Keith Scanlon - Commercial Illustrator and Artist, Port Douglas, Australia

Description: Keith Scanlon born in South Wales, UK has since lived and worked in several countries and now resides permanently in Australia. He has travelled extensively, continually drawn to islands and exotic locations where the warm sun bleaches the beach and the daily treasures thrown upon it; providing both the inspiration and the materials for the collages. Precious tactile and wondrous things: shells, driftwood, seedpods, coral and glass. This artist attributes much of the beauty of such objects as being beyond mere aesthetics. A piece of wood, once discarded as useless, becomes etched by sand, sea and tides. Washed ashore, remoulded with a different story; the piece is once again made useful, either as the frame or as the focus of the art, but forever marked by the ocean.