Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCrory

Mark Francis

Ireland {Republic}

Mark Francis in one of the UKs most respected artists. Francis has long tested colour’s mutability by stressing the viscosity of oil paint through a variety of strategies. Francis’s newest paintings, three of which will be presented at MAF demonstrate this new, more open regime. The range of colours has expanded radically and the processes that previously coerced the paints behaviour in a more systemic manner have given way to greater risk and possibility. Still a student of science, these new paintings, in their dramatic weaving of substance and tone, feel even more felt, if that were even possible. Francis’s empiric testing and experience have given way to intuition and ‘sixth sense’ - and these paintings deliver a profoundly sensuous experience of Chromatism.