How The Oyster Makes The Pearl
‘How The Oyster Makes The Pearl’ is composed of 8 paintings for walls, floors and tables. It presents the world translucently in a careful matrix of tone, opacity and colour. While framed, stuffed or folded like things we intend to keep safe and admire forever, Shiel's flat vanishing spaces are already evanescing. They reveal the shape-shifting dimensions of a sentient landscape, in which reflections abandon their hosts, horizons up-sticks from their axis, gestural marks pose wilfuly and light plays tricks before disappearing. Installation Shots: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, 2019. Supported by The Arts Council and DCC Visual Artist Bursary Awards, 2018.
paintings for floors and tables