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Billy Shannon's Studio

Art of a questionable reality
2023 Back to the Labyrinth
Back to the
Mouth of the Labyrinth
Billy Shannon using the projector to overlay an early concept
      of the multiverse on his large painting of the Mothertree

New ideas and techniques developed in 2023!

A lot of new ideas and techniques developed in 2023! New work mixed with some of the Sentience series, new ideas developing and reworking a portrait of my friend, Eugene Gilfedder.

I love how studios are cauldrons of ideas!


Under the Bodhi
Trees in silent sentience.
We speak underground


Sentience

Under the Bodhi tree - the meditator disappears — acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 122 × 152 cm, Billy Shannon, 2023

Under the Bodhi tree - the meditator disappears
Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 122 × 152 cm, 2023


Billy Shannon's studio, December 2023

The studio at the end of December 2023

I bought a digital projector this year as I have been wanting to incorporate quite complex forms as overlays to some of my work. It's a fantastic tool and harks back to the camera obscura.

In the hero image at the top of the page, I'm using the projector to overlay an early concept of the multiverse on the Mothertree painting. This melds the regeneration aspects of the work, with particle physics and Buddhist philosophy — the observation of the insubstantial nature of everything.

In tandem with that, I have been using digital media to create limited edition prints.


New Ideas Sentience