Harry Mcmahon

Emeritus Professor Harry McMahon: born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1937, educated there to first degree level (Honours in Physics at Queens), then school teaching for several years, followed by a Masters in Education at Leicester and then on to teacher education at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, until retirement in 2001. Started painting as an amateur in 1979, became Flowerfield Art Centre tutor in watercolours the following year, exhibited successfully in several one man and group shows in Ireland and France. And then, following retirement from a Chair in Education, took a First Class Honours degree in Fine and Applied Art at the University of Ulster in 2006. Now painting in two contrasting styles, one influenced by man's attempts, through science and mathematics, to make meaning by imposing order on chaos, the other by the now more than a century old tradition of Irish landscape painting.

Date of Birth: 26th May, 1937

1959 B.Sc. in Physics, Queens University, Belfast.

1959 to 1967 Teaching physics and general science in Belfast schools

1968 M.Ed, University of Leicester

1968 to 2001 Teacher educator at University of Ulster: 80+ publications; visiting professor at University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, Miami-Dade Community College and Vanderbilt University, Nashville

2001 Retired as Professor and Head of School of Education, University of Ulster

2002 University of Ulster Diploma in Fine and Applied Art, with Commendation

2004 University of Ulster Associate Bachelors Degree in Fine and Applied Art with Commendation. Wright Perpetual Award for Achievement in Fine and Applied Arts

2005-06 Garfield-Weston Scholar in Fine and Applied Art, University of Ulster at Belfast

2006 University of Ulster BA in Fine and Applied Art with First Class Honours