Pat Shenstone

Artist Statement

I take a lot of photographs, I collect images from different sources.  Over the years I have developed a method of constructing a painting by collaging different images together, this allows me to invent a story, I consider my work to be narrative / figurative, my work does not attempt to provide answers rather it poses questions.

I work rapidly on the canvas so that the work has a certain surety, I paint most of a canvas in one sitting , and then I leave it , to fester? Or maybe to gestate. after a time, it may change.

Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Together Apart.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Last Few For Breakfast.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Last Few For Breakfast.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Madrid Street Cafe.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Madrid Street Cafe.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Refectory Lunch.
Media: Oil on canvas. Size: 76 cm x 61 cm. Title: Refectory Lunch.