Terence P. Flanagan PRUA RHA (1929-2011)Back Avenue, Lissadell Mixed media on paper, 54 x 75cm (21¼ x 29½'')SignedProvenance: With David Hendriks Gallery.Exhibited: T.P. Flanagan: A Haunter of Demense and Ditch Back, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge, 2010.Flanagan’s paintings of Lissadell exemplify his overlaying of visual images with a strongly literary imagination. It appears to have been a strong influence on Flanagan as a writer, both as a young man and later in life, when Seamus Heaney urged him to write down his memories of the time he spent there in his youth. Flanagan’s words eventually metamorphosed into drawings and paintings, and the viewer can sense in Back Avenue, Lissadell the powerful moods remembered from childhood, the strong but elusive visual memories and the dreamlike quality that Flanagan evokes in the path turning out of view and the woodland that is inviting yet impenetrable.Dickon Hall, February 2020