Growing up on Canada’s West Coast, Shelley has had a life-long love affair with the mountains and ocean. This has led to a love of exploring and painting some of the more remote corners of western Canada’s stunning wilderness.
She received her BFA and BDes (Honours) from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in the late 90’s. It was here that she was first introduced to and became enamoured with watercolour and landscape painting, which is still her medium and subject of choice today.
Once a year she packs herself into her truck, for a self-directed artist residency on wheels, where she lives and paints on a month long road trip. The rest of the year she can be found practicing her art in her hometown of Tsawwassen, BC with her husband, son and two dogs… that is, if she isn’t off wandering in the coast mountains somewhere, paint brush in hand.
