About
In 1993 Verner staged his frist solo exhibition in a local hotel and began painting full time. He was awarded a L.E.D.U. Artrepreneur award in 1995 and since then has not looked back. Over the past years Verner’s reputation as a successful artist has grown, he has had a number of sell out exhibitions and has steadily increased in popularity among critics and collectors.He travels on his motobike North and South of Ireland to photograph the landscape for his painting’s, returning to spend many hour’s in his studio working on them in his unique way. A traditional landscape painter with a modern twist, Verner has created a style that can truly be called his own.
Recently I spent an evening in Verner’s studio, the attention to detail within the landscape, which I knew from Verner’s older work, had not disappeared but had been transferred to an interest in the effects of light and colour within the landscape itself.
KEITH WILSON RUA.
BORN 1962
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STUDIED
1975-8 Laurelhill High School.
1978 Lisburn Technical College A Level Art.
1978-1980 Motor Mechanic.
1986- 1993 Signwriter/Illustrator, V.F.SIGNS LTD.
AWARDS
2017 COMMISSIONED BY THE NATIONAL TRUST NORTHERN IRELAND
1997 NORTHERN IRELAND CIVIL SERVICE ART SECTION, 3
PAINTINGS AT STORMONT CASTLE COTTAGES.
1995 LEDU Artrepreneur.
1975 WINNING DESIGN FOR LISBURN ARTS ADVISORY COUNCIL LOGO
2025 Gallery 1608.
2025 The Yard Gallery Hollywood Co.Down.
2024 Gallery 1608.
2024 The Yard Gallery Hollywood.
2024 Gormleys Fine Art Belfast/Dublin.
2023 Gormleys Fine Art Belfast/Dublin.
2022 The Yard Gallery Hollywood Co.Down.
2022 The Eakin Gallery Belfast.
2021 Edenbane Art Kilrea.
2020 Original Irish Art Belfast.
2019 Canvas Gallery Belfast.
2018 The Eakin Gallery Belfast.
2018 Canvas Gallery Belfast.
2017 National Trust Northern Ireland.
2017 Gallery 1608.
2016 Solo Exhibition Gallery 1608.
2014 Gallery 1608.
2014 Gallery 1608.
2012 Black Canvas Gallery Hollywood Co.Down.
2011 The Newcastle Gallery.
2011 The Castle Gallery Lisburn.
2010 Gormleys Fine Art.
2008 RUA Exhibition, Belfast.
2006-8 Solo exhibition, Gormleys Fine Art, Belfast.
2004-8 Group exhibition, Gormleys Fine Art,Belfast.
2004 The Prentice Gallery, Craigavon.
2003 The Castle Gallery, Lisburn.
2003 The Eakin Gallery Belfast.
2000 The Taylor Gallery, Belfast.
1998 The BBC Belfast.
1998 The Portstewart Galleries.
1997 The McGilloway Gallery, Londonderry.
1996 The Elaine Summers Gallery, Hollywood.
1995 Group exhibitions, B.B.C. Belfast.
1993 Solo exhibition, Local Hotel.
1992 The Gillian Gallery.
1991 The Newcastle Gallery.
1991 The Seymour Gallery, Lisburn.
PUBLIC SHOWS
2014 The Paddy Hopkirk Gala, Titanic Centre Belfast.
2011 The Merchant Hotel, Belfast.
2011 Antique and Fine Art. R.D.S. Dublin.
1997 Board Failte, Howth, Co. Dublin.
1996 Board Failte, Maysfield, Belfast.
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS in
America.
Vancouver.
Dublin.
Canada.
South Africa.
France.
D.O.E. Offices, Belfast.
Work is also included in many hotels throughout N. Ireland.
CHARITIES
2014 NSPCC ART AUCTION WITH CARRIE NEELY ART.
2014 The intergrated Education Fund.
2013 The War and Want Auction, Belfast.
2013 The Scoop Charity Auction, Dublin.
2013 Pretty in Pink Charity, Belfast.
2012 NSPCC AUCTION WITH CARRIE NEELY ART.
2012 Cancer focus
2011 War and Want Auction, Ormeau Baths Gallery Belfast.
2010 Tuesday Child, Belfast.
2008 Macmillan Cancer Support.
2002 Children of the fallout Chernobyl.