John Shinnors, (b.1950)
LOT'S WIFE STUDY, 1980
Oil on canvas laid on board
h:24 w:32in.
Private collection
In the Bible, Lot's wife is a figure first mentioned in Genesis. The story of Lot's wife begins in Genesis 19 after two angels arrived in Sodom at eventide and were invited to spend the night at Lot's home. The Men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and prompted Lot to offer up these Men/Angels; instead, Lot offered up his two daughters but they refused. As dawn was breaking, Lot's visiting angels urged him to get his family and flee, so as to avoid being caught in the impending disaster for the iniquity of the city. The command was given, "Flee for your life! Do not look behind you, nor stop anywhere in the Plain; flee to the hills, lest you be swept away.":465 While fleeing, Lot's wife turned to look back, and was turned into a pillar of salt. More on Lot's wife
Born in Limerick in 1950, John Shinnors studied for a short time at Limerick School of Art and Design under Jack Donovan before leaving the confines of conventional education to pursue his own vision of artistic creativity. His paintings tend to combine the figurative and abstract at once, with coloured or black and white geometric shapes and repetition of form featuring strongly in his work. This unique style and treatment of subject matter lend well to Shinnors’ favoured motifs which include lighthouses, scarecrows, clowns and indigenous wildlife such as cows, crows and rabbits. More on John Shinnors
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