Shelley Mitchell was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After attending her Foundation year at Nova

Scotia College of Art and Design and going to Georgian College of Applied Art in Ontario she

worked as an architectural draftsman and project manager before returning to NSCAD where she

earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Painting and Art History. Since then she has shown

professionally in both group and solo shows in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New

Brunswick, Ontario and Maine. She was featured in the book “From Land and Sea, Nova

Scotia’s Contemporary Landscape Artists” published in 2009 and selected by the Nova Scotian

government as the province’s official gift at the Vancouver Olympics. Her work is represented in

the Canadiana Fund State Art Collection in Ottawa as well as many private and corporate

collections in Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe. She is currently represented by 14 Bells Gallery

and The Prow Gallery in Halifax, Details Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI, Trinity Gallery in Saint

John, NB, and Wallacks Galleries in Ottawa.

"Art is not always a strictly aesthetic process; it is a means of imposing form on our thoughts and

experience so we can recognize what moves us. I render the space and objects around me to give

meaning and value to them and as a meditation. The resulting paintings embody serenity and

balance and an escape into a tranquil moment."

- Shelley Mitchell