Canadian artist Shelley Davies creates paintings, collages (many turned into jigsaw puzzles) and photographs that are bold, colour-infused and 3 dimensional. With a background in animation, feature films, television and theatre, career highlights including working on Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Phantom of the Opera, mostly in set painting. Shelley's many creative pursuits have led her to painting and illustration.

Wit, colour and play are what Shelley aims for, using collage, paint and happy accidents to create work with a strong graphic design sensibility. Working as an editorial illustrator, Shelley's art has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers across Canada. A frequent contributor to Uppercase Magazine, she makes herself right at home with their ethos of blending art, design and typography.

Shelley is probably best known commercially for her highly original jigsaws, in a unique collage style that has resulted on sales of over 400,000 puzzles by a variety of publishers.

Her paintings incorporate that bold colour she so loves, all with a sculptural aspect using multi-dimensional blocks, building up rhythmic layers of collaged, tightly composed fields of vibrant colour. Creating work that acts as an object in space, as well as an image, is very much a part of her methodology, with the sculptural dimension a key ingredient in her art.