Annual Print 2008

$75.00

Lora Shelley, Moon Watcher, etching, 6” x 8”

Regarding the subject of the print Shelley notes, “I tried to combine the idyllic natural environment of the Hudson Valley with my own interest in exploring the inconsistancy of a light-hearted sweetness that often exists in dark, disturbed individuals. A strong sense of humor accompanies an empathy which lightens the mood ever so slightly but nothing can relieve the eternal longing.”

Lora Shelley graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration in 1994. She studied a year abroad in Italy as part of the European Honors Program. Her works have graced local magazine covers from The Valley Table to Chronogram and have been featured in many publications such as Art Business News, Décor and The Country and Abroad. Shelley was the featured artist of the July 2005 issue of the Catskill Mountain Region Guide. She regularly exhibits her work throughout the country from Carmel, California to the Copley Society in Boston. In 1998 she was awarded an Artists Workspace fellowship-residency at the Woodstock School of Art and in 2001 received the Annual Print Award from the Woodstock Artists Association. Since 2001 she has exhibited as part of the United Nations’ Art in Embassies program in Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa. She continues to paint figurative works and create handmade prints working in a tiny, secret room in an old farmhouse in Greene County.