Shelby Applegate

A self-confessed late bloomer Shelby Applegate has been a full time artist since 1994. She loves to explore new media, and in her summers at The Penland School of Crafts she has delved into the wonders of printmaking, papermaking, pastels and painting, to name but a few. Sharing this information with fellow artists and local students are ways that she spreads her love of these artistic processes.

Her own work has become increasingly free and abstract as her explorations have progressed. She has found herself working with handmade paper collages, doing monotypes and occasionally stitching works together to create pieces that are difficult to classify, but easy to appreciate.

 She is a founder member of a Lebanon Area Art Studio Tour, where people are invited to visit artists at work in their studios thereby creating greater awareness among the public of the creative process.

She has shown regularly at the Mt. Gretna show since 1994 and has been a frequent participant in other area juried exhibitions including a recent Prize in Mixed Media at the Art Association of Harrisburg. Within the last couple of years she has shown at the Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery of Lebanon Valley College, Lancaster Art Museum, Lancaster Galleries West in Elizabethtown, The Whitaker Center, M & T Bank in Harrisburg and Lebanon Fine Art Gallery.

Tree - Monoprint

Garden - Encaustic