SHELLEY WALES

While exploring the wilderness I paint I hike, scramble, bushwhack, get rained on, sometimes burnt and almost always eaten alive by bugs, all while trying to get to the places that call to me. Some of these places are beside lonely, sometimes forgotten roads or trails, others are so far away from signs of people that it is easy to forget that people exist. My paintings are of these special places and the stories they have to share.

Working primarily in watercolour and oil, my landscapes are based on photographs and plein air pieces I have done on location. Recently I have been exploring the idea that landscape and our recollections of it are not one thing but are instead a collection of small, sometimes seemingly insignificant, things. When put together they tell a candid story of an intimate moment in time shared between the wild and ourselves.

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