George Shaw - landscape

George Shaw is an English contemporary artist who is noted for his suburban subject matter. His work mainly focuses on the Tile Hill estate of Conventry were he spent his childhood.

Like myself, Shaw recognises the beauty in the mundane and 'nothingness' of English towns. His early work highlights the idea of nostalgia and a sense of growing up. His work also has a film quality about it with the colour palette that he implements in his work which also creates a sense of time pasting and memory.

Compositionally, Shaws work serves as inspiration particularly his head-on structures. Composition is just as important as context in art and photography so to me these head-on structures create the idea of dealing with childhood and memory head-on rather than obscuring it.

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