Sean O'Shea is a contemporary visual artist based in Byron Bay, on the Far North Coast of NSW, Australia who is interested in uncovering issues around identity and belonging; exploring figures and textures that landscape the human condition. He approaches his compositions with the belief that his paintings are living objects. This means that what lies beneath the surface of the painting is of equal importance to him. From this base, he is able to project an image which invariably brings forth an emotional response.Sean is also interested in interpreting light, which is why so many of his paintings have a luminous quality about them, for he captures light in a masterly way. He is interested in how colour and tone affect the atmosphere and mood of a painting. He calls this the unseen rhythms, harmonies and light; the final relationship between the painted scene and the viewer. The first brush stroke is the beginning of an untold story and from there the possibilities for him are unlimited.