UPDATE     ↓COMMENT↓    VISITS: 3   FEATURE LAST UPDATED: 2024-10-05 LynnetteShelley.com (Lyn­nette Shelley) SOURCE: LynnetteShelley.com BACKGROUND Lyn­nette Shel­ley is an award-win­ning Penn­syl­va­nia artist spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary mixed media ani­mal and nature paint­ings. Hav­ing a great love of wildlife, pat­terns and arche­types, Shel­ley fus­es these influ­ences into her strik­ing art­works. Her high­ly detailed and com­plex com­po­si­tions are cre­at­ed using a buildup of mul­ti­ple lay­ers of ink and acrylic and incor­po­rates tech­niques in both draw­ing and paint­ing — from cross­hatch­ing and mark-mak­ing to ink splat­ter and lin­ear paint­ing. Some of Shel­ley’s work (her “faux­sa­ic” paint­ings) also incor­po­rates ele­ments of col­lage in which she adds hand-col­ored and cut water­col­or paper to the art­work in a process that resem­bles mosa­ic tile. Shel­ley’s ani­mal and nature themed art­works have been dis­played nation­al­ly as well as region­al­ly at muse­ums, art gal­leries and oth­er venues. In 2021, Shel­ley was award­ed “Mas­ter Arti­san” sta­tus by the Penn­syl­va­nia Guild of Craftsmen. In addi­tion to her fine art pur­suits, Shel­ley is also the co-founder of The Red Masque, an orig­i­nal dark art rock / pro­gres­sive rock band she has been writ­ing and per­form­ing in since 2001. Shel­ley is also the vocal­ist in Green Cathe­dral, a con­tem­po­rary art rock band. They released their debut album in 2017. Orig­i­nal­ly from Delaware, Shel­ley lives in Ambler, Penn­syl­va­nia, and main­tains a pri­vate stu­dio in Maple Glen.