Shirley Moulton is an Ottawa-based artist and writer, and has been showing her artwork professionally since 1995. She is a member of Arts Network Ottawa, Art East, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa Watercolour Society, and the Colored Pencil Society of America. She paints in a number of media, including oil, pastel, watercolour, pen & ink, gouache, and coloured pencil. Shirley paints in the manner of representational realism, and has completed many pet portrait commissions.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
2004-2005 Anatomy of the Portrait, Ottawa School of Art
July 2000 Hudson Valley Art Workshops, Greenville, NY; pastel workshop with Alan Flattman
2000-2003 Carleton University, Ottawa; courses in art history
1995-2003 Bob Grant’s School of Fine Art, Ottawa; art training in the traditions of the Old Masters and Impressionists.
1994-2002 Ottawa School of Art; courses in painting, figure drawing, portraiture.
1983-1986 Ontario Bible College, Willowdale, Ont.; Bachelor of Theology
1979-1983 Carleton University, Ottawa; Bachelor of Arts
MEMBERSHIPS
Ottawa School of Art, Art East, Colored Pencil Society of America, Ottawa Watercolour Society, Arts Network Ottawa.
AWARDS AND PRESENTATIONS (HIGHLIGHTS)
Mitel Corporation, Ottawa Senators Art Contest, 1998. First prize, portrait of goalie, in oil.
Ottawa Bluesfest Art Competition, 2000. First prize, pastel portrait of John Lee Hooker.
Ottawa School of Art, 2000, Ted Marshall Memorial Scholarship.
Carleton University, Charlatan Newspaper Literary and Arts Awards, 2003, honourable mention for visual arts.
Ottawa School of Art, Holiday Art Sale, 2005, best in show for Voodoo Drummer, in pastel.
Parkhurst Exchange, Canadian medical journal, July 2005, published Apple Blossoms, in oil.
Ottawa Orchid Society, 2012, second prize in oil for Fan with Orchids.
Ottawa Orchid Society, 2013, honourable mention in oil for Teapot with Orchids.
Ottawa Orchid Society, 2016, first prize in oil for Sake Set with Orchids.