Shannon Morris Lawson is a Bay Area artist & art educator who lives in San Francisco.
As an artist, I am a passenger as I drift through my stream of consciousness. Ideas come together in bursts, sometimes united through narrative. My work is inspired by the images that catch my eye. I use my camera to capture impressions and then I use these to weave together a new context.
The process is what drives my art, whether mixing colors or experimenting with how materials interact, it is the discovery that I enjoy.
My latest obsession is cut paper. To start from a solid field and gradually extract openings, revealing an image, a balance of negative and positive shapes. It is here that I arrive at my most confident lines. Using Adobe Photoshop, a second obsession, I then digitally color each piece. Much of my art begins with cut paper as a base, or an intaglio print, as they allow for more fluid experimentation, because to the original, I can always return.