T hough Shelley has lived in many places including Miami, the Keys, Guam, and California, she found her inner artist in Asheville, NC. There for fifteen years, while raising a young family, her professional artist life grew from dining room studio, to professional studio and eventually a large gallery she owned that hosted the work of more than 60 of Asheville’s environmentally informed artists. Shelley is known for her work called Magazine Mosaics. Each mosaic is created from scores of used magazine pages that were color sorted, hand-torn and fashioned into an environmentally themed mosaic. Culling old magazines for usable colors and textures is an ongoing process. Pulling the palette and artfully applying pieces to render a bold composition takes many hours with TEAR-riffic results! Now located on the shores of the St. John’s River, Shelley’s work is still informed by her love of nature and the 8-acre artsy-nature reserve she calls home, but she is reaching out of her original medium to include acrylic paintings and eventually 3-D sculptures.