Terence P. Flanagan, R.H.A., R.U.A. b.1929

Belfast, Ulster Museum, T.P.Flanagan, Retrospective Exhibition, 17 November 1995 - 25 February 1996, with tour to Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane and Fermanagh County Museum, Enniskillen, no.91, illustrated in the catalogue.

Executed in 1989, the artist explained that, 'the genesis of Wicklow Landscape from the Train was at once complicated and gratuitous.  In the autumn of 1989 I was travelling by train with my wife Sheelagh to a wedding in Rosslare when I glimpsed from the carriage window what I realised could be a very inspiring landscape of beautiful trees, a rushing river and romantic little cliffs gilt with morning sunlight. For many years previous to that day I had become increasingly fond of eighteenth-century Irish landscape painting, finding serenity and peace in the work of men like George Barret or Thomas Roberts. The momentary encounter with this landscape convinced me I must paint a picture that would be as much as anything else a gesture of respect to these markers. I used a direct technique of washes of diluted oil over a tinted ground, and soft-haired brushes to celebrate my admiration for their achievement, while at the same time holding the picture within the terms of my own less academic style' (T.P.Flanagan, quoted, op.cit., p.77).