Location: Ireland
Angie Shanahan studied Fine Art Painting in the Crawford College of Art and Design.She has won many awards incl a Taylor Bequest Award,Vision Award and Ciall 11award for painting.Angie has also received several County Council Arts Awards and been awarded residencies in Ireland and abroad.She has exhibited widely throughout Ireland in solo,joint and selected group shows and undertaken private and public commissions here and in the UK.Angie is currently a studio member of Backwater Artists Group and a member of Cork Printmakers.She is also a member of VAI and represented in NIVAL(NCAD Dublin)
www.angieshanahanartist.com
As a visual artist one of my primary instincts is to try and distil the sense and soul of places that capture my attention.The physical reality we see and the invisible conceptual reality held in the spirit of the place.
Acrylic on Canvas.
30x30"
This painting is from a series about the harbour; an area of sanctuary before departure and on arrival.Steps and slipways,scarred markers of history,culture and memory focus my attention;a fragile reality holding forth against inundation and daily tidal surges.
Acrylic on Canvas.
30x30"
Lately due to a series of ongoing trips to Irish Islands, I have turned my attention to the harbour; an area of sanctuary before departure and on arrival.
Acrylic on Gesso Panel.
Size 16x12"
From the Sanctuary harbour series.
“Ebb and Flow”
“Island Meditation”
“Descent.”
