Shelley Wales
Medium: Painting & Drawing
Studio Location: 148 Centennial Parkway, Tsawwassen
Parking is available in the driveway, entrance is to the left.
Instagram: Shelley Wales (@49thnorthcreative) • Instagram photos and videos
Website: Shelley Wales Landscape Artist shelleywales.ca
Shelley Wales (@49thnorthcreative) • Instagram photos and videos
Artist Statement/Bio
While exploring the wilderness I paint I hike, scramble, bushwhack, get rained on, sometimes burnt and almost always eaten alive by bugs, all while trying to get to the places that call to me. Some of these places are beside lonely, sometimes forgotten roads or trails, others are so far away from signs of people that it is easy to forget that people exist. My paintings are of these special places and the stories they have to share.
Working primarily in watercolour and sometimes oil, my landscapes are based on photographs and plein air pieces I have done on location. Some of the pieces are impressions of a single moment. Others are visual montages of place and more reflective of our feelings and connections to the landscape than the actual landscape itself. Not all the moments painted are perfect or pretty, yet they are intentional and exist somewhere between fiction and reality, like a shared memory between old friends.
