She has been an active member in the artistic community founding Elm City Artists Gallery in New Haven CT. She was Studio Manager and Art Education Supervisor for Basic Inquiry, a drawing studio in Vancouver Canada. As a director of AlterNation.ca, she currently specializes in applying arts and culture into community development. |
| Recently her paintings and mixed media work have been shown at New Haven Paint and Clay Club/John Slade Ely House, Society of Creative Arts in Newtown CT., 621 Gallery, Railroad Square in Tallahassee FL. |
| She has been represented by Westville Gallery in New Haven, CT., The Working Artists Studio in New London CT., the Smith Gallery in Sacramento, CA |
| Of her work she says:
After years of figurative and abstract work, I have been intrigued by the wonderful immediacy of plein-air painting. Plein-air is a door through which I use color, light and texture to explore myth and imagination in my oils and mixed media. |
| Shelly’s work is presently exhibited at the SeaSide Gallery in La Conner, Washington and the Elm City Artists Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. |
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About
Shelly has recently returned to the West Coast after an absence of seven years.