A life-long art learner, Shelley has completed courses in photography, sculpture, life drawing and painting. She is a former music teacher and sings in a classical choir in Victoria, BC. She has been painting since 2018, and while the subject matter changes, her free flowing, intuitive, colourful style has remained a constant.

Shelley paints mostly in acrylic, but adds collage, pastel, and oil stick. She paints in the silence of her home studio with some of Victoria’s best coffee at hand. She is inspired by street art, nature, and simply beautiful things like the colour of a stormy sky or the droop of a tulip. She has painted fantastical creatures, melting polar mountains, and flowers just a bit beyond their prime. Lately she has been fascinated, and ‘drawn to’ the abstracted shapes formed by trees while she is out hiking with her dog, or even just gardening in her yard.

Since 2023, Shelley has been encouraged and delighted to be awarded three Juror’s Choice Awards for her landscape paintings at the SPAC Spring Shows.

Websites:

https://shelleyhordiyuk.com