STELLA SHAWPainting the Contemporary Surreal
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Statement
Springing from painting in isolation during the pandemic, stella’s Body of work was inspired by her responses to dramatic news stories she listened to every day.
this period provided a new opportunity to move away from her previous landscape based paintings to new inspirations, PROCESSES and story based themes. She now draws subjects from her own personal stories interwoven with dramatic changing news bulletins. Stella is excited by surrealist art and seeks to bring a touch of the contemporary surreal to her own work.
Her paintings are integrations of colour and expressive mark-making combined with fragments of photo-collage, with human and text references.
She enjoys The versatility and speed of mixed media, using an alternate layering and sanding back process to reveal under-layers which enrich the surface. She builds the feeling of contrast, depth, colour and emotional complexity echoing her interest in abstract expressionism..
stella paints from her studio in Cirencester, located in one of the most beautiful areas of the uk. She regularly participates in exhibitions and Open Studio events both locally and in london.
Stella has taught painting and drawing to adults since 2013 and she is the founder of Painting Zone Art Workshops
