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S. Botteril

Shelley Botterill was featured in our Art Walk 2002 at The Owl & The Pussycat and is a recent addition to our membership.

 

 

 

 

	The Vixens
	The Vestites
	The Trans
	The Freaky
	The Hum Drum
	The Boring
	The Compulsive

Artists Statement

 

An explanation of my work is difficult to put into ordered words.  I make things because I like to and I am obsessed with the visual world, color, texture and theories alike.  In art making for myself it just happens and comes from a place I am just learning to understand.  I see visual art in the most common of things and am interested in the most ordinary of events, objects and people.  Every day life is my muse.

 

I have had many great opportunities to study visual art with a wide variety of talented artists/teachers.  I studied at the Kootenay School of the Arts as well as at the Alberta College of Art and Design.

 

 

 

The series 'Alter Egos' came alive when two ideas merged into one.  My first idea was to create alter egos of myself and the second idea came from my curiosity in the covers of novels written in the 1950's.  I have been gathering novels from this time period mainly because I find the covers to be of interest.

 

On the covers, women are often depicted in dark shadows, frightened and alone with a looming dark castle or male figure in the background.  Another common cover is a woman sprawled on the ground helplessly while two men fight over her.

 

 

 

 

And finally, a quote from a book that was not written in the '50s, but describes quite eloquently in words that my paintings are saying in images.

"Even pretending you aren't catering to a male fantasy is a male fantasy:  Pretending you're unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your own feet and comb your own hair unconscious of the ever present watcher peering through the keyhole in your own head.  You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman.  You are you're own voyeur."

The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood

For more information about this artist, contact The Cranbrook & District Arts Council at (250) 426-4223 or EMAIL us.