'Marshmallow Squares' by Damian Showyin
Damian Showyin’s paintings are like abstracted windows, where oblong shapes of deep, layered colours seem to hold whispered secrets. He is a wonderful builder, in colour, constructing his intensely satisfying paintings from softly brushed blocks, stacks and windows...And they also hint at something bigger, about how things in any setting – a city, landscape or community — must accommodate each other to get along
Damian Showyin b. 1974
Damian was born and works in Sydney. With acrylic, oil pastel, chalk pastel and posca, mostly on paper, Damian has developed his own personal language; one of patterns and braided shapes. He delights in the teeming and tight harmony of the buildings, fences and gardens he inhabits and is surrounded by. Perhaps this is why his art resonates so well when installed in public, in places of ‘getting along’.
