Francis Tansey - Artist Info

About Francis Tansey

  • Biography

    The contemporary Irish abstract painter Francis Tansey was born in Dublin in 1959. He studied at the National College of Art and Design in (1978-1983). Specializing in abstract art, in 1985 he became the first Artist in Residence, at Butler Gallery, County Kilkenny, where his brightly coloured geometric acrylic painting stirred interest.

    Tansey typically uses rollers as well as brushes to apply acrylic co-polymer paints in countless thin layers until the desired colour saturation is achieved, utilizing tape to achieve ultra-crisp edges.

    In their expression of spacial relationships and juxtapositioning of colour, they have several characteristics in common with the Abstract Expressionists Piet Mondrian and Mark Rothko.

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