Artist: Mark Francis (b.1962) Title: Ventral (2003) Signature: signed & dated on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Size: 86½ x 102cm (34 x 40in) Provenance: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Mark Francis was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art (1980-85) before going on to the Chelsea School of Art where he completed his Master of Arts in painting in 1986. Francis has exhibited internationally both individually and in group exhibitions. His work has had a strong association with science. Throughout his career his abstract paintings have continually been informed by the shapes, patterns and visual qualities found by his personal interest in mycology. It is through this abstract language that Francis initiated his platform in the early 1990s to become one of the UK's leading contemporary painters and maintains to be at the forefront of critical evaluation within art. Francis is often characterised by his wet-on-wet painting technique (a technique also used by Gerhard Richter in the 1960s) and his continuous use of grid formations that are present within his paintings. Francis' work is collected by numerous institutions and organisations that include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Tate and is represented by Kerlin Gallery.
Artist: Mark Francis (b.1962) Title: Ventral (2003) Signature: signed & dated on reverse Medium: oil on canvas Size: 86½ x 102cm (34 x 40in) Provenance: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin (label verso); Private Collection More info: Click to read more about this lot Mark Francis was born in Northern Ireland in 1962 and studied painting at St. Martin's School of Art (1980-85) before going on to the Chelsea School of Art where he completed his Master of Arts in painting in 1986. Francis has exhibited internationally both individually and in group exhibitions. His work has had a strong association with science. Throughout his career his abstract paintings have continually been informed by the shapes, patterns and visual qualities found by his personal interest in mycology. It is through this abstract language that Francis initiated his platform in the early 1990s to become one of the UK's leading contemporary painters and maintains to be at the forefront of critical evaluation within art. Francis is often characterised by his wet-on-wet painting technique (a technique also used by Gerhard Richter in the 1960s) and his continuous use of grid formations that are present within his paintings. Francis' work is collected by numerous institutions and organisations that include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Tate and is represented by Kerlin Gallery.
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