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SHELTON ART | STUDIOS GALLERY

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 convenient time for a studio visit.

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UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2010 :

AGNES BUGERA GALLERY
Edmonton, Alberta
Monica Shelton - Solo Exhibition
"Landscapes of Inner Resonance"
September 2010
Details to Follow

SHELTON ART|STUDIOS GALLERY
OPEN STUDIOS - GALLERY EXHIBITION
Early November 2010
Details to Follow

PAST EXHIBITIONS:

SHELTON ART | STUDIOS GALLERY
OPEN STUDIOS - GALLERY EXHIBITION
March 28 - 29, 2009
A warm Thank You to all of you who
attended the show, it was a great happening in all ways.

SHELTON ART | STUDIOS GALLERY
YEARLY NOVEMBER EXHIBITION IN TORONTO
Monica Shelton and Barry Shelton
1987 - 2009
Toronto, Ontario

TORONTO ART EXPO 2008
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Monica Shelton & Barry Shelton March 6 - March 9, 2008
Toronto, Ontario

TORONTO ART EXPO 2007
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Monica Shelton & Barry Shelton
March 15 - 18, 2007
Toronto, Ontario

SHELTON ART | STUDIOS GALLERY
OPEN STUDIOS - GALLERY EXHIBITION
NOV. 3 & 4, 2007
As well as every year since 1990

AGNES BUGERA GALLERY
’For The Love of Art’ - Monica Shelton Group Exhibition
Feb 8 - Feb 22, 2007
Edmonton, Alberta

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 CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY:

VANCOUVER ART GALLERY - Art Rental and Sales Gallery.
Monica Shelton - Barry Shelton
Tel: 604 662 4716
www.artrentalandsalesvancouver.com

AGNES BUGERA GALLERY, Edmonton, Alberta - Monica Shelton www.agnesbugeragallery.com

SHELTON ART | STUDIOS GALLERY
West Vancouver. B.C.
www.sheltonart.com
hours by appointment please

As working artists we exhibit our work in Galleries, Art Fairs, as well as year round at our In Home Gallery and Studios in West Vancouver B.C.

For the past 35 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, Gallery Exhibitions and Art Fairs 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 to British Columbia and set up our studios and gallery in our home in West Vancouver. We continue to exhibit annually in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver.

Collections: We are represented in Corporate and Private Collections in Canada and throughout the World.

Web Site: www.sheltonart.com
Gallery|Studio Visits: By Appointment only

MONICA SHELTON

Monica Shelton has lived and worked as a visual artist for the last thirty-five years. She was born in Chile in 1949 and immigrated to Canada when she was 18. After many years as an Ontario based artist, Monica Shelton now works out of her Gallery/Studio/Home in West Vancouver, British Columbia.

Extensive travels throughout Asia, Europe, North America, South America, North Africa and the Middle East also contribute to Monica’s art today.

She paints in Acrylic on canvas as well as Mixed Media on paper and is a member of the CSPWC. Exhibiting regularly in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver, her paintings are represented in private and corporate collections in Canada and around the world.

MONICA SHELTON
ARTIST STATEMENT

’When I paint, I want to be alone in front of the canvas. Only in solitude do I find the strength to get out of my own way and paint unbridled.

I paint from inspiration, using my imagination, experiences and joys. I work with a format that is contemporary, gestural and personal. My hope is to help people discover their own story and more.

My imagery is grounded in the mysteries of the natural world and aims to expand vision and thoughts beyond the finite, thereby experiencing new insights into the nature of reality.

Making Art is my life and constant need, my inner guide and my joy.’

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.

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. In the "Reflection Series", the nature and presence of light and water is explored in its brilliant magnificence. 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.’

Agnes Bugera Gallery - Edmonton, Alberta   Monica Shelton - Represented by Agnes Bugera Gallery, Edmonton

Toronto Art Expo   Monica and Barry Shelton. Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Takes place in March on a yearly basis in Toronto, Ontario.

Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolour   Monica Shelton Member of the CSPWC since 1986