Artist : Spencer Shakespear
Title : Red Kite Revival
Medium : oil, acrylic, charcoal, graphic on canvas
Dimensions : 170 x 195 cm


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Born in in London, Spencer Shakespeare discovered his addiction to the natural world in his yearly holidays to Cornwall with his family, which, after 20 years of living on Australia’s Gold Coast he has returned to, residing near Penzance where he says the bird song is at its most beautiful. Being an obsessive and automatic drawer since the age of seven, Shakespeare completed a degree in Illustration at Bournemouth College of Art and Design. He enjoys transcribing places of intersection; the coastline, the edge of forests - places where a transition of boundaries takes place. The garden is significant in his work because of the element of interchange between the domestic boundary and the beginning of wilderness. Although he is inspired by such places, he never strives to capture the specifics of the landscape around him, instead drawing and exposing his own imaginary world upon it. His work connotes a kind of mystery and magic - a world where high contrast colours inject  life force: vibrating with an emotional energy. His semi-abstract canvases show the blurred boundaries of the humming world he witnesses.