Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw
Newcastle, England
Danielle Metcalfe-Shaw is an Artist from Newcastle, England. She Graduate from Glasgow’s School of Art in; Painting and Printmaking in 2018. Since then she has exhibited in group shows around Glasgow, Inverness, Newcastle, and London. She lives and works in Glasgow with a studio based at Dornoch Street Studios in Glasgow’s East End.
Danielle’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. She has always had a keen eye for portraiture. 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, Danielle’s Subjects are depicted in a realistic manner often using figures drawn from her own personal archives; they 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.
