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John David O'Shaughnessy


John David O’ Shaughnessy is best known for his adept and powerful capture of the movement and shifting color and light of the ocean. His gestural and expressive paintings explore seascape observed directly from life “Plein Air”. His intense works glean a visceral and material sense of the forces of nature for the viewer. Yet, throughout ocean many infused years, he was also exploring the human face and it’s subtle moods with his color sensibilities and gestures. Facial expressions found their way into his paintings and his ceramics, and now the elemental human visage has begun to take on a new presence in his work.                     O’ Shaughnessy is poised to match his discipline in teaching students new modes of self portraiture, with a fresh emotive face revealing exploration of his own.
~Kennebec Valley Art Association
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"Fall River Reflection" oil on canvas 18" x 24" $2,400

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"Late Fall Reflection" oil on canvas 24" x 30" $3,900

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"Pine Moon" oil on canvas 30" x 24" $3,900

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"Golden Trees" oil on canvas 24"x 24" $3,100

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""Dusk Fall Light" oil on canvas 20" x 24" $2,650


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"Forest Shadows" oil on canvas 24" x 30" $3,900

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"Late Fall Trees" oil on canvas 18" x 24" $2,400

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"Roses for Her" oil on canvas 8" x 14" image $650
John David’s work involves a process of discovery through building up and breaking down of the surface. His painting process involves creating passage and then editing and wipe out large areas, in a dance of visual language. He allows each part of the painting to be moveable and changeable, knocking elements off balance and then bring the painting back to center. The artist says that “…the human quality of painting is important as a means of communication in the work, it allows for vulnerability and honesty.”
The ever changing motion of water is primal and visceral to the human experience for John David. These ocean paintings are direct responses to nature, time, place, memory, light phenomena, color, shape, texture and form within the singularity of two dimensional form. They are painted on location and are a direct response to the changing environment of water, tide, sky and light experienced through the senses. The artist strives to achieve a relationship between the physicality of paint and the consist change and of the coastal experience. 
It is the artists hope these paintings are experienced on a level deeper than appearances, alluding to the unattainable and unnameable, beyond self while establishing a sense of place. 

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