Deftly rendered and ambitious in scale, Shayne Brantley’s paintings are fantastically intimate and subtly engaging. Brantley is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program including an Artist Residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine). Brantley currently resides in Galveston, Texas. Richly layered application of paint and resonant color palettes are deployed on metal, wood, canvas and paper. A marvelous play of representation and color, attenuated by texture and mapping an experience the viewer’s own imagining animates with the skill and ingenuity of the artist’s endeavor always within reach.