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One of Ireland's most distinguished artists, TP Flanagan tomorrow receives an honorary Doctorate from the University of Ulster. Fermanagh-born Flanagan is to receive his degree at the Ormeau Baths Gallery, where an exhibition of his selected works, called Correspondences, is running until July 17.

Terry Flanagan was born in Fermanagh 80 years ago. A teacher and a lecturer before becoming a full time artist, he has shown his work in exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and the US. He is widely regarded as one of the most gifted Irish artists of the 20th century, working particularly in landscapes, but also creating a body of work which attempts to come to terms with Northern Ireland's troubled past. He has also collaborated with figures such as Seamus Heaney and Ann Sexton.

Today Marie-Louise Muir visited him at his Belfast home and asked him first about the paintings in the gallery.