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Sarah Shaw - Hall of Mirrors , by AoT Framing on Nov 21, 2017 16:41:04 GMT 1, Sarah Shaw 'Hall of Mirrors'

"Shaw’s paintings sneak right up to the classical formulas of beauty and composition, and then quickly back away again leaving the viewer wanting. She dangles completion in front of the onlooker like an unreachable carrot. While this palpable manipulation is at times uncomfortable, its reflection in contemporary life is equally so. The works evokes the emotions of incompleteness and wanting that can riddle this over-promised and unfulfilled 3rd millennium reality." -Seth Orion Schwaiger MFA, GSA

Sarah graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2001; her work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad, and resides in many private collections, including Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood. She works from her studio in Brighton.



'I had an intention to create a certain painting with a certain feeling. This one didn’t happen. It obviously wasn’t the right time for it. The one that emerged once I’d turned the canvas upside down and continued working surprised me. It felt like a true reflection of my working process – I initially called it ‘House of Cards’ to reflect the precariousness of the making process in which passionate feeling can make or destroy a painting in seconds. ‘Hall of Mirrors’ seemed so much more apt once I realised that I had inadvertently painted into the work the face of one of the people who first believed in my work, and has since bought three of my original paintings. The exits and entrances within the painting, the precariousness of the paintwork and the creeping something on the ceiling all combine to create what is for me an accurate summary of what happens emotionally and physically in the studio Pressures, uncertainties, a few ghosts. A sense of history. A sense every time
of picking up a brush and going alongside all those painters down the ages and also having a slight sense of your own ridiculousness in having your heart in your mouth every time you make a painting.'

Hall of Mirrors was the winning painting at this years British women artist competition 2017.
www.britishwomenartists.com/competition.php

To celebrate the award, Art of Treason have published a very small print edition of just 25 copies.       Medium: Giclee with silkscreen varnish on 330gsm somerset velvet paper. Signed and numbered. 60 x 60cm.£250 + p&p.

Sarah Shaw 'Hall of Mirrors'

"Shaw’s paintings sneak right up to the classical formulas of beauty and composition, and then quickly back away again leaving the viewer wanting. She dangles completion in front of the onlooker like an unreachable carrot. While this palpable manipulation is at times uncomfortable, its reflection in contemporary life is equally so. The works evokes the emotions of incompleteness and wanting that can riddle this over-promised and unfulfilled 3rd millennium reality." -Seth Orion Schwaiger MFA, GSA

Sarah graduated from Falmouth College of Art in 2001; her work has been purchased by private collectors in the UK and abroad, and resides in many private collections, including Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood. She works from her studio in Brighton.



'I had an intention to create a certain painting with a certain feeling. This one didn’t happen. It obviously wasn’t the right time for it. The one that emerged once I’d turned the canvas upside down and continued working surprised me. It felt like a true reflection of my working process – I initially called it ‘House of Cards’ to reflect the precariousness of the making process in which passionate feeling can make or destroy a painting in seconds. ‘Hall of Mirrors’ seemed so much more apt once I realised that I had inadvertently painted into the work the face of one of the people who first believed in my work, and has since bought three of my original paintings. The exits and entrances within the painting, the precariousness of the paintwork and the creeping something on the ceiling all combine to create what is for me an accurate summary of what happens emotionally and physically in the studio Pressures, uncertainties, a few ghosts. A sense of history. A sense every time
of picking up a brush and going alongside all those painters down the ages and also having a slight sense of your own ridiculousness in having your heart in your mouth every time you make a painting.'

Hall of Mirrors was the winning painting at this years British women artist competition 2017.
www.britishwomenartists.com/competition.php

To celebrate the award, Art of Treason have published a very small print edition of just 25 copies.       Medium: Giclee with silkscreen varnish on 330gsm somerset velvet paper. Signed and numbered. 60 x 60cm.£250 + p&p.