George Shaw: Suburban City Art

British artist George Shaw paints scenes from the Coventry housing estate where he grew up:

I have my territory that I revisit looking for clues to I’m not sure what. I might pass a certain place a hundred times and then, one day, something about it catches my eye. I take a few photographs, usually bad ones, then print them and toss them aside for a while until I find one particular image is nagging away at me.

I love the realism of these paintings, but they also have a glow that makes them otherworldly. Maybe it’s because Shaw only uses Humbrol paint, which is more usually used for model kits.