Ben Shearer
Ben Shearer (born 1941 in Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian artist who specializes in watercolor painting of the Outback.
History
When Shearer was six years old, an injury during a game of
Victoria and studied textiles. During this time, he lived at the Geelong Grammar School and met his future wife. Shearer attended post-graduate school at the Scottish Woollen Technical College in Galashiels, Scotland, where he studied fabric design and weaving. After graduate school, Shearer moved to Melbourne and worked as a carpet designer for 11 years. While living in Melbourne, his wife gave birth to their two sons Andrew and Tim.[1][2]
During the next three decades, Shearer taught himself how to design clothes, weave, make tapestries, draw in pastels, and paint. In 1979, Shearer began his art teaching career at
Perth. The next year, he began teaching at Scotch College in Melbourne for 14 years. In 1995, he began to focus exclusively on his artwork and now uses his home as a studio. Shearer starts with pencil drawings on French Arshes paper and then applies the paint. There are usually four to six watercolours being worked on at the same time, so that when he works on one painting, the others can dry.[1][2]
In addition to his paintings of the Outback, Shearer's works include scenes of
Embassy of Australia in Washington, D.C. He resides in Malvern, Victoria with his wife of 48 years, Caroline.[3][1]
References
- ^ a b c d Bellamy, Louise (12 February 2005). "Rich, raw outback imagery". The Age. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
- ^ a b "Ben Shearer". AXIA Modern Art. Archived from the original on 12 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-06-13.
- ^ Dawon, Jessica (18 November 2004). "'Bells' That Don't Ring True". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 24 January 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
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