Allan Renshaw is a British artist specialising in contemporary painting. He does not adhere to a particular style but through a range of experimental and developmental approaches has produced a series of significant art works. Producing paintings in series has become an important aspect of his development as an artist. Allan is an instinctive colourist with an incredible ability to invent & match colours. The resulting compositions can be quite breath-taking. His paintings are rarely fully pre-conceived but largely result from an organic process. They appear to have a pure abstract quality but in reality they are highly influenced by the natural environment.

Allan predominantly paints on square panels, as for him the square is an important foundational motif which he employs as part of his symbolic language. This gives us a clue as to part of Allan’s agenda in producing paintings. One of the motives in his work is enabling an experience of integration and containment for himself and the viewer. This is particularly the case with the 'Matrix Mandala' paintings. He says that part of his interest is in enabling a visual dialogue between the viewer's experiences of integration and disintegration. These ideas have been progressed in his recent works; the ‘Parallel Series’.

The idea of using parallels as a visual language first emerged during a highly fruitful period in 2005 when Allan was working in a studio in the South of France. However his use of parallels to develop a series did not begin until 2007 when he was living by the Conwy River Estuary in North Wales. His experience of the estuary strongly influenced the series. It was the power of the naturally occurring parallel planes within the tidal movement of the estuary, framed by land, mountain and sky that influenced the development of this work.

Allan is primarily a painter but also has interests in installation, sculpture, photographic as well as digital art work.

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