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Shane Blount (b.1978)
IN TOO DEEP, 2008
oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right; titled on reverse
40 by 60in. (101.60 by 152.40cm
Provenance:
Blueleaf Gallery, Dublin;
Where purchased by the present owner
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.
€2,000-€3,000 (£1,820-£2,730 approx.)
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