shaun ferguson
SHAUN FERGUSON

Shaun Ferguson Artist Information:

Shaun Ferguson is a graduate from the Royal Academy Schools. A previous outright winner of the Discerning Eye, ‘New Discovery Award’ (at the time the largest financial award bestowed on any artists in an open competition in the UK). Shaun’s work has been praised by critics and held in major private and public collections around the world, including Dublin’s Museum of Modern Art, Ulster Museum and the Durban Museum in South Africa.

Other awards include the Henry Wyndham Prize, the Elizabeth Greenshields Award and the David Murray Award for landscape painting and a finalist in 2011 Discerning Eye Awards.

“Capturing people in a quiet moment of reverie and achieving a balance between paint and subject matter are my aims with the paintings. To both represent and give some inner life to a figure is a compelling and often elusive challenge.”

– Shaun Ferguson, Artist

Shaun Ferguson Solo Exhibition 30th April 2020

 To view the e-catalogue click here

The Exhibition will take place as a Virtual Show, and the Fairfax Gallery will offer complimentary free safe delivery in the UK

New paintings released below.

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Slingshot Acrylic on Canvas 66 x 50cm
(With frame106 x 60cm) £4950
Signals Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 100cm on Deep Canvas (Unframed) £5800
Boxer 5 Oil on Canvas-71-x- 66-cm ( 96-x 91 cm) SOLD
Garden Acrylic on Canvas
81 x 60cm (With frame 106 x 85cm) £6200
It was gone in a flash Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 60cm (With frame 105 x 85cm) SOLD
Breathe in Breathe out Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 60cm (With frame 105 x 85cm) £6100
The Daughter of Mr & Mrs Andrews Acrylic on Canvas
86 x 55cm (With frame 112 x 80cm) SOLD
Snake Plant Acrylic on Canvas
81x 60cm (With frame 106 x 85cm) £6200
Balloon Room Acrylic on Canvas
66 x 55cm (With frame 91 x 80cm) £4950
Just Right Acrylic on Canvas
46 x 41 cm
Sheet II Acrylic on Canvas
66 x 61cm
Buffalo Acrylic on Canvas 91 x 56 cm
Metal Rabbit Acrylic on Canvas
81 x 61cm (With frame 106 x 86cm) SOLD
Flyer Acrylic on Canvas
80 x 65cm (With frame 105 x 90 cm) £6200
Victory Acrylic on Canvas
66 x 50cm (With frame 91 x 75 cm) SOLD
Emma at Compton Oil on Canvas
50x 50cm (With frame 75 x 75cm) £4400
Party 3 Acrylic on Canvas
66x 61 cm
Bunny Acrylic on Canvas
55 x 66cm (With frame 80 x 91cm) £4950
Party Acrylic on Canvas
60 x 60 cm

Shaun Ferguson says of his work :

“This series of paintings mainly explore the female protagonist, as if plucked from a filmic or literary narrative. I intend these to be like all the best such characters – not passive and demure but strong and complex. With this in mind, I have in some cases allowed the figure to address the viewer, to stare straight back out and confront us. Props and costumes indicate play, battle or mischief. Part of the pleasure for myself comes in not quite knowing how things will play out – the implied narrative resulting from a specific model with a particular prop in a certain pose.

The paintings include oil and acrylic works, some noisy…bold and physical other quiet.. more rendered. Each painting should have its own personality through the coming together of colour, tone, mark and composition with the subject. This means responding intuitively and allowing each one to go its own way, to find its individual temperament.