A colourful graphic designer.
Growing up in Sydney, Shelley attended art classes once a week after school. Her Grandfather encouraged her to draw & paint by buying her different art supplies.
She attended Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School where she first discovered her passion for graphic design.
Moving from Sydney to Newcastle, Shelley studied a Bachelor of Visual Communication Design, majoring in Illustration in which she graduated with distinction.
Shelley moved to the Mid North Coast in 2011 and It was during this time she started painting close ups of birds - acrylic on canvas. She would live paint at the markets, whilst selling her work.
Shelley got her first full time graphic design job in Tuncurry, which sadly meant her paint brush would take a back seat. Soon after, she started her freelance graphic design & photography business - creative shell and this became her main focus.
She has shifted her medium to digital art, drawing her artworks on a computer using a program called Adobe Illustrator. Her inspiration comes from her love of birds, her pet parrot Sun Conure, annual trips to Hawaii and her obsession with colour.
Shelley's recent exhibition - "Birds Eye View" is a play on words, it’s another name for an aerial, but in this case - Shelley takes it literally. A simplistic style, almost cartoon like, Shelley heavily relies on colour to evoke a response within the viewer by using bright palettes.