HUGE NEWS in 2023!

We’ve started production on a TV series! Not a tv show for Patreon or Youtube, but a real TV series! It’s a show where I follow local artists around and have conversations with them about their life. Kind of like Anthony Bourdain but instead of food and travel, it’s about art and artists. We’re focusing on Hawaiian and Hawaii diaspora artists primarily, and minority artists who live and work here. It’s been exhilarating but exhausting! We’re just in the early stages but I’m starting to build a Patreon page so we can fund our lunches and time while we shoot this pre-production “proof of concept” work for free.

We would love your support if you believe in what we’re doing! You can join for as little as $1 to see all our posts, $10 if you’d like a glow in the dark sticker of our logo (in process), or $25 if you would like producer credit on the show! Thank you for supporting the arts!

And here’s all my painting stuff for the last (almost) 20 years!

My artwork featured on the cover of the October/November 2016 issue of Professional Artist magazine.

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Light Reactive Paintings

I'm a mixed-media artist exploring circles and Thin Spaces, where science and spirituality blur into one. 

I use Light as a medium, along with acrylic, sand, sea salt, earth pigments, crushed glass, charcoal, wax, and ink. Each painting is meditative, and changes appearance throughout the day, season, and year. My work is phosphorescent and will glow for over 12 hours every night.

Why circles? Atoms, molecules, planets and stars, the cycles of time, and the universe itself all exist within a circle, radiating outward, with no beginning or end. Every circle is unique and can be seen as the fingerprint of the artist who created it.

I live and work in Maui, Hawaii.

Support my art and work through Patreon! I show my behind-the scenes, in process work, and also write private personal diaries each week!

Or purchase my art! You can buy original paintings, prints, stickers, and other artsy odds and ends. I appreciate my collectors so much! Thank you for supporting my work for almost 20 years!

I am inspired by stars, sunsets, tropical beaches, humidity, coloring books, crayons, glo-worms and lite-brites, the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, Jules Verne, The Science Channel, geology, ancient technology and civilizations, astronomy, sacred geometry, spirituality, stained glass windows, sea glass, telescopes, down-tempo music, wisdom, rainbows, fireflies, water and light.

 Here's a glimpse into the last art show I hosted before finding Patreon:

Download Hang w/ and follow w/ShaylaMaddox - http://www.hangwith.me/ShaylaMaddox

 Here I am on IntoConnection, an international show based in Holland, connecting vloggers around the world:

Here's some boring, official, old-school stuff in case you were super interested. ;)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

Ongoing - What Ales You - 2022-2023 - Kihei, Maui

A Light in the Dark - 4 Elements Gallery - 2013 - Los Angeles, CA

Studio C - 2012 - Los Angeles, CA

Studio C - 2011 - Los Angeles, CA

The Rebel Unit - 2010 - Santa Ana, CA

William Meire Gallery - 2009 - Laguna Beach, CA

Townley Fine Art - 2007 - Laguna Beach, CA

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

Twitter Art Exhibit - Exhale Unlimited Gallery - 2013 - Los Angeles, CA

4 Elements Gallery - 2012 - Los Angeles, CA

The Rebel Unit - 2010 - Orange County, CA

The Happening Gallery - 2010 - Santa Monica, CA

Buena Park City Hall - 2008 - Orange County, CA

Immersion Art Festival - 2006 - Orange County, CA

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PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION:

The Rising Sun - 2005 - Orange County, CA

IMMERSION:

Creative Director 2003-2007

Organized weekly, monthly, and seasonal events with an artistic and cultural emphasis for large audiences. - Capo Beach, CA