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Early Life:

          Basil Blackshaw Basil Blackshaw brought up in Boardmills, County Down, Blackshaw attended Methodist College Belfast and studied at Belfast College of Art (1948-1951). In 1951 Blackshaw was awarded a scholarship by the Committee for the encouragement of Music and the Arts, to study in Paris.

         He was initially acclaimed for his mastery of traditional approaches to painting. He continued to build up as an artist becoming most extremely regarded for his very loose gestural application of paint and a very distinctive and subtle use of colour. His paintings of such sports as horse racing and boxing have made him particularly popular but Blackshaw is also a talented portrait painter.

Personal Details Name Basil-Blackshaw Place of birth Glengormley Date of Birth 1932 Date of Death - Nationality Irish Field Painter,Artist Movement Irish painter Museum - Works The Last Walk,Green Landscape(1980)

   Works Of Basil-Blackshaw