireland, John Martin of London
    1997: British & Contemporary Painting, Kelly Ross at the Clink Wharf Gallery
    1996-98: Waterman,London
    1996-98: Art,Connaught Brown London
    1996: Whitechapel Open
    1996: Beginnings Offer Waterman London
    1996: Person Show Adam Gallery Bath
    1996: Blue Gallery London
    1996: Soloman Gallery, Dublin
    1995-98: Art Fair, Royal College of Art
    1995-1997: Contemporary Art Society,Royal Festival Hall
    1995-1997: The Discerning Eye,The Mall Galleries
    1992-97: Royal Hiberian Academy, Dublin
    1990-97: Royal Academy Summer Show
    1994-96: Sligo Art Gallery
    1994: a Mark The Mall Galleries
    1993-97: Hunting Observer Art Prize
    1992-94: Guardian Art for Sale

     

    Awards

    1994 The Armitage Prize
    1994 The David Murray Travelling Scholarship
    1995 The Creswick Prize
    1995 The Royal Academy Silver Medal

     

    Education

    1975-78 Central School of Art BA (Hons) Ceramics
    1992-95 Royal Academy Schools Post Graduate Diploma in Painting

     

    Collections

    Irish State Dublin, The Ulster Museum, Guinness Dublin; Guinness London; Allied Irish Bank Dublin; Hambros Bank London; Oprah Winfrey Chicago; `Blur’; Donegal County Council; H.R.H The Prince of Wales.