By
Ian Shearer
Piece description from the artist
The summer is a riot of color, particularly if you have a brain injury. The lush greens of leaves and jewel tones of flowers are often hard for my brain to reconcile. The landscape becomes a weird mishmash of flat and 3 dimensional as my brain tries to make sense of the visual information. Creating an odd feeling of euphoria that nearly overwhelms me. In this piece I am trying to communicate this sensation. Hidden in the piece are small bits of medical notes detailing my stroke symbol of living with an invisible disability.
Ian Shearer is an artist based in Seattle, Washington. He is a graduate of The Academy of Art University of San Francisco.
In 2018, Ian survived a massive stroke. Through intense therapy he was able to regain use of the right side of his body, however, his painting style and abilities were greatly changed. These changes have led him to “start over” as an artist.Currently, Ian’s work focuses on urban landscapes. Using the city as a lens to explore themes of isolation, subjective reality, sensory experience, and memory; often finding beauty in the everyday moments of urban life. These moments intrigue him, especially as ordinary moments become extraordinary in the wake of disability.
Through his work, Ian is currently exploring the changes in his visual language and working on developing a dialogue of post-stroke experience. Adding another voice to a condition that affects hundreds of thousands and documenting the recovery process through mark-making.
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