Collection: Shelley Mansel

Shelley Mansel has been painting the landscape for over 20 years. She attended UCFV in British Columbia for 2 years in the art diploma program, and continued her studies with 3 years in the BFA program at NSCADU in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Mansel has shown in solo, two person, and group exhibitions in Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Whistler and Maine throughout her professional art career. Mansel's works have been reviewed in print and online, and her work has been published in House & Home magazine and on HGTV. She has self published two books and is included in the publication, "from Land and Sea: Nova Scotia's Contemporary Landscape Artists". Shelley was chosen as a marquee artist for CBC's Sharing the View calendar 2012, and in 2021 was a spotlight artist in The Globe and Mail/Aventura Visa Beauty of Travel Series.

Mansel's work are held in private collections in Canada, Germany, USA, France and in permanent collections including St Mary's University Halifax and UBC Vancouver. She has received three NS Creation Grants and a Presentation Grant and has been part of the selection committee for the Nova Scotia Culture Division/Grants to Individuals Program. She was the inaugural Artist-in-Residence at the Annex Arts residency in Castine, Maine and has returned several times as a visiting artist to the program.

She currently lives and works in her home studio in rural Nova Scotia.

Artist Statement:

Shelley Mansel's artistic career has been devoted almost exclusively to painting the landscape. She has portrayed many sub-themes within the landscape construct such as the rural/pastoral, industrial, aerial, underwater, and fire, and most recently has explored water ripples and smoke plumes.

Her formal strengths with regard to draftsmanship, colour, composition and luminosity support her ability to restrain the landscape to its most elemental forms. Her paintings demonstrate a timeless and universal quality, yet the beauty of each image also alludes to the inherent epheremal nature of the landscape itself.

Mansel is committed to an artistic practice which examines the natural world and how we, as artist and viewer within this realm of painted invention, can often visualize and find context for our own human reflection.