Shelley Carlisle
One of my favorite activities is to load up my tear drop camping trailer lovingly named “HRTEMYS,” and head out on solo road trip expeditions to the grounding and healing landscapes of the forests, desert, canyons, mountains, and beaches. Armed with a zest for adventure and photography equipment, it is in these awesome and mystical spaces where I hunt for the most unique scenes to capture the beauty and grandeur of Mother Nature and the Sacred Feminine. Through sharing these photographic images, I hope to inspire the viewer to step inside a magical place where one can be spiritually transported and viscerally experience the sublime majesty of the natural world.
My photographic images are employed in a myriad of other artworks: cut-out animation, collage, video, and installation, exploring themes and stories of the Sacred Feminine. Nature symbolism, numerology, mythology, and ancient cultures highlighted with contemporary elements are templates to evoke remembrance of our spiritual selves and honor feminine energies and archetypes. My vision is to create meditative environments, often along with my original music, to create literal and metaphorical reflective environments.
I am the recipient of the Fall 2023 Collage Artist of the Year Award at the Art Comes Alive competition and show with ADC Fine Art, where I have exhibited for several years, and in 2022 received the Mills College Nancy Cook Fellowship Award. My work is exhibited in various solo and group shows and juried art fairs throughout California and neighboring states and I have been a photographic finalist in many competitions. I earned a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Art degree from Mills College, Oakland California, and reside in Nevada City, CA where I also teach youth animation classes.
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