The paintings are made with acrylic paint on canvas stretched on a wooden frame, they can be hung without an outer frame.
I like the mystery of art, how images arrive through the process of painting and repainting. Animals usually appear and I think they link to the unconscious or collective consciousness.
I am open to letting the ideas flow through me. Works that are sold are held in private collections in America, New Zealand, Europe and the UK.

Painting has a powerful energy for me and sometimes I feel it takes so much physically and mentally starting with a blank canvas and working with line, colour and form until an image arrives.
I have painted animals for many years but the human figure has been calling me for sometime. I think the art dolls are one way I can bring the human form into my work. In away I am unable to say where painting will take me next and that is the journey.

In 2024 I have continued making art dolls and started to make stitched rolls using a range of recycled materials and thread they seem to be a form of collage made on fabric rather than paper. I like the challenge they present because, as with the paintings, I don't know what the finished outcomes will be. I am not planning to make them to sell they are experimental pieces, its like trying to find a new way to say something. I like the simplicity of materials: a needle, thread and fabric. It is also tactile: soft, smooth, silky and wonderfully colourful. I will be adding photos to the textile page soon.

"I found I could say things with colour and shapes that I couldn't say in any other way - things I had no words for"
Georgia O'Keeffe.

Many thanks to my customers your support is really appreciated.
Thankyou for your interest.
Please contact me at contact@colleenshaw.co.uk if you are interested in my work.

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