A dose of comfort through art.
Art as Medicine
Tiny, healing artwork that needs no walls: you can keep it in your pocket.
Designed with you in mind to be your portal to a place of calm:
Vast abstract fresco paintings help you enter a fascination state, as you rest your gaze and explore them, perhaps looking for the familiar… pareidolia:
“Using My Voice”, 2016, 48” x 96” Plaster Fresco on Wood Panel
Recurring themes in these modern fresco paintings are signal fires and search & rescue.
Their many layers of plaster, a palimpsest, tell a story- perhaps one as deep as yours.
Come on a journey with Shelley, of calm, of safe, of rescue.
There are beautiful ways to have conversations about mental health.
When you’re not ready to talk, we’ve found that paint is better than words. Visit the studio to try it for yourself.
Rescue Me Collection
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Public Art Exhibitions
Displaying thought-provoking art in a space is a way to communicate your values.
It opens conversations and gives opportunities for connection with others, and even connection within ourselves.
“Ashes for Medicine” Redeemer Gallery, 2024
“Exploring Care” Campbell River Art Gallery, 2021
Healing Through the Language of Art
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Some things viewers are saying about Shelley’s work…
What a pleasure it was to see Shelley’s work and to meet her. Her art is so relevant and deeply impactful in a beautiful way. The pieces that reference destruction and restoration touch on experiences that probably all of us go through but often cannot articulate. Her art gives voice to those experiences of brokenness and renewal. It is incredibly hopeful yet not at all naive.
-AnnaLiisa Gison, AdvDip, B.A., M.A. Art History Instructor
2023
“I had the privilege of seeing one of your gorgeous paintings when I was on my way to a doctor's appointment at St. Boniface Hospital in the clinic area. Your painting was so calming.....and peaceful, and somehow reassuring all at the same time....and as it turned out I had good news at my doctor’s appointment. Thank you for sharing your art with the world”
– S.J,
2020
