Jonathan shaw artist biography
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Statement
My work documents the slow metamorphosis of cluttered urban spaces and other locales that I discover through exploration. Recreated as illustrative ink and acrylic paintings on wood, it memorializes the ongoing transformation of the familiar locales we tend to overlook in our daily routines. It celebrates crumbly detritus, dumpsters, graffiti and discarded objects.
My pieces combine complex ink lines with transparent layers of acrylic, harmoniously blending spontaneous marks with detailed structure. These techniques, fuelled by the narrative between person and place, results in unique work that celebrates the interactive relationship between environment and inhabitant.
Bio
I was born and raised in St. Catharines, Ontario and received my BFA from Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick in 2008. In 2010 I relocated to Vancouver, BC to establish my studio practice in a fresh new environment.
In Vancouver, I spent eight years documenting the rapidly evolving alleyways and industrial spaces of the Downtown Eastside. A wealth of crumbling brick, wiry cables and overwhelming clutter, these environments fuelled a generous series of urban landscape paintings.
In 2018 I returned to my hometown of St. Catharines, where I continue to develop new work and exh
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Jonathan Shaw
There’s way more to critically acclaimed contemporary landscape artist, Jonathan Shaw than first meets the eye. Like for example, the fact that he’s pretty darn useful/good at contemporary figurative art too, which perhaps isn’t as flagged up as it should be. But then that’s what we’re here to do. Yup, landscapes aside Shaw has created predominantly pastel likenesses of a host of instantly familiar faces from the worlds of film and music. The eclectic likes of Johnny Depp, John Wayne, Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles amongst others.
According to the celebrated contemporary landscape AND figurative artist’s own website, ‘The World of Jonathan Shaw is a place of sweeping skies vivid colours and smouldering horizons inspired by the artists extensive travels’. Which is quite the statement/intro by all accounts. But then totally justified as soon as you make yourself familiar with his signature works; or simply reacquaint yourselves if a little rusty. Born in Leeds, Yorkshire in 1959, Shaw was destined to follow in his father’s footsteps, who himself was something of a painter before him. He, Shaw Jnr, recalls avidly watching his father at work all through his own early years and sensed that one day he too would perhaps forge a livin