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Penumbra” is a new collection of seventeen paintings in oil from artist Shaun Friend (Craww)

His work creates narratives that are drawn from the beauty to be found in contradictions and ambiguity - life and death, beauty and decay, strength, fragility, the interplay between conflicting and complementing forces of nature and the constructs that mark our passing.

Inspired by time spent in Rome and Florence, the new pieces draw heavily from classical and historical reference points to create narratives that exists in a space between dark and light. Each piece tells a story, or an aspect of an …