Shaun Horne
Shaun Horne paints landscapes with a large scale plein air method. He starts and finishes his large canvases on site, by returning day after day to the same place and light, in the manner of Claude Monet. On the other hand Shaun paints with an American hard-edge more akin to Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper, or Georgia O’Keefe. These edges are time consuming relative to Monet’s soft massing, and more so at the large plein air scale Shaun adopted from Kent. In consequence Shaun has developed among the most intense and sustained plein air painting methods to date. Born in 1968, as of 2010 Shaun has already produced over 700 large-scale, pure plein air, multi-session paintings of over 20 hours apiece. This is a pace of plein air painting that matches any, ever. The vast majority of those paintings have been purchased.
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