T.P. Flanagan

Terence Patrick Flanagan (1929 - 2011) was a landscape watercolourist from Northern Ireland.

Life

T. P. Flanagan was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He took up painting in his teens and learned the arts of watercolour painting from the local portraitist and landscape artist Kathleen Bridle (1897-1989).[1] He then attended Belfast College of Art(1949-1953).

After graduation he obtained a post at St. Mary's College of Education where he stayed for 28 years becoming Head of the Art Department.[2] He continued to paint and to exhibit his work for over forty years.

Seamus Heaney, for whom he painted various pieces, described Flanagan as being in tune 'with the notion of an earthly paradise and hence the radiance of the painting is entirely this-worldly ... and always there has been that necessary painterly hedonism'.[2] His work is the subject of a biography by S.B. Kennedy.

He died in Belfast in 2011.

Exhibitions and collections

His work has been exhibited widely in one-man and group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad.

His work is represented in numerous private collections as well as the public collections of the Ulster Museum, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.[3]

Awards

Biography

S.B. Kennedy (2013) T.P. Flanagan: Painter of Light and Landscape (Featuring a foreword by Séamus Heaney), Lund Humphries.

References
  1. "Flanagan TP, Landscape artist". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  2. "TP Flanagan Biography". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  3. "T.P. Flanagan - Painter of Light and Landscape". Retrieved 17 November 2019.
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