Shane started drawing and painting at school, although went on to study French, Sociology and Law at University. Since graduating he has mainly worked part-time to allow himself the time to develop his painting. After living in France and Germany for several years, he returned to the town of his birth, Hythe, and started to paint scenes from the local area. By 2005, the interest in his work was such that it made sense to quit his job as a lecturer at Reading University and to paint full-time, opening a gallery in Folkestone. Nearly all of his work in recent years is done with thick oil paint applied with a palette knife on canvas.

Now 33 with seven-year-old daughter Olive, Shane is committed to producing work of his immediate surroundings and beyond so that people can make connections between places they are familiar with and contemporary painting. He is not interested in convoluting his work with complicated concepts and statements and hopes that his paintings evoke an atmosphere that the viewer can relate to.