Morning Coffee and Existential Terror by Eli Shaw, Acrylic on Canvas tinged An encounter in the gap

An encounter in the gap

and began drawing and painting at an early age

she soon chooses painting as a mean to express her creativity through large figurative portraits

trance and dream states as a path to healing and I

Translating and Surpassing the Photo-Reference

Morning Coffee and Existential Terror by Eli Shaw, Acrylic on Canvas tinged An encounter in the gap15 x 30 March 8th, 2017 Artist Biography My name is Eli Shaw. Ive been creating art for 10 years. Im a disabled American veteran. Ive used my art in the past 3 years to heal and to explore mental illness from a very personal place. I served in the military for 5 years and deployed once. I have seen first hand how mental illness affects soldiers. My goal in my work is to bridge the gap between people with mental illness and people without. I want to