Shawn Fields’ interest in drawing began early. Pursuing that interest, he received a BFA in illustration degree at the School of Visual Arts, studied anatomy at the Arts Students League in New York, and received an MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art. His work has been exhibited at ArtBasel Miami, Forbes Gallery NYC, Arcadia NYC, and is collected worldwide. Currently represented by Dowling Walsh Gallery in Rockland Maine, Shawn lives in Mill River, Massachusetts. He is the illustrator of Monument Maker: Daniel Chester French and the Lincoln Memorial (Tilbury House, 2019).