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Shawn Dulaney's style, a layered construction of abstracted color merging to form spacious landscapes, has been described by William Zimmer of the New York Times as belonging to "a very strong tradition, that of 19th-century Northern European Romanticism in which nature was seen as corresponding to human emotional states." He says of her work, "Ms. Dulaney makes it clear that her inner life is very much a part of each painting, and this alone distinguishes it from most abstraction...Shawn Dulaney is deliberately out for grandeur. but she is also out for intimacy. Her paintings take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them."

Her pieces are subtle; lush with color and a depth of detail that engages the imagination and conveys a weight of emotional connection to atmospheres and places. Her surfaces, as described by Dominick Lombardi-also of the New York Times, are "exquisitely painted", and "a pleasure to see". She achieves the same understated transcendence in all of her work; the large-scale acrylic landscapes and waterfall paintings, intimate frescoes or in her series of monotype prints.

Shawn Dulaney has worked as a painter for over two decades, exhibiting nationwide. Her paintings can be found in extensive public collections worldwide-the Hunterdon Museum of Art in New Jersey, the Trump International Hotel in New York, The Venetia Resort in Macan, China, as well as in the private collections of author Annie Proulx, actor Steve Buscemi, artist Jo Andres and musician Stuart Copeland. Her landscapes have also appeared in episodes of TV's Sex & the City, in Interview, a film directed by Steve Buscemi, and in It's Complicated, a film directed by Nancy Meyers. Her work has appeared in Art in America and H.C. & G. Hampton's Magazine, been featured in New American Paintings, and reviewed in the New York Times.

She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her favorite songwriter is Kane Dulaney Balser, and her favorite photographer is Luca Dean Balser.