BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting
In my work, forested landscapes are used to explore an altered state of consciousness that exists between the surrounding world, and the inner psyche; between waking and the dream state. Nightfall, an uninhabited wooded area, once familiar becomes unfamiliar territory. Boundaries between the recognisable and the unknown are blurred and the watcher can just as easily become the watched. Figures are intermittent throughout my work. Their discrete presence often missed at first glance, means that they are never entirely present, nor are they absent. There is a sense of something, that is about to happen but it is never explicit, thus it robs the paintings of narrative resolution, leaving them in a state disequilibrium. www.shawnmcgovern.co.uk
