Patrick Shane Wilson is a lifelong creative professional originally from The Muscle Shoals Area in Alabama. His mother was a popular art teacher who owned Spanish Oaks Gallery & School of Art. Young Shane’s own art career started early at age 11 when he won first place in the national “What’s Your Drawing Power?” contest sponsored by NBC Studios.
He later attended film school at State University of New York at Purchase. Today Shane is an award-winning video producer based in Little Rock, Arkansas. He is currently Artist-in-Residence at the Historic Malco Theatre in Hot Springs, where his solo exhibit “Past is Prologue” premiered this past summer.
Shane’s new series of stylish gouache portraits evokes the mystery and romance of a bygone era. His technique involves large hand-drawn images carefully painted in velvety gouache on premium illustration board. Inspired by silent film stars and art deco glamour, Shane describes his dramatic paintings as “bittersweet stories of lost love and dashed hope — of faded memories and our desire to recapture them, if only for a moment.”
