Sean Keating is an award-winning painter living in southern Connecticut.
Sean currently balances his time between painting and designing gardens (for over two decades the owner of TLC Lawn & Landscaping Service). He is drawn to the spontaneity of watercolor, although he also works in oils and acrylics.
"I am most interested in painting people," says Keating of his choice in subject matter. "There is something vital and accessible to everyone in the human form. If there is truth in it, we respond because we recognize ourselves."
Most of Sean’s childhood was spent in England while his father, actor Charles Keating, performed in a host of British stage and film productions. Sean and his brother began a cottage pottery in Warwickshire, and he has included writing, music and world travel in his pursuits since returning to the United States. Family collaborations also include various music ventures, as well as stage productions and directorial credits across the country. Composer and singer Mary Keating, his mother, is the author of Songstories – a collection of new music for children.
Sean Keating’s work has found a home in numerous private and corporate collections. He has enjoyed workshops with Charles Reid, Christopher Schink and William ‘Skip’ Lawrence and continues to study with Phyllis Rutigliano, to whom he offers warm thanks for her invaluable guidance and support.
Artist’s Statement:
“Perhaps as a side-effect of our enthusiastic pursuit of individuality, it seems we are inclined to perceive our journey through life as solitary and unique, increasingly disconnected from our environment and the rest of humanity. I think it is the artist’s task to illuminate the common truths of our existence, reminding us that the very same joys, fears, desires, tragedies, and hopes are shared by us all.
My hope is that the viewer recognizes something of his own experience in my work. Ideally, he will take away some element that inspires him to renew his own search for the truth.
A painter must look into a thing, divine its essence, reshape the familiar and present it so that we can look at the world with fresh eyes. The act of painting is part alchemy, part trickery, but most of all it is about looking… looking with complete honesty and with all of our being.”
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