Rob Shaw

Columbia, SC

Rob Shaw is an award-winning fine artist residing in Columbia, South Carolina. A graduate of the University of South Carolina (USC), he has years of artworld experience working in galleries and showing his paintings. Rob's method involves sketching lightly and quickly with charcoal. Then, he says, ìI just start slinging paint and moving toward my intended goal as I go.î He uses a large palette knife, starting with the most distant subject and moving toward the closest objects in a source image. For example, with landscapes he typically starts with the sky then moves to the tree line.



Rob never considers his work a failure: "Mistakes lend history to the canvas," he says, and he often paints new works over old ones. He even intentionally alters perfectly good images to lend character to a painting; he will, for example, drag a sheet of plexiglass across a wet painting to achieve certain effects. Rob's work can be seen in many private and corporate collections in the US and abroad.

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