Upon meeting Shelli Robiner-Ardizzone in 1975, a 
renowned psychic said, "I see you surrounded by color,
fabric, and texture".

For three decades, this creative spirit has made her  mark as
 a textile colorist, entrepreneur, decorative painter, art instructor,
and fine artist. Purposefully, passionately, pursuing all things
paint, painterly, and paintable.

With color as my muse, I feel the joy of personal self- generated
sweat as I fall in love with the technology of water color, pastels,
acrylics, and oil paints. My love of making a variety of marks, 
gestural, visible,  developed into an energetic painterly realistic 
style, working from observation in a time honored subject matter,
still life, figurative and landscapes.

Materials and physical movements of my faux finishing work has 
crept into my easel orientation. It's NOT about embracing abstract 
painting, BUT for the fascination with manipulating the media itself.
Intuitively, I began using my hands as I would, rags,  brushes, 
sponges, spatula,  pressing into, building up, and softening. 
Instinctive applications are blobbed, scraped, incised, smushed,
dripped, and blotted. Inventive marks are used often as a first layer 
UNDER my pastels, acrylics, and oils. Realistic subject matter is
rendered in traditional  methods of application.

Traditional fine arts and decorative painting, once separate, become 
beloved offspring  to the same parent – ME. This fusion and synergy
has been an ongoing patchwork  progression, demanding my mid-
wivery and attentive nurturing, as it has finally emerged, full blown into
my  mind. Traversing a lifetime of devouring and honing of my skills, 
the germination and fusion of my heretofore, artistic split personality
is the  nexus and inspiration for future work. Please stay tuned.

For more about Shelli, her paintings and meditations on
painting for artists,

Please visit her blog at:
www.paintinginsideout.blogspot.com