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An abstract painting featuring three colourful, radiating starburst shapes in red, green and blue across the top. Below, jagged geometric shards and a thick brown diagonal beam overlap a smaller, framed composition of swirling patterns.

Treat your eyeballs to a double shot of Eric Shaw's awesome paintings

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Date
2 November 2012

Maybe it’s the ludicrous amount of sugar in my system combined with the fact it’s Friday, but these images by Eric Shaw just seem to keep getting better the more I look at them. Let your pupils dilate over his ability to make painted collages so bright and crisp, using a palette so stimulating it makes you want to go and make some new friends. To be able to put across the same feeling as being in some sort of time machine with no idea which era you’re headed towards, just with paintings, is kind of a big deal. Happy Friday Eric, and thank you for your genius!

A collage of abstract shapes and patterns over a background of horizontal green and blue stripes. A pink diagonal bar and a blue vertical strip overlap a central figure with a red eye and a black-and-white spiral.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

A collage of bold, colourful shapes and textures. A curved blue strip arcs across the centre, layered over a black and white optical pattern and torn pieces of paper.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

A collage of a simple house shape made from colourful strips of paper. The house sits above a black and white spiral of fine, radiating lines.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

An abstract painting featuring three colourful, radiating starburst shapes in blue, green and orange. Below them, a series of geometric shards and a thick brown diagonal beam overlap a smaller, framed composition of fragmented figures.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

A black and white illustration of a radial burst. Countless thin white lines explode outwards from a central point against a black background.
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Eric Shaw:Untitled

A vibrant, abstract painting featuring a chaotic arrangement of bold colours and fragmented shapes. Stylised figures and geometric patterns are scattered across the composition, including a black and white spiral and a checkered form.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

An abstract collage featuring a large square of black and white radiating lines. A yellow diagonal strip cuts across the bottom half, layered over fragmented, colourful shapes on a pink background.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

An abstract painting featuring a central red vertical column topped with a circular, starburst pattern. Geometric shapes in yellow, blue and pink overlap across the canvas, creating a fragmented, figure-like composition.
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Eric Shaw: Untitled

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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