Shelly’s passions for wildlife, travel and conservation are constant factors in the development and realisation of her work. She aims to emulate both the beauty and fragility of the natural world and present that to her audience in an accessible way through her work.

Shelly’s work is created in a highly unusual way combining a variety of techniques both traditional and contemporary. She starts working by hand with strong, fluid line drawings, painted textures, water colour washes and found textiles which are then brought together digitally, layering up all of the hand-rendered elements with the line drawings on top and the colour, textures and washes at varying levels of opacity underneath.  

The finished ‘collages’ are stored as detailed files sometimes comprising over 150 layers meaning that their only output is as digital prints. Shelly prints all her artwork using the Giclee technique, a form of archival quality digital printing. All her prints are sold in short run limited editions of just 50. The prints are not a copy or scan of an original piece but an original output for the work in their own right, making them highly unusual and collectable pieces of art which feature in private and public collections all over the world.

https://www.shellyperkins.co.uk