Shawn Sullivan

Bad to the Bone

Test Results

Bird in still life

Bird and shark. Painted in trompe-l'œil style and sold unframed.

The Power of One, 2019

Here is David Shevlino's Skull with crown created with a minimal range of colors, and features the artist's sensuous application of paint and controll...

Original painting signed by the Artist in lower left.

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence. Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level. For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf...

My paintings are glimpses into my perception of life along the coast of Maine and the high desert of Taos, N.M. Using rich color and employing the dramatic light of the coast and...