Artist Bio

Shane grew up in a large family in a small Saskatchewan farming community, with no TV, no radio, and not much in the way of modern distraction. What he had was drawing, and that turned out to be enough. Art became the thing he kept returning to, and eventually the thing that defined him.

He traded the prairies for Ontario, then Ontario for the East Coast, and is now based in Fredericton on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. His landscapes draw from the broader Maritime coastline: the Hopewell Rocks, fishing villages in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, lighthouses in PEI. Alongside this, he works in figurative painting, abstract composition, and large-scale public murals. Commissioned mural work spans civic, corporate, and community contexts, including projects for Google, TD Bank, and Communitech, as well as the award-winning public mural “Farms to Families” in Simcoe, Ontario.

Years in creative leadership and design have brought a certain discipline and structural thinking to his fine art practice. He is recently expanded his practice through the CATAPULT program with ArtsLinkNB.

When not painting, he finds quiet focus building Lego, which is, it turns out, an unexpectedly effective counterbalance to life in the studio.