Liam Kean is a painter based in Shropshire England

art@liamkean.com

I live and work in Shropshire, England. My paintings have been shown in galleries all over the UK and belong in several private collections.

I create mostly large, mostly abstract oil paintings. Colours emerge from the darkness - sometimes focused, sharp and enticing - other times blurred, messy and ugly, with clearly little regard for formal technique. My work attempts to blur the lines between passion and nihilism - an attempt to not give a damn about something you care too much about - or the representation of the wanting to make sense of the noise inside one's head which flits between blurred and focused, an attempt to understand an issue, person, situation or mental state, and in that understanding, be able to discard it. A desire to not give a f**k about something: it’s like wanting to not care about a past relationship because it hurts - but you only want to not care precisely because you do care so much - and that conflict is noisy and messy. That issue usually comes from a place of darkness - colour is the desire, but it is also the noise, the mess, the blur, the memory, the focus, the hope.

I have an alter ego - they live in a different country, they eat different food, listen to music I hate, and want different things than I do…….I have never met them.  I mean: how could I have met them? They are the one person I could never meet,  what with being the same person as me, right?  Crazy, huh?  - you can’t shake your own hand.

“I don’t want to do what you tell me!!!” - this defines me.  I want to run wild and free, YET, I am confined by the desire for the things I am told to want…………It can make you lonely

I paint things……

THINGS (noun)
1.  An object that one need not, cannot, or does not wish to give a specific name to.
2. An inanimate material object as distinct from a living sentient being.

I clearly don’t paint things…….so what do I paint?

I paint paintings……..that’s better.