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Brian Ballard

Brian Ballard (Born 1943) is active/lives in Ireland.  Brian Ballard is known for Pop art painting, graphic design.

Brian Ballard RUA (b.1943)

The Irish colourist, genre painter and landscape artist Brian Ballard was born in Belfast in 1943, where he studied drawing and painting at the College of Art (1961-1964), and afterwards at the Liverpool College of Art (1964-1965).  In 1968, he took up a post with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. In 1970, he won the Carroll Prize in the Irish Exhibition of Living Art.
Ballard's paintings are noted for their rich colours and bold brushstrokes, while sometimes he repaints the same scene several times to portray its differing moods.

A virtuoso master of light and shadow, Ballard has developed a palette with the highly evocative pigments midnight blue and aqua marine, laying down thick strokes of paint that bring great depth and expression to his canvases.

His artworks have appeared in many solo and group exhibitions at art galleries throughout Ireland and the UK, such as Gormleys Fine Art.

His solo shows include: Queen's   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2241 characters.]  Artist bio

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