Shannon Richardson Paintings

I am a narrative-driven oil painter whose practice centers on process, intuition, and the physicality of paint. Through layered mark-making and richly textured surfaces, I construct imagined worlds that hover between memory and fantasy. The narrative within each painting is not predetermined; instead, it unfolds through an ongoing dialogue with the material. I allow the paint to dictate the evolution of the work, responding to its movement, resistance, and accumulation until the image is revealed. This gives the work a sense of romance and reverie, it is a way of being honest without being accurate It allows me to commemorate the experience of self discovery and turn these insights into something beautiful and tangible, but not quite real.