Details 
Date:

Decem­ber 8

Time:

11:00 am — 5:00 pm 

Event Cat­e­go­ry:

2019-12 (DECEMBER), Dates, Invi­ta­tions (ARCHIVE), Open Stu­dio on Chain Street, Venues

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It’s the first ever OPEN STUDIO at the art stu­dios on Chain Street in Nor­ris­town, PA! We will be open ONE DAY ONLY Sun­day, Decem­ber 8, 11 to 5 PM. This is a free event.

Host artists LYNNETTE SHELLEY (Stu­dio 6) and ELENA DIMI (Stu­dio 4) and guests artists JENNIFER DOMAL and ALBENA PASHOVA wel­come you to the stu­dios and invite you to relax, shop and chat with the artists about their work and the artists life. There will be com­pli­men­ta­ry refresh­ments available. 

The stu­dios are locat­ed on the THIRD FLOOR at 601 Chain Street in Nor­ris­town PA. 

Street Park­ing is avail­able. The stu­dios are also locat­ed a few blocks from the Nor­ris­town Train station.

PLEASE NOTE
YOU WILL NEED TO RSVP if you wish to attend the open studio.
You will be giv­en a phone num­ber to text so that when you arrive at the stu­dios one of the artists can come down­stairs and let you in the build­ing. There is no door­bell so unless you text us, we won’t know to let you in the build­ing, and because the stu­dios are locat­ed in a mixed use build­ing (pri­vate apart­ments are on the bot­tom floors), we can­not leave the street lev­el door unlocked.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

LYNNETTE SHELLEY (Stu­dio 6, Paintings)
Lyn­nette Shel­ley is an award-win­ning Penn­syl­va­nia artist spe­cial­iz­ing in con­tem­po­rary mixed media ani­mal paint­ings. Hav­ing a great love of wildlife, folk­tales, trib­al art and world mythol­o­gy, Shel­ley fus­es these influ­ences into her strik­ing­ly unique art­works. Her paint­ings strike a pri­mal chord in many view­ers, with almost Jun­gian asso­ci­a­tions to the col­ors and shapes. Her high­ly detailed and com­plex com­po­si­tions are cre­at­ed using a sophis­ti­cat­ed process devel­oped from a buildup of mul­ti­ple lay­ers incor­po­rat­ing tech­niques in both draw­ing and paint­ing — from cross­hatch­ing to dry brush­ing to ink splash­es and free­hand drawing.

​Shel­ley’s ani­mal and mytho­log­i­cal-themed art­works have been dis­played nation­al­ly as well as region­al­ly at muse­ums, art gal­leries and oth­er venues. 

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 Norristown.

WEBSITE
www.lynnetteshelley.com

ELENA DIMI (Stu­dio 4, Photography)
Ele­na Dimi is an award-win­ning pho­tog­ra­ph­er with a fine art por­trai­ture back­ground, based in Philadel­phia, PA.
Her true pas­sion is to pho­to­graph peo­ple, con­stant­ly try­ing to dis­cov­er their inti­mate images. The key ele­ment that she looks for in her work is reminiscence.

JENNIFER DOMAL (Pysanky)
Jen­nifer Domal is best known for writ­ing designs on eggshells using melt­ed beeswax, dye and acid, an art form known as pysanky. Her Pol­ish-Lithuan­ian her­itage first intro­duced her and her pas­sion for abstract and ide­al­ized forms, pat­tern and rep­e­ti­tion, line and dot influ­enced her deci­sion to con­tin­ue using eggshells. Ancient cul­tures and tra­di­tion­al art forms that use pat­tern, line and bold col­or cap­ti­vate her eye and will often find a way into pysanky and batik eggs. Designs are writ­ten on shells as small as quail and bob­white up to emu and ostrich, although the artist admits duck are a favorite for the porce­lain like finish.

Domal grew up in Bucks Coun­ty and moved to Chester Coun­ty soon after grad­u­at­ing from West Chester Uni­ver­si­ty. She went back to West Chester Uni­ver­si­ty to attain a BFA in Stu­dio Arts as a “mature” stu­dent after final­ly real­iz­ing that she was an artist. 

Domal has won awards in exhi­bi­tions for draw­ings, paint­ings and pysanky. She sells her work online, at shows and fes­ti­vals, and in galleries. 

WEBSITE
www.JenniferDomalStudios.com

ALBENA PASHOVA (Paint­ings)
Albe­na Pasho­va is newest addi­tion to the artists com­mu­ni­ty in the Main line area. 

Her paint­ings are a free flow­ing inter­pre­ta­tion of emo­tions. Play­ful and unin­hib­it­ed her orig­i­nal art pieces are inspired by nature. The free flow of paint on her can­vas­es cap­tures the raw pas­sion of land­scapes and the qui­et beau­ty of flower compositions. 

Self-thought raw tal­ent, Albe­na uses a vari­ety of acrylic pour­ing medi­um tech­niques enhanced with gen­tle brush stokes. The col­or scheme, bold and vibrant, is often accom­pa­nied by her sig­na­ture wispy lac­ing and tonal transitions.

She cre­ates paint­ings as a con­ver­sa­tion starter with her clients. Larg­er scale art and cus­tom col­or scheme can be commissioned. 

Some of her work is fea­tured in her online port­fo­lio ArtFlowing: 

WEBSITE
benipashova.wixsite.com/artflowing
Etsy store:
www.etsy.com/shop/ArtFlowing