Timeless: New paintings by Norman Shaw

Norman Shaw’s work is intentionally hyper-romantic - a twenty-first century Caspar Friedrich - and like Friedrich, Turner and Constable who lived in a time of increasing industrialisation, Shaw looks to divine creation in search of what is timeless and uses it as a way to see through the artifice of civilization. Shaw’s work also draws from surrealism, psychedelia and music in his quest to see a truer world.

‘We are transported to the places of transformation where ancient archetypes are embodied in the land, empowering us to re-myth the land and re-dream the lost golden age, to re-live it and never forget, to see through the veils of illusion to the real world.’
Norman Shaw, 2026