About Martin Shaw
Martin Shaw is a painter, mythologist and wilderness teacher. For four years he lived under canvas and has found painting is a way of communicating something of that experience.
A scholar from the British School in Rome, his awards also include the Bretherton, Elgood, Price award for outstanding achievement in the Arts and the Robert Bly GMC scholarship.
He is the result of a dispute between a thunderstorm and the heavy curves of a peruvian bandit queen. He paints with a splinter in a lusty cave whilst listening to Canta Jondo and smoking dirty cigars. He thinks artists should apprentice to the Moon and the arts schools need to move back out into the country again.
"I know I live half alive in this worlld. Half my life belongs to the wild darkness" Galway Kinnell
www.stalkingtherebelsoul.com
www.schoolofmyth.com
The painting is some kind of continuem of sensations and ideas that goes back a long time, centuries, and i'm nourished by that. I hope bits of old painters stick up in the work like the tips of great icebergs as my wyrd tugboat passes.
I know of no occupation that messes with your head like painting; it's real magician territory if you take it seriously.
