Art Americana Painted Wood Carvings

Folk Art Americana Painted Wood Carvings

Mary Michael Shelley is a folk artist, a painter and a wood carver. A "self-taught", artist, she is best known for her carved folkart paintings of waitresses, diners, animals, cows, farms, sailboats and central New York regional themes.

Working from her Ithaca, NY studio, in the heart of the Finger Lakes region she uses art to explore and make sense of life events, dreams and emotions, sometimes calling her artwork a "picture diary" or "picture story".
The paintings in the slideshow include:

Sailing with Swirls, carved white pine, acrylic paint and gold leaf
Waitress and Customer, Eat. Acrylics, goldleaf, carved pine.
Sullivan's Diner in Green with Fan. Acrylics, gold leaf, carved pine.
Snoozing Farmer, Carved White pine, acrylic paint, gold leaf.