Modern Day Ophelia Painting

Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw is an Artist from Newcastle, England. Works and lives in Glasgow, with a studio based at Dornoch Street Studios. She studied her BA in Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2018. This year she was awarded the Edwin John Easydorchik travelling scholarship by North Tyneside Community Foundation; The Glasgow Visual Artist and Craft Maker award by Creative Scotland; and awarded her first solo show 'No Prospects, Bright Future' by Saltspace, Glasgow. Danielle has Exhibited in London, Glasgow, Inverness, and Newcastle. In 2021 her work was featured in her first publication with The Alchemy Experiment called 'Love & Chaos' and featured again 2022 with their publication called 'It'll Be Alright'. Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw’s work derives from memories, art history and contemporary life. Life sized moments and the subjects which present themselves in the works, are the driving force to her practice. The Artist has always had a keen eye for portraiture, her current work has found a love for large flat plane shapes of colour – Now colourful, symbolic and compositional interior elements are the driving force of the painted image, but the complex interweaving of figures remains a common thread. Today her Subjects are depicted in a realistic manner often using figures drawn from her own personal archives. The Artists Subjects are captured in moments of intimacy whether that maybe the privacy of their own home, or an interior space to the closeness of communicating with one’s friends. Danielle uses saturated and vibrant colour, removing shadows to heighten both her their stylized and disconnect from reality, translating the three-dimensional world into block colour and flat lines, all the while retaining the complexity of the image.