For our fine art class, we were asked to do some contextual research on three different artists; a painter, a sculptor and a printmaker. The painter I decided to do some research on is Sean Scully.

Scully is an Irish painter that was born in Dublin in 1945 and a couple years after he was born, his family moved to London. At the age of 9 in 1954, Catholic church paintings have a strong influence on him and he realises he wants to be an artist. In 1970, Scully is presented with the Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Prize then in 1972-73 he is presented with the Frank Knox Fellowship which allowed him to attend Harvard University, making his first trip to the USA. Later in 1973, after he return from America, Scully held his first solo exhibition in Rowan Gallery in London.

I quite like Scully’s style and the way he paints as its pretty simplistic and I, as someone who isn’t great at a lot of details, can admire and respect that. I want to try and use some essence of that sort of simplicity in my final pieces as I feel like it would add a piece of myself into it.