Grandpa Shea

Using the the most basic of tools - a humble two dollar 0.5mm mechanical pencil (he hates sharpening pencils), an eraser or two and some paper. Grandpa Shea creates emotive dark detailed imagery. His raw and gritty, untraced work, utilizes the texture of black pencil line, never trying to capture photo-realism. Producing single image illustrations and sequential story, the work is figurative, surreal and at times bordering on the bizarre. Held together by a common theme, in each series the artwork is a constant struggle between mess and control.