Born in l964 in Manchester, New Hampshire while his father was stationed in the Air Force, his family moved to Tennessee before he was a year old, where he grew up and graduated from high school. Shortly after graduation, he married his high school sweetheart, Nancy, and began managing a series of shoe stores being transferred from Louisiana to Ohio to Wisconsin and a lot of cities in between. After twenty-one years, he decided to call it quits on the constant moving and moved his wife and three children back home to Tennessee. Shane’s father was a nationally-known carver who had died a few years before their move home and he had collected and sold antiques so it was only natural for Shane to have a love for the same. Shane sold antiques for a while and began to carve to pass the time between customers. His wife returned to school and achieved a life long dream to become a nurse while Shane became a full time artist. "I guess I found what I was meant to do. My work is flavored with my love of Early American antiques and my life really. I write on many pieces about my life, hopes, dreams, rants as well as people I know. I have found a way of living my life through my art." Plagued by severe arthritis called ankylosing-spondylosis, he was bedridden for a time but now with a new medication and with his creative juices flowing, he is able to walk again. "I keep a positive attitude and have learned the secret of life is enjoying the passing of time. " He first started writing on his art when he was frustrated about a situation and impulsively began writing all over one of his works of art. "I don’t know why and I can’t explain other than to say I am driven to do this art. I don’t have any family left other than my wife and kids. For me, the art is my family. Every time I sell a piece it is really a little piece of me. I have times when I can’t work due to my arthritis but when I can work it is twenty-four seven. I love the blues and listen to the blues as I work. I have so much fun creating my art. My only fear is it will end too soon." His work in in the permanent collection of several museums including the Milwaukee Museum of Art, the Mennello Folk Art Museum and the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. It has also been included in exhibitions at the American Visionary Museum.