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Journey

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Artist Statement

“I am a Canadian Maritime artist working across landscape, figurative, and abstract work, drawn both to the memory of place and the emotional residue that lingers after a moment has passed.

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My work holds the juxtaposition of the world’s beauty alongside my own formative experiences of that same world not always being safe. In this light, I choose to see creativity and goodness as an act of rebellion and healing.

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Nature and figures are painted as dynamic, alive, and emotionally charged. Gold moves through the work as an act of repair; a way of acknowledging fracture without concealing it. Mended seams left visible, these marks hold both what was broken and what has since been restored.”

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~Shane Drever

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Artist Bio

Shane grew up in a large family in a small Saskatchewan farming community, with no TV, no radio, and not much in the way of modern distraction. What he had was drawing, and that turned out to be enough. Art became the thing he kept returning to, and eventually the thing that defined him.

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He traded the prairies for Ontario, then Ontario for the East Coast, and is now based in Fredericton on the unceded territory of the Wolastoqiyik people. His landscapes draw from the broader Maritime coastline: the Hopewell Rocks, fishing villages in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, lighthouses in PEI. Alongside this, he works in figurative painting, abstract composition, and large-scale public murals. Commissioned mural work spans civic, corporate, and community contexts, including projects for Google, TD Bank, and Communitech, as well as the award-winning public mural “Farms to Families” in Simcoe, Ontario.

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Years in creative leadership and design have brought a certain discipline and structural thinking to his fine art practice. He is recently expanded his practice through the CATAPULT program with ArtsLinkNB.

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When not painting, he finds quiet focus building Lego, which is, it turns out, an unexpectedly effective counterbalance to life in the studio.

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Shane with his older sisters, younger brothers, and his mom.

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Artist CV

​Artistic Practice

Independent visual artist with over 10 years of sustained professional practice. Working in oil painting across landscape, figurative, and abstract modes, with an emphasis on emotional resonance, memory of place, and the human condition. Public mural work spans corporate, civic, and community contexts across Canada. Shane's practice is rooted in the juxtaposition of beauty and adversity; brokenness and repair.​​

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Public Work

  • 2026 SUSSEX MURAL CALL | Public mural, Sussex, NB

  • 2026 SOBEYS TILLSONBURG | Store Community Murals, Tillsonburg, ON

  • 2026 SOBEYS SOUTH PELHAM | Store Community Murals, Welland, ON

  • 2026 SOBEYS KINCARDINE | Store Community Murals, Kincardine, ON

  • 2025 AYR FOODLAND | Store Community Murals, Ayr, ON

  • 2024 SOBEYS OXFORD + WONDERLAND | Store Community Murals, London, ON

  • 2024 FARMS TO FAMILIES | Public mural, Simcoe, ON

  • 2023 HISTORICAL JARVIS | Public mural, Jarvis, ON

  • 2019 THE FATHOMS | Corporate mural, Galt Collective, Cambridge, ON

  • 2018 STEAMPUNK COMMUNITECH | Corporate mural, Communitech, Waterloo, ON

  • 2017 PATHS IN PROGRESS | Corporate mural, TD, Waterloo, ON

  • 2014 GOOGLE GOODS | Corporate mural, Google, Waterloo, ON

  • 2011 ANDROIDS! | Corporate mural , Google, Waterloo, ON

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Exhibitions

  • 2022 INTERSTELLAR ART GALLERY | International Figurative Exhibition, New Delhi, India

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Residencies

  • 2026 FREDERICTON ARTS ALILIANCE| Picaroons, Fredericton, NB​​

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Education & Professional Development

  • 2026 CATAPULT | Artist Talk | ArtsLinkNB

  • 2026 CATAPULT | Professional Development Program | ArtsLinkNB

  • 2001-03 CLASSICAL ANIMATION | Sheridan College | Oakville, ON

  • 2000-01 ART FUNDAMENTALS | Sheridan College | Oakville, ON

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Awards And Accolades

  • 2026 ST MARTINS PLIEN AIR FESTIVAL | Second Place | Juried Event

  • 2024 FARMS TO FAMILIES | Public Mural | Community Award

  • 2014 COVENENT AWARDS | Nominated - Album Artwork of the Year | Trevor Dick Band

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Selected Projects

  • 2021 BEEN A MINUTE ALBUM | Animated visualizer series for Hunter Brothers full album release — Watch Here

  • 2016 LUNATIC | Animated cutscenes, award winning documentary — LUNATIC Website

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