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Sean O'Shea is a visual artist based in Byron Bay, the
most easterly point of Australia. Byron Bay is part of an invigorating
and constantly evolving Australian arts community. Byron Bay is a meeting place for artists, musicians, writers, and dancers of all disciplines and styles.
Sean is interested in uncovering issues around identity and
belonging
and explores figures and textures that landscape the human condition.
He approaches composition with the realisation that the painting is a
living object, what lies beneath the surface of the painting is of
equal importance. The possibilities are unlimited and the first brush
stroke is the beginning of an untold story. He is interested in how colour
and tone affects the atmosphere and mood of an image, the unseen
rhythms, harmonies and light and the final relationship between painted
scene and the viewer.
Sean builds up areas of the image by using a succession
of brush strokes to accentuate vibrancy and then allows the insights and
intuition he feels to take shape and form enabling the painting to
move and come alive, breaking the static. The movement of paint on
canvas, the brushes and materials that
he uses are the puppetry that allows the symmetry and rhythm in the
painting to find its harmony and balance. He loves to explore the magnificent environment around Byron Bay, observing and discovering new meaning in his art practice.
His aim is to convey the depth of
the subject matter from palette onto canvas to the viewer.
Sean has traveled extensively and his current body of work has been influenced by his experience of a variety of cultures. He is interested in the diversity of music and dance and how that can be communicated through the painted medium.
© Copyright 2007-2008 Sean O'Shea.
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