Jane Shea

While living as a child in Germany, Jane was introduced to some of the world’s great museums. However, nothing captured her attention as much as the Andrew Wyeth painting, The Milk Shed. She was transfixed by this beautiful work hanging at the Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts, in her hometown. To this day, she can still recall the quality of light passing through the layers of pigment. In Shea’s early twenties, she drove to Wyeth’s studio in Chadd’s Ford, PA. Her intention was to tell him how he had inspired her to become an artist, but ultimately felt too shy to knock on the door. Instead, she plucked a blade of grass from his lawn which Shea still has today. Jane strives to paint this light that she first saw in Andrew Wyeth’s painting when she was nine years old. Whether it is the old world shimmer of the Tuscan countryside, the brilliant spring greens of the South, or the incredible light of New Mexico - this is the light that Shea attempts to capture.