Frances Tansey was born in Dublin in 1959. He Studied at The National College of Art and Design (1978 - 1983), specialising in abstract art. In 1985 he became the first artist in residence at the Butler Gallery in Co. Kilkenny, where his brightly coloured geometric acrylic paintings caused great interest. Since he began painting full time, he has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Ulster Museum , the Arts Council of Ireland, Jefferson Smurfit group, AIB and many other corporate and private collections Tansey's paintings have immense visual power. He typically uses rollers as well as brushes to apply acrylic co-polymer paints in countless thin layers until the desired colour saturation is achieved, utilising tape to achieve ultra crisp edges. In the expression of special relationships and juxtapositioning of colour, it is said they have several characteristics in common with the abstact expressionists Mondrian and Rothko.