24 - Wednesday, October 16, 1991 - North Shore News

Bringing art back to the communi

® ECAUSE ART is their whole world, Barry and

dd and pleasure.

“Our philosophy is, we live for
and by art,” says Barry Shelton,
explaining that before their car
broke down, he and Monica used
to drive around West Vancouver
with a licence piate that read,
“LVE ART,” which stood for
“We live art, we love art.”

The Sheltons are so committed
to their art they even sleep with it.

The happy couple say good
night in a cubicle that was bathed
in sunlight the morning of our in-
terview, {sur simple white wails
covered with their own art and a
bed plunked right in the middle of
the room.

They've even created a studio
for their two children, Corey, 9,
and Rhea, 5, to muck about in.

it's an inspiring surrounding,
and, after travelling the globe for
the last 10 years, the Sheltons
jumped at the chance of purchas-
ing their. rambling West Bay home

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Monica Shelton make no distinction between work

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SPOTLIGHT FEATURE

because it was, according to Barry,
“the closest thing to a farm on
the ocean.”

It took time, however, for Corey
and Rhea to understand that Mom

and Dad weren't going to the of-
fice tike other parents.

“But they’ve really been great
about it,” says Monica. “And
they really nourish me as an ar-
tist.” a
It took them time, too, to adjust
to the idea of not having to get up
and get dressed for work each
morning.

“We have to be very focused
to pull this one off, especially
when you sit down to a blank
canvas,” says Barry.

it should be getting easier. Barry
and Monica Shelton have been
living for and by art for nearly 20
years now. After all of that time
one might suspect they’ve become
two parts of the same artistic iden-
tity, but they haven’t. They’re
distinct, creative voices with very
individual style.

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Barty works largely with
geometric symbolism and abstrac-
tions in earthy tones. Monica’s
nature-inspired paintings are
bright, colerful, and often playful.

Barry says they consider
themselves ‘very different peo-
ple who come from opposite ends
of the spectrum.’ Which explains
why their studios are located at
opposite ends of the house..”

Bany, clad from head to toe in-: - ...

artist’s black and sporting a pony-
tail, was born in Toronto. He has a
geology and teaching background.
Monica, in matching ponytail, is a
native of Chile. ;

They met in Toronto in 1967 in
their last year of high school. in
1971 they tied the knot and spent
the next severa! years travelling all
over the world. They worked on a
kibbutz in Isrzei, trekked through

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Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
“People ask us where we stud-
ied art. We studied through travel-

ling,” says Monica. “And
through that we learned there are
other realities.”

It is at this point that the inter-
view hits its only snag. Barry inter-
rupts the conversation with an
ever so-gentle frown, explainin:

t loesn’t like discussing the.
past.-Both he and Monica work
and live only in the moment, he --
says, which is-why they rarely...
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“We paint art for the moment -
and live in accordance with that”

He’d rather talk about their _:
home studio exhibits, an idea they

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