SHAUN BELCHER: NEW ART

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getting back on track: latest project in progress

LATEST PROJECT: track
Using images of ‘migrant’ plant life found along a disused railway line in Oxfordshire over which I am superimposing sets of three words which reflect on not only the migrant plant histories but also reflect wider current concerns with displacement, nationality and sense of place.
The Didcot to Newbury and Southampton railway line [...]

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Suit of Nettles : Lincoln Collection 2008

12 paintings each related to a song on the album ‘Suit of Nettles’ (hear below). Drawing on American South Folk Art and contemporary ‘Modern Folk’ artists like Daniel Johnston and Margaret Kilgallen. As the Professor from Derby said ” this is not naive art..this is knowingly done” ..it takes a lot of knowledge to paint [...]

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