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Felim Egan

Felim Egan (1952 - 2020) was active/lived in Ireland.  Felim Egan is known for Contemporary abstract and non-objective painting.

Felim Egan (b.1952)

The contemporary abstract painter Felim Egan was born in Strabane, County Tyrone in 1952.  He studied painting and drawing in Belfast and Portsmouth before attending the Slade School of Fine Art* in London, after which he began exhibiting in the late 1970s.  He also studied for 12 months at the British School at Rome in 1980 before returning to Dublin.  One of Ireland's most respected exponents of abstract art, his paintings are carefully built up in layers of thin colour with stone powder ground into the acrylic.  His visual vocabulary includes the use of hieroglyphic-type motifs over monochromatic* areas of colour, evoking long horizons, big skies and empty sands.

Felim Egan represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1980 and the Sao Paulo Biennale* in 1985, and has enjoyed more than 55 solo shows throughout Europe and the USA since 1979. Major exhibitions of his artworks were held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and th   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2604 characters.]  Artist bio

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