Unfolding

Shear’s recent works are informed by her studies of energy medicine, specifically Intuition Medicine® and the universal healing energies of gold, rose gold and copper.  Her new series of collages, Unfolding, makes the invisible visible. She uses metallic fabric to illuminate the healing energies she works with in Intuition Medicine®. Shear has been using fabric in her work for its intrinsic beauty, connection to the body and deep roots in painting and art history. To inform her compositions, Shear looks to sacred geometry, choosing patterns and symbols that emphasize our connection with each other and the movement of energy.

Shear utilizes collage as a starting point for her paintings as well, which are a layering of abstract and representation, depiction and imbedded emotions, trace and form. The paintings reference experiences - bodily and spiritual - with loss and love. She starts by creating collages of photographs of simple objects with symbolic significance -- her bedspread, roses, tissue paper from her baby shower. Shear writes, “Fully in the moment, I strive to allow my expression and all its contradictions to exist without judgment. In so doing, I get closer to an authentic and unedited representation of these universal and deeply personal symbols and experiences."