Shelley Wales
Watercolour & Oil
Working primarily in watercolour and oil, I paint and collage the Pacific Northwest’s stunning wilderness and urban green spaces. My paintings explore the idea that landscape and our recollections of it are not one thing but are instead a collection of small, sometimes seemingly insignificant, things that we experience and interact with as we move through it. Candid moments of being that are quilted together in our mind and form our memory of place when we close our eyes and remember.
Biography
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 dog… that is, if she isn’t off wandering in the coast mountains somewhere, paint brush in hand.
www.shelleywales.ca
