Brian Shields
Brian is a multimedia artist living in the North Eden Valley. Although primary a painter he loves to sculpt, make prints and has also experimented with film.
He has two very distinct bodies of work - Art of the real, which focuses on the human condition and mans relationship with nature and work of the imagined, which explores folklore, myth, and Romanticism.
For someone who considers himself to be a cheery optimist Brian is often surprised and bewildered as to the melancholy nature of his work - the yin to the others yang perhaps?! He expresses a hope that however unexpected they all display some residual beauty - strange as that beauty possibly may be?
