On a recent episode of Double Wolf TV, Wayne Wilson spoke to fine artist Sean Cheetham about his Western Goth painting “There in the ground, my buried heart” and “All of our vows, in death did part” (featuring Mather Louth and Chopper Franklin of the Heathen Apostles), as well as his other oil paintings “Coach Robbers”, “Let It Burn”, and “Game Over”. They also spoke about the upcoming year and then take a look at some of his work, showing a few of Sean’s oil paintings as well as the work he has done on knives.
Sean Cheetham was born in 1977 in San Francisco, studied at the College of San Mateo, in California, and earned a B.F.A. degree with honors from Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, California. His paintings have been included in numerous significant exhibitions internationally including the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has a devoted following of collectors and art students that are inspired by his work and distinctive technique. Primarily a figurative painter, Sean is known for his technical prowess in achieving accuracy and harmony in his alla prima paintings which he credits to a deep understanding of drawing and his own system of mixing colors which he uses adeptly to govern shadows, midtones and highlights. In addition to having an exceptional ability to understand, draw, and paint the human form, Cheetham’s selection of subjects typically in familiar urban scenes contributes a truthful and often raw spirit that makes his work distinctive and a contemporary testimony of our time.
