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Francis Tansey

Francis Tansey (Born 1959) is active/lives in Ireland.  Francis Tansey is known for Abstract, geometrip painting.

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.
Since he began painting full-time, Francis Tansey has shown his works in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and his work is in the collections of the Ulster Museum, the Arts Council of Ireland, Jefferson Smurfit Group, AIB and many other corporate   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2955 characters.]  Artist bio

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Primary Structure in Grey (1992)

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Linear Dialogue , 1997

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Tubular Composition II (1988)

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Rotating Solids in Grey 1992

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Nelson Mandela is Free (1990)

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