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Kathryn Shagas, Belfast, Maine

Materials: Acrylic, collage and drawing media on Yupo

Size: 30× 42 inches unframed, 34 × 46 inches framed, [click image for full view]

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Kathryn Shagas paints the unseen pulse of our natural world. The unseen vibrations between wind and water, memory and music, chaos and calm. Kathryn’s abstract paintings feel like living atmospheres, layered with intuition, tonal achievements, movement and emotional resonance that really makes you look closer. Her work is created from a combination of creative inspirations including decades of design mastery, classical piano training, and deep observation of Maine’s rugged coastline.

To collect a work by Kathryn Shagas is to bring home a piece that continues to unfold over time. Her paintings reward our repeated viewing. Over time, in different lighting, Kathryn’s paintings reveal so much movement, deep textures and hidden visual conversations that shift with light and distance. Each painting has an edge that is enmeshed in her carnival of colors. Purely Kathryn. We love this identifier because it gives her work fire. Rooted in the elemental energy of the waters of Maine and shaped by a life devoted to creativity, travel and creativity, her work carries both sophistication and soul. Kathryn Shagas creates show stopper contemporary abstraction with genuine emotional gravity.

Kathryn Shagas, Belfast, Maine

Materials: Acrylic, collage and drawing media on Yupo

Size: 30× 42 inches unframed, 34 × 46 inches framed, [click image for full view]

US Continental Shipping: Included in price.

Kathryn Shagas paints the unseen pulse of our natural world. The unseen vibrations between wind and water, memory and music, chaos and calm. Kathryn’s abstract paintings feel like living atmospheres, layered with intuition, tonal achievements, movement and emotional resonance that really makes you look closer. Her work is created from a combination of creative inspirations including decades of design mastery, classical piano training, and deep observation of Maine’s rugged coastline.

To collect a work by Kathryn Shagas is to bring home a piece that continues to unfold over time. Her paintings reward our repeated viewing. Over time, in different lighting, Kathryn’s paintings reveal so much movement, deep textures and hidden visual conversations that shift with light and distance. Each painting has an edge that is enmeshed in her carnival of colors. Purely Kathryn. We love this identifier because it gives her work fire. Rooted in the elemental energy of the waters of Maine and shaped by a life devoted to creativity, travel and creativity, her work carries both sophistication and soul. Kathryn Shagas creates show stopper contemporary abstraction with genuine emotional gravity.

Kathryn Shagas, Belfast, Maine

STATEMENT/BIO

I make paintings and collages about nature’s rhythms, the flow energy in motion that unifies all of life. I walk in the woods or on Maine’s rocky shoreline, absorbing the rhythmic feeling of place. Turning from the water, I see the bluff falling away, exposed tree roots and some birches still hanging on but practically horizontal. In the studio I look for connectivity while there is still time to choose renewal.

Kathryn Shagas is a Belfast, Maine, mixed media artist. Her work is currently in exhibitions at Triangle Gallery/Rockland, ME, Juniper Rag/Dwell (online) and Union of Maine Visual Artists venues in Portland and Camden, ME. Her work has been collected and exhibited nationally. Originally from Montreal, Shagas studied classical piano from age four through 20, worked as an offset printer, pacifist magazine editor and graphic designer, traveled internationally by bicycle for a year and then headed a graphic design firm in Maryland and Maine before becoming a full-time artist. Shagas holds a BFA in design from Philadelphia College of Art. Shagas is represented in Maine by Triangle Gallery in Rockland.