{"id":227,"date":"2019-08-16T11:43:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ajsdesigns.org.uk\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2026-03-10T23:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T23:19:46","slug":"the-artist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ajsdesigns.org.uk\/?page_id=227","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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AMANDA JANE SHEARS<\/p>\n\n\n

Amanda is a multi disciplinary artist. Her practice covers sculpture, painting, printmaking, site specific installation, performance dance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A Cornish artist based in Somerset.
She studied sculpture in Ciutadella, Menorca for four years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She has travelled extensively, lived in Barcelona for many years and is now settled in Somerset. You can find her in studio 3 at East Quay, Watchet or as part of the Hatch collective.<\/p>\n

\u2018The smell of wood as I chisel and rasp it into shapes and forms is potent and nostalgic. The form is always directed by the wood itself, the original sketch and maquette discarded. Stone, whatever its source, dictates the shapes that emerge. Covered in powder, exhausted from hammering stone or wood I am utterly contented and can lose myself for hours.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018I do not create what I see, I create what I feel.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n

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