Terence P. Flanagan RHA RUA

Terence P. Flanagan was born in Enniskillen in 1929. He attended night classes at Enniskillen Technical College, first leaning watercolour painting from Kathleen Bridle, with another of her students being William Scott. Flanagan attended Belfast College of Art from 1949 to 1953, where he would teach until his retirement in 1984. He was president of the Royal Ulster Academy between 1977 to 1983, along with being a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy. As a celebrated landscape painter, Flanagan’s subjects are typically scenes from Fermanagh and Donegal.

In 1968, Flanagan's work travelled to John Hewitt's Herbert Art Gallery for a joint show exhibited with Colin Middleton. He also showed work at the Tom Caldwell Gallery, David Hendricks Gallery, and both Art Councils of Ireland.

Described by Seamus Heaney, ‘as an artist, [Flanagan] has gone his own way, explored the Irish landscape and enhanced Irish landscape painting through the discovery and elaboration of an individual style, one that we now take so much for granted that we tend to forget that it had to be invented.’