New Paintings
SHAUN McDOWELL
133 Copeland Road, Peckham
Shaun McDowell’s figurative paintings hold suffering and joy, agitation and peace, longing and
satisfaction - the strange combined qualities of being alive. Paint is applied by hand and with
oil stick rubbed, stubbed, smeared and spread across the board to create smooth areas of
just-present colour, heavier built up passages and the punctuation of short, elegant marks. The
strength of these paintings is their ability to appear abstract yet suggest quite precisely the
feeling of the female form and record the experience of it.
