Shaz Art

Living in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. I paint expressive and intuitive abstracts with realistic elements entwined.

My story
Creating has been part of me for as long as I can remember. From scribbling in school books to making my own ‘paints’ from flower petals as a child before I knew what paint was! I’ve always felt the need to turn what I imagined in my head into something tangible. I was forever infatuated with creating, the fact I can create something with my own bare hands that didn’t exist before but now has a place in this world because I made it.

Painting opened up a world where I could translate the images and emotions in my mind onto canvas. Over the years, I’ve developed a style that combines the precision of realistic subjects which need focus and study, with the freedom of expressive, intuitive mark-making, chaos, texture and energetic colour which allows me to get lost and follow my brush instead. Although the majority of my abstracts usually develop into a home for an animal, and sometimes I don’t know which until the idea appears, I occasionally work other subjects into my paintings.

Art has always been my escape — a way to create a different world from the everyday.

I’ve continued to create throughout the years an...