Charles Eugene Shannon, Charles Shannon, American Artist

Most of my life has been lived in the South and, since I began to draw and paint seriously in the thirties, its’ people, places and things have  inspired my work.  All along, however, at the heart of my efforts to paint “the South,” has been the struggle to develop the formal means appropriate to the expression of my ideas. My dream has been to make paintings that would not only be statements about my subject matter, but paintings that would stand on their own as painting – incorporating shape, color, rhythm and subject into a whole that would somehow contain my deepest feelings about existence.

 Charles Shannon

Ca. 1980’s