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Shelton Art | Shelton, Monica and Barry
Studios - Gallery  |
3540 Marine Drive
West Vancouver
British Columbia, Canada
V7V 1N4
Phone Number: 604 922 5356
Email Address: sheltonart@shaw.ca
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Shows: |
| | UPCOMING EXHIBITION
SHELTON ART|STUDIOS GALLERY
OPEN HOUSE GALLERY EXHIBITION
Tentative Dates:
Saturday October 25, 2008
Sunday October 26, 2008
More Details to be posted later
To get on our MAILING LIST please send us an e mail with either your mailing address, e mail, or both.
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR YOU MAY VIEW OUR ART WORK AT OUR IN HOME GALLERY AND STUDIOS.
Hours are by appointment. Just give us a call at 604 922 5356 or e mail sheltonart@shaw.ca and we will be glad to make a time convenient for you to come by for a studio visit and see our paintings.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
We have just returned from:
TORONTO ART EXPO 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Booth # N-270
March 6 - March 9, 2008
www.torontoartexpo.com
ONE OF A KIND SHOW
Nov.23 - Dec 2, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
SHELTON ART|STUDIOS GALLERY
OPEN HOUSE GALLERY EXHIBITION
NOV. 3 & 4, 2007
A warm Thank You to all of you who
attended the show, it was a great happening
in all ways.
TORONTO ART EXPO 2007
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Monica Shelton & Barry Shelton
March 15 - 18, 2007
Toronto, Ontario
AGNES BUGERA GALLERY
’For The Love of Art’ - Monica Shelton Group Exhibition
Feb 8 - Feb 22, 2007
Edmonton, Alberta
Shelton Art|Studios Gallery
Annual Open House May 2006
Winsor Gallery - ’WITNESS’ Group Show, Barry Shelton, March 28 - April 23, 2006.
Ferry Building Gallery - ’WOMAN’ March 7 - March 26, 2006. Monica Shelton was part of this group exhibition in celebration of International Women’s Day.
OUR WORK IS REPRESENTED BY:
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY - Art Rental and Sales Gallery.
Monica Shelton - Barry Shelton
Tel: 604 662 4716
www.artrentalandsalesvancouver.com
WINSOR GALLERY, Vancouver, BC - Barry Shelton
www.winsorgallery.com
AGNES BUGERA GALLERY, Edmonton, Alberta - Monica Shelton
www.agnesbugeragallery.com
As working artists we exhibit our work in Galleries, Art Fairs and In Home Studios|Gallery Exhibitions. |
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Biography: |
| | MONICA SHELTON | BARRY SHELTON
For the past 33 years we have lived, worked and often exhibited together as two visual artists who happen to be married. Painting has been and is our work and creative expression that comes from a wondrous balancing act of nature, relationship, children, community, travel, spirit and more.
Bringing art and people together is an important aspect for us, for it is essential in the feeling and knowing of human wholeness. We honour the triangular relationship between the viewer, the painting and the artist affirming the exchange in the long tradition of the Artist Atelier. In this context, our years of annual Open Studios and Gallery Exhibitions present a welcome opportunity to reaffirm this special connection with the public as points of collective celebration and access to our creative spaces, processes, lives and art work.
From extensive journeys throughout South Asia, Far East, Tibet, Indonesia, Europe, North America, South America, North Africa and the Middle East, artistic exposure and years of internal wanderings, our life experiences have been instrumental in our self evolvement as artists and form a rich wellspring for our present creative explorations and expressions. After many years as Ontario based artists, in 1987 we moved with our two children, Corey and Rhea, to British Columbia and set up our studios and gallery in our home in West Vancouver. We continue to exhibit annually in Toronto and Vancouver.
MONICA SHELTON - Born in Chile in 1949 and immigrated on my own to Canada in 1967. I paint with acrylic on canvas and mixed media on paper. Member of the CSPWC since 1986. Silence and experience are my teachers. Making Art is my life and constant need, my inner guide, my joy and my service.
BARRY SHELTON - Born in Toronto, Ontario in 1949, I have degrees from Queens and University of Toronto. For decades I have enjoyed painting with acrylic on canvas, I love my choice of media and path of life.
Collections: We are represented in Corporate and Private Collections in Canada and throughout the World. |
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Contact Information: |
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Mailing Address: 3540 Marine Dr.
West Vancouver, B.C.
Canada, V7V 1N4
Phone: 604 922 5356
Web Site: www.sheltonart.com
Gallery|Studio Visits: By Appointment only |
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Artist's Statement: |
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MONICA SHELTON
ARTIST STATEMENT
The act of painting has shown me that the creation of art has an existence of its own, connected to the influence of the universal magic. Painting helps me find my way through the chaos of choices, obstacles and dualities into that which lives 'between the lines'.
The need to know solitude, to give myself to my work and to a way of life, gives me inspiration and strength to remember the essential and get out of my own way.
I paint from the inside out, using my imagination, dreams, joys and experiences, with simplification and economy of means, working with a format that is contemporary, gestural and personal. My aim is to give people an opportunity to glimpse their connection with the greater whole, let them discover their own story in the painting that is a mirror of the soul.
My imagery is grounded in the natural world and aims to expand feelings and thoughts beyond the finite into that which simply is, thereby experiencing new insights into the nature of reality.
BARRY SHELTON
ARTIST STATEMENT
My paintings are poetic maps of the human journey - of awakening - that utilize symbols and metaphor, abstraction and realism to embody and celebrate beauty in both its aspects of light and shadow. Contemporary images for the soul that can touch the heart and move the mind
Constantly I sense and see a silent visual language before thought - a mystical unifying inner reality of simplicity and oneness, joy and light that underlies the natural world around me.
In the "Individual Tree" series, the tree becomes the natural link in cosmic integration - rooted to the earth and reaching towards the heavens. Each has a particular quality or energy flowing through it. My abstracted pieces aim to portray sacred geometry of concepts in all their glorious and mysterious beauty.
Words on ART are hindsight, images on ART are foresight. It is the creative process and the next painting that is of essential importance. |
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Price Range: |
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