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Ian Shearman

Stormy Day over Mounts Bay

Blustery Day on Sennen Beach

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Across Coe Bay near Helston

Sennen Beach Penwith Cornwall

King's Tor near Princetown

Wet Afternoon St Michaels Mount

Evening Light over Creek Stephen Point

Changing Light King's Tor Dartmoor

Ian specialised in sculpture at Cheltenham Art College working in stone and bronze. During his degree he also worked with ceramics to produce functional and figurative pieces. After Art College he worked in the commercial world of ceramics for Royal Worcester Porcelain as a designer. He wasn't suited to commerce, so trained to be a teacher at Westminster College Oxford. It was there that he developed an understanding and passion for ceramics and started his research in ash glazes. He taught for eleven years in which time he took a Masters Degree in Philosophy at Bath University.

The next ten years was spent teaching ceramics and sculpture at Homerton College Cambridge. It was there he became interested in painting and printmaking.

Ian left Cambridge in 1977 to become a full time painter and has settled in Gloucestershire where he has a studio with a pottery, print and painting facilities. He spends most of his time working out in the landscape. He paints with acrylics as it is capable of responding to the myriad atmospheric conditions to which he is confronted.

His work has been exhibited at the Royal West of England Academy, Cambridge, Bath and Oxford University and in numerous prestigious galleries in the UK. His work is also in private collections in Europe, America, Australia and the Far East.