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T.P. Flanagan
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'''T.P. (Terence Patrick) Flanagan''' (1929 - 2011) was a landscape watercolourist from [[Northern Ireland]].
==Life==
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).<ref></ref> He then attended [[Ulster University|Belfast College of Art]](1949-1953).
After graduation he obtained a post at [[St Mary's University College, Belfast|St. Mary's College of Education]] where he stayed for 28 years becoming Head of the Art Department.<ref></ref> 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'.<ref></ref> 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.
* 1961 - solo show was held at [[CEMA|Arts Council of Northern Ireland]]in Belfast
* Hendriks Gallery, Dublin
* Caldwell Gallery, Belfast during the 1970s and 1980s.
* A major retrospective of his work from 1945 to 1995 was held at the [[Ulster Museum]]
* [[Hugh Lane Gallery|City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin]]
* 1995 - [[Museum of Gothenburg]] Sweden
His work is represented in numerous private collections as well as the public collections of the [[Ulster Museum]], [[Arts Council of Northern Ireland]], [[Hugh Lane Gallery|City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin]] and the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]].<ref></ref>
==Awards==
* 1964 - Elected member of the [[Royal Ulster Academy]]
* 1976 - recipient of the RUA Gold Medal in 1976
* 1978 to 1982 - President of the RUA
* 1983 - elected a member of the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]]
==Biography==
S.B. Kennedy (2013) ''T.P. Flanagan: Painter of Light and Landscape'' (Featuring a foreword by Séamus Heaney), Lund Humphries.
==References==
[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Painters from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:20th-century Irish painters]]
[[Category:Irish male painters]]
[[Category:People from County Fermanagh]]
[[Category:People from Enniskillen]]
==Life==
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).<ref></ref> He then attended [[Ulster University|Belfast College of Art]](1949-1953).
After graduation he obtained a post at [[St Mary's University College, Belfast|St. Mary's College of Education]] where he stayed for 28 years becoming Head of the Art Department.<ref></ref> 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'.<ref></ref> 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.
* 1961 - solo show was held at [[CEMA|Arts Council of Northern Ireland]]in Belfast
* Hendriks Gallery, Dublin
* Caldwell Gallery, Belfast during the 1970s and 1980s.
* A major retrospective of his work from 1945 to 1995 was held at the [[Ulster Museum]]
* [[Hugh Lane Gallery|City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin]]
* 1995 - [[Museum of Gothenburg]] Sweden
His work is represented in numerous private collections as well as the public collections of the [[Ulster Museum]], [[Arts Council of Northern Ireland]], [[Hugh Lane Gallery|City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin]] and the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]].<ref></ref>
==Awards==
* 1964 - Elected member of the [[Royal Ulster Academy]]
* 1976 - recipient of the RUA Gold Medal in 1976
* 1978 to 1982 - President of the RUA
* 1983 - elected a member of the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]]
==Biography==
S.B. Kennedy (2013) ''T.P. Flanagan: Painter of Light and Landscape'' (Featuring a foreword by Séamus Heaney), Lund Humphries.
==References==
[[Category:1929 births]]
[[Category:2011 deaths]]
[[Category:Painters from Northern Ireland]]
[[Category:20th-century Irish painters]]
[[Category:Irish male painters]]
[[Category:People from County Fermanagh]]
[[Category:People from Enniskillen]]
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