Dublin born painter Sean Scully studied at St. Martin’s College of Art and later at Croydon College of Art, both in London, before moving to the United States. An internationally renowned artist, Scully’s work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York, National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, Tate Modern, Victoria and Albert Museum, The Irish Museum of Modern Art and Hugh Lane Gallery.
Scully believes strongly that art should have a tr
ansformative function on the viewer. While referring to this spiritual tradition of modern art his work is equally influenced by many of the non art contexts in which colour and pattern assert themselves such as the dyed fabrics of Morocco, the painted hoardings of construction sites in New York and the reflections of strong colour on the walls of Mayan temples in Mexico. Scully's acclaimed use of abstraction blends the metaphysical with the physical, providing, as in this work, a contemporary and highly distinctive version of abstract art.
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