SHELLEY BATCULES is a creative spirit, committed to a life-long journey of learning, and sharing, the multi-dimensional creative process, which requires embarking on the internal (psychological) and external (physical) exploration of several facets:
1st: Recognize the phases of revelation, commitment and sacrifice required to live life in the role of an artist.
2nd: Explore how art as a purpose, plays a significant role as a universal language, or form of expression, within contemporary society, on the local level and in the greater World sphere.
3rd: Innovate through experimentation using various mediums of expression such as visual fine art, mixed media, digital and video art.
4th: Look back as you look forward. Learn from the past, from the History of Art, and the history it documents about the development of society.
5th: Embrace every moment in life by seeing each experience as a potential creative opportunity. Consider the idea, “Life is a classroom,” composed with an orchestration of all forms of objective and subjective communication, that when applied builds a “perfect circle” or cycle of learning, that incorporates all forms and facets of the human condition and experience.
6th: Use intuitive instincts to develop an artistic outlook, and open the mind to appreciate the fact that “the only constant in life is change.”
7th: Embrace the right side of the brain, and delve into creative thinking and problem solving by balancing the order and chaos found in each instance, then apply the concept that each adversity is an opportunity to solve through the tenacity to create innovation.
8th Creativity is like Life – it is always in flux.
1st: Recognize the phases of revelation, commitment and sacrifice required to live life in the role of an artist.
2nd: Explore how art as a purpose, plays a significant role as a universal language, or form of expression, within contemporary society, on the local level and in the greater World sphere.
3rd: Innovate through experimentation using various mediums of expression such as visual fine art, mixed media, digital and video art.
4th: Look back as you look forward. Learn from the past, from the History of Art, and the history it documents about the development of society.
5th: Embrace every moment in life by seeing each experience as a potential creative opportunity. Consider the idea, “Life is a classroom,” composed with an orchestration of all forms of objective and subjective communication, that when applied builds a “perfect circle” or cycle of learning, that incorporates all forms and facets of the human condition and experience.
6th: Use intuitive instincts to develop an artistic outlook, and open the mind to appreciate the fact that “the only constant in life is change.”
7th: Embrace the right side of the brain, and delve into creative thinking and problem solving by balancing the order and chaos found in each instance, then apply the concept that each adversity is an opportunity to solve through the tenacity to create innovation.
8th Creativity is like Life – it is always in flux.
BABY STAND STRONG.
BE BOLD to believe bravely in your inner child.
LEAN ON FACTS; learn to be lean and see truth over fiction, with found objects observed through personal observation.
SEE FACTS through the sight of your own eyes.
SET SIGHTS on building up your personal perspective.
BE PROUD to: PROP-UP your point!
POUND-DOWN into the punctuation of your profound nature, nurtured in an underground pipeline of positivity.
PIERCE into pictures of people in your past, who present profound lessons.
PONDER the “FACT/FICTION” we find ourselves living in; a “foundation/folly,” fundamentally fixated on finding the PARADOX – TO CREATE CONFUSION…
Calculated CONCLUSION: an “Ordered Chaos” the children will consume.
BE BOLD to believe bravely in your inner child.
LEAN ON FACTS; learn to be lean and see truth over fiction, with found objects observed through personal observation.
SEE FACTS through the sight of your own eyes.
SET SIGHTS on building up your personal perspective.
BE PROUD to: PROP-UP your point!
POUND-DOWN into the punctuation of your profound nature, nurtured in an underground pipeline of positivity.
PIERCE into pictures of people in your past, who present profound lessons.
PONDER the “FACT/FICTION” we find ourselves living in; a “foundation/folly,” fundamentally fixated on finding the PARADOX – TO CREATE CONFUSION…
Calculated CONCLUSION: an “Ordered Chaos” the children will consume.
Shelley’s formal academic journey commenced at Niagara College of Applied Arts & Technology in the Communication Arts & Graphic Design Program, where she was honoured as valedictorian, and awarded the Faculty of Applied Arts & Sciences Award for the top overall academic achievement.
Shelley then enrolled in the one-of-a-kind joint program offered by the University of Toronto and Sheridan College Art & Art History Specialist Program (Toronto) which combined the academic strength of U of T art history in conjunction with the powerful studio art programs Sheridan College is renowned for.
Shelley then enrolled in the one-of-a-kind joint program offered by the University of Toronto and Sheridan College Art & Art History Specialist Program (Toronto) which combined the academic strength of U of T art history in conjunction with the powerful studio art programs Sheridan College is renowned for.
This invaluable academic and studio hybrid experience resulted in Shelley achieving her Nomination to the International Golden Key Honour Society, University of Toronto Chapter (1st Canadian Chapter) for being in the top 15% academic status in North America, a position on the Presidential Honour Roll (with distinction), and both Woolfitt’s and Stevenson’s studio awards for drawing and painting. At the University of Toronto, Batcules chose to pursue an academic specialist degree in art history, with a minor in the Classics, and cultural anthropology.
Shelley Batcules is a Canadian artist, born and raised in the Niagara Region, Ontario.
Shelley was named after the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and was born to an artistic heritage, as her maternal grandmother Frances Millicent Hope Scourfield (1915 - 2008) was a prolific painter from Reading, England who painted many portraits, horses, and landscapes in the romantic tradition of John Constable (1776 - 1837). This tradition stimulated Shelley’s fascination with painting very early in life.
Throughout childhood Shelley spent most of her free time drawing portraits and landscapes further tempting her strong desire to study art formally.
ART is the manifestation of a "State of Mind,"
that speaks on conscious and subconscious levels. ART opens many avenues to teach the idea that life is a complex classroom composing infinite experiences.
Change is the only constant...
ART is FREE EXPRESSION, and an invaluable opportunity to explore the root and growth of the human condition.
It is important to see where we come from, step back to contemplate where we are, and conceptualize the potential space we propose to go.
THE FORMAL VS. THE PRACTICAL
and the Power of experiemtial discovery.
True growth requires the ability to be open-minded, to be courageous to take risks with experimentation, and the ability to define perfection for yourself, not in the lens of others, to allow a space to "get dirty" in playful discovery as this is where innovation is born. Consider the idea that in life experiential practical knowledge is as valuable as a formal education. And the relationships formed in each set the stage of your character.