Shane Blount
Shane Blount was born in Dublin in 1978 and grew up in Bray, County Wicklow. Interested in art at a young age and self-taught, Blount was influenced by the work of Rembrandt and contemporary artists Lucien Freud and Jenny Saville. In 2001, after three years of studying life drawing at Ballyfermot Senior College, Blount addressed himself to painting full-time. From participating in exhibitions in 2003 Blount received numerous private and commercial commissions. In 2005 his work was selected for the Greenstar Open Exhibition in the Mermaid Centre, Bray.
In a provocatively realist manner Blount paints people around him, capturing expressive figurative gesture through meticulous detail. Often, Blount's subjects are closely familiar to him - his sister, brother and, in this instance, himself. Blount finds that working with subjects whose personalities, emotions and gestures are familiar to him, including his own, provides him with a direct, pared down means of expressing the mood he wants to convey.
Blount's paintings have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Ireland, Scotland, England and Europe. His work is represented in many collections throughout Ireland, Britain and Europe.
In a provocatively realist manner Blount paints people around him, capturing expressive figurative gesture through meticulous detail. Often, Blount's subjects are closely familiar to him - his sister, brother and, in this instance, himself. Blount finds that working with subjects whose personalities, emotions and gestures are familiar to him, including his own, provides him with a direct, pared down means of expressing the mood he wants to convey.
Blount's paintings have been shown in numerous exhibitions in Ireland, Scotland, England and Europe. His work is represented in many collections throughout Ireland, Britain and Europe.