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:

Harvest Gallery/ Wolfville,NS

Gibson Fine Art/ Calgary,AB

Gallery B/ Castine,ME

The Prow Gallery/ Halifax,NS

↓ See below for full CV:

 

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