What is the Why Behind the Art?
Shelley loves to embrace the beautiful chaos that is art. Whether a client’s home, a found object or a blank canvas, Shelley creates a unique and whimsical vibe in all that she crafts. Through transformative years, moments of deep struggle and an immense sense of gratitude, Shelley puts all of herself into every piece of work she creates.
Neon Collection
The neon collection has been so fun to make! Shelley created the neon image to go with her art and then collaborated with Ion Art in Austin, Texas to make and professionally install the neon. The “neon only” pictures are the true colors of the neon when it is lit. Please contact Shelley with any questions or for purchasing. Thank you!
Oh Yeah! Be Free
$5450
30” X 40”
Circa 2024
Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel. Acrylic, gold leaf, journal pages, wood, encaustic, cut wallpaper and crocheted flowers from Peru.
Art message: Let yourself be free to be yourself. This is a blessing of gentleness and freedom to be you. Decide today who you will be.
Artist message: Humanity is so complex. Boil is down to being simpler. Love yourself. Let yourself explore your creative spirit and embrace your uniqueness. The power starts with you and letting go of thinking you need to “do life” a certain way. You don’t! You get to choose who you are!
Be You (the world can handle it)
NFS /Collection of Artist
30” X 40”
Circa 2023
Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel. Acrylic, gold leaf, vintage wallpaper, Gucci wallpaper, encaustic, Ironman wrist band from artist’s Hawaii race, and painted wood flowers.
Art message: Be You. The world can handle it.
Artist message: I hated this piece in its first life. Originally a self-portrait, I cringed and wanted to vomit whenever I saw it hanging on my wall. So, I stashed it under the stairs in a closet. In its remake, I did a photo transfer of a wolf I’d drawn in my thirties over the face. Laden with wolf dreams in my younger years, I thought she wanted to destroy me, but now I know that the wolf is a teacher showing me who I really am.
Be Proud (of Doing it Your Own Way)
$5450
30” X 40” Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel
Circa 2024
Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel. Acrylic, gold leaf, wallpaper, blue fabric, encaustic, and painted wood flowers.
Art message: This is a blessing of vision. You trust your intuition; you know how to plan for your future. Everything works for you. All the plans are perfect, you go forward trusting your own vision.
Artist message: My daughter was dropping me off at the Denver airport. I stepped out of the car and there was a bottlecap with words, face up, at my feet. Before I could read it, I knew the message was for me.
“Be Proud of doing it your own way.” -Shelley’s bottlecap
The green lizard was in my dream. She was on the other side of the fence in the backyard, but I could see her through the slats. She represents prosperity and abundance.
Everything in life that we think is out of reach: money, love, success, happiness, whatever seems unattainable, isn’t unattainable. It’s just over the fence. All we need to do is unlatch the gate and let it in.
Mirabelle the blue-antlered butterfly
$5450
30 X 40” Neon Installation on Mixed Media panel
Circa 2024
Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel. Acrylic, wallpaper.
Art message: She just stopped thinking about what she couldn’t do and began to do what she loved.
Artist message: Why do we waste so much time doubting ourselves, hating ourselves and beating ourselves up? Why do we think others have life figured out? They don’t. Mirabelle reminds you to trust your inner self. She reminds you that you already know what to do and who you are. Listen within and do what makes you happy! You already have what it takes to succeed. You are talented, beautiful, smart, resilient and loveable. Just exist. Do what you love and what you love will find you.
White Wings (Can you embrace all of it?)
$5450
30” X 40”
Circa 2024
Neon Installation on Mixed Media Panel. Acrylic, gold leaf, vintage wallpaper, wood panels, vintage fabric, wallpaper HOT label, vintage sheet music, journal pages.
Art messages:
You will be surrounded with beauty
Decide today who you will be
Live Boldly
Do what you love
Be Free
Be Lionhearted
Artist message: Can I embrace all of life? Everything? The bad as well as the good? The mistakes and screw-ups? Can they all be a part of me?
A perfectionist doesn’t mean you do things right all the time, it means you think you should do things right all the time. This is a problem.
My therapist said, “Shelley, no one can be perfect 100% of the time, would you be okay with 85%? Can I embrace all and accept my life as one giant gift.
I had a dream that I won a pair of white glittery wings and then I found a pair in a field while I was sipping coffee. Life is full of surprises. Embrace all of them.