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Icy Stare

$320.00

Kathryn Shagas, Belfast, Maine

Materials: Acrylic on Yupo on panel, framed

Size: 7 × 7 inches, [click to see entire image]

Shipping: Included in price

Every home deserves the presence of Kathryn Shagas—a painter whose work doesn’t just hang on a wall but activates the entire room. Her pieces are alive with color, intuition, elegance, and a magnetic emotional charge, offering both aesthetic gravitas and a big dose of mystery. Shagas’ ability to merge her very poetic abstraction with a confident contemporary hand makes her work timeless, collectible, and deeply resonant. Owning her art is not simply acquiring a painting— it’s bringing home a living conversation, a story, one that grows richer and more revealing with every viewing.

Kathryn is an award winning artists and her work has been very important to Juniper Rag over the years and she has been a champion supporter of our mission. One of her pieces is a signature piece for the Artist Touched by Addiction acquisition with Spectrum Health Services. We are proud to offer this piece that was a part of the Delirium exhibition in October.

Kathryn Shagas, Belfast, Maine

Materials: Acrylic on Yupo on panel, framed

Size: 7 × 7 inches, [click to see entire image]

Shipping: Included in price

Every home deserves the presence of Kathryn Shagas—a painter whose work doesn’t just hang on a wall but activates the entire room. Her pieces are alive with color, intuition, elegance, and a magnetic emotional charge, offering both aesthetic gravitas and a big dose of mystery. Shagas’ ability to merge her very poetic abstraction with a confident contemporary hand makes her work timeless, collectible, and deeply resonant. Owning her art is not simply acquiring a painting— it’s bringing home a living conversation, a story, one that grows richer and more revealing with every viewing.

Kathryn is an award winning artists and her work has been very important to Juniper Rag over the years and she has been a champion supporter of our mission. One of her pieces is a signature piece for the Artist Touched by Addiction acquisition with Spectrum Health Services. We are proud to offer this piece that was a part of the Delirium exhibition in October.

 

Kathryn Shagas

Artist Statement

As soon as I enter a forest or step onto a rocky shoreline I feel part of a world humming with life. The sounds of wind and water calm the neural waves in my brain and immerse my senses in the rhythmic energy connecting everything around me. From the viewpoint of physics, all life in our universe is vibrating at various frequencies, including rocks, trees and objects that appear stationary. Today this delicate balance of rhythms that we depend on for life is endangered by climate change.

Drawing from my early training in piano and the interplay between equilibrium and chaos, I let music flow through my body as I combine monotype, paint, drawing media, and collage pieces cut from earlier paintings. I think of these mixed media paintings and freeform collage as stories hidden in nature’s rhythms, a reminder of connection when there is still time to choose reconciliation and renewal.

Bio

 Originally from Montreal, I studied classical piano from age four through 20, then worked in New York and Baltimore as an offset printer, pacifist magazine editor and graphic designer. After a year of independent international bicycle travel that included China, Tibet, Bali and New Zealand, I built an graphic design firm in Maryland that served nonprofit clients. I’m now a full-time artist living and working in Belfast on the Gulf of Maine, which has warmed faster than 99% of the global ocean.