About the artist
Shelley Mansel’s professional artistic career has spanned 20 years and has been devoted almost exclusively to painting the landscape. The landscape construct provides the foundation for her painting, yet each body of work has portrayed a specific sub-theme within this context.
Her formal strengths with respect to draftsmanship, colour, composition, and luminosity support her ability to restrain the landscape to its most elemental forms and convey a conventional and idyllic portrayal of geography. Her paintings demonstrate a timeless and universal quality, yet the beauty of each image also alludes to the inherent ephemeral nature of landscape.
Mansel excels within the landscape genre. She portrays rural environments which are distinctly Canadian and yet are invariably universal. Shelley 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.
Shelley Mansel is currently represented by 4 galleries. To view available work and for purchase inquiries, you can contact these galleries directly. These links will take you directly to view paintings on their websites:
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CV
EXHIBITIONS
2023
• Dwell, The Prow Gallery, Halifax
2019
Drew Klassen/Shelley Mansel, Gallery B., Castine, Maine
New Works, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, Group
2018
New Works, Harvest Gallery, Wolfville, Group
2017
New Works, Ingram Gallery, Toronto, Group
2015
New Works, Ingram Gallery, Toronto, Group
2014
Six Acres II, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
2013
Six Acres, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
2012
New Works, Ingram Gallery, Toronto, Group
2011
Relics, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
Happy Wash, Nocturne Interactive Installation, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
2009
Armature, Ingram Gallery, Toronto
2008
Urban Cathedrals, Gallery Page and Strange, Halifax
2007
Divining II, Ingram Gallery, Toronto
Sweet Tooth, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Group
2006
New Works, Two-Person Show with Chris Carbone, Winsor Gallery, Vancouver
Six by Two, Two-Person Show with Sheila Norgate, Ingram Gallery, Toronto
Faith in a Seed, Argyle Fine Art and FRED, Halifax
2005
Transitions Argyle Fine Art, Halifax
Ideas of Order, Ingram Gallery, Toronto
Pre-Shrunk, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Group
2004
Divining, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax
Grayscale, Ingram Gallery, Toronto, Group
2003
Lucky Ones with their Shadows, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax
Alpha Chalk, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Group
2002
Winterscapes, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax
2001
Fool Hearted Gala, Lord Nelson Ballroom, Halifax, Group
Art x 10, Cambridge Library, Halifax, Group
Emerging Artists, Argyle Fine Art, Halifax, Group
1999
Autumn Gold, St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Group
1998
Bluff, graduating show, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax
COLLECTIONS
University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry, Vancouver, 2006
St. Mary’s University, Halifax, 1999
MEDIA COVERAGE
Sharing the View Calendar, publication CBC/Sobey’s, marquee artists, 2013/2014
Erin Costelo – Fire & Fuss, work present on CD album cover, 2009
She’s All That, blogzine Things of Desire, Vol. I, No. 4, 2008
The Lure of the Empty Office Space, Chronicle Herald, Halifax, 2008
A Decade of Painting, 10-year retrospective book of landscape paintings, 2008
The History of Rivers, conference support material, UBC, 2007
Late Bloomer, artist feature in Chronicle Herald, magazine insert, 2006
Art in Halifax, Where Magazine, 2006
Nature Up Close, Chronicle Herald, 2006
Mansel on the Move, Chronicle Herald, Halifax, 2005
House & Home Magazine, work present on cover/feature article, 2003
Room Service, HGTV, work present in Season 2, episode 32, 2002
AWARDS
Creation Grant, Grants to Individuals Program, Arts Nova Scotia, 2016
Creation Grant, Grants to Individuals Program, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, 2010
Creation Grant, Grants to Individuals Program, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, 2008
Presentation Grant, Grants to Individuals Program, Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture, and Heritage, 2008