Renate deBrún was born in Bavaria, but left Germany in 1977 for Ireland, then the US, Mexico, Spain and England, before returning to live in Dublin in 1989. More recently she has been spending part of the year in France. As an artist she is self - taught, taking up painting professionally in the early 1990s. In recent years she has concentrated on printmaking, using drypoint and monoprint techniques. She also works in acrylics. Renate has exhibited regularly in Ireland, with solo shows in the Droichead Arts Centre, Guinness Hop Store, An Dámhlann Gallery in Spiddal, Galway, and the Dublin Writers Museum. She has also participated in many group shows such as the Oireachtas, and RHA. Her work is included in corporate and private collections here and abroad. Renate is a qualified linguist (MA in English/Romance Studies 1986) and also works as a landscape gardener and garden designer/consultant.

Solo Exhibitions

United Arts Club, Dublin
Dublin Writers Museum, Dublin
The Kenny Gallery, Galway
Stables Gallery, Ayesha Castle, Killiney, Co. Dublin
Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co. Louth

Selected Group Exhibitions

RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
Orieachtas, Dublin
Monaghan Open Exhibition, County Museum, Monaghan
County Museum, Dundalk, Co. Louth
Guinness Gallery, Foxrock, Co. Dublin
"A Fine Line", Irish Life Centre, Dublin (also as organiser and curator)
Bridge Gallery, Dublin
The Kenny Gallery, Galway
Bar Council of Ireland
Dublin Arts Club