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The Irish artist Fran McCann, born in Belfast in 1945, lives in Gort (south Galway), deep in the heart of striking and tranquil countryside which he lets weave its spell around him.
An artist with considerable depth, he has exhibited many times not only in Ireland, where his work is on long-term display at the Kenny Gallery in Galway, but also abroad: in Australia, Italy, Turkey and Germany; he has also been awarded many prizes, among which, recently, the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Art Exhibition “Traces of Memory” held in Ferrara in November 2008 and the Michelangelo Buonarroti Award presented to him in Lecce in December 2008 by the Brindisi “Italia in Arte” Cultural
Association.
Although he studied for a short period under such a great master as John Luke, McCann has preferred to follow his own personal path without being restricted by rules dictated by specific studios. Guided by an ardent and inventive sense of creativity and endowed with technical ability and innate talent, over the years he has been able to develop an individual and personal pictorial language through which he expresses his imagination and interprets his emotion; spurred by his inner world but also by the real world
which is present all around and fascinates him, this results in compositions in which the formal elements of colour and music combine with great force and energy.
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