Versatile artist and teacher, born in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, who studied at St Martin’s School of Art, 1957–61. His teaching included East Ham College of Art, Norwich School of Art, Brighton College of Art, and Pratt Institute, New York, America. Farrell soon won a series of awards, including an Abbey Travelling Scholarship to Italy, 1964; Laureat, Paris Biennale, 1967; and Prix de la ville de Liége, 1969. In the 1960s Farrell was a scenic artist on the films The Lion in Winter, Dracula Rises from the Grave and The Country Dance. While early and later producing figurative work, Farrell was in the 1960s one of the first artists of his generation to adopt rigorous abstraction. Other pictures from the 1970s made “every possible statement on the Irish situation, religion, cultural, political, the cruelty, the horror, every aspect of it.