Blue Composition on White Ground, 1960 by Sam Francis

Sam Francis has had exhibitions around the world and is highly respected. His paintings, taking Oriental Mysticism as his inspiration, are beautifully rendered with the thin texture of his paint and frequent contrast of colour and void. Besides paintings and murals, he has explored a number of media, perhaps most sensationally his painting in 1966 produced by five helicopters releasing coloured pigments into the air.