Shelley Anne Tipton Irish (Sati) – Oil Painter, Art Teacher, Certified Therapeutic Arts Coach and Meditation Master guiding people in personal liberation through tools of the imagination. Teaching and painting bios below.
My paintings act as bridges between the beauty of the natural world and the rawness of feeling and healing.
I am the proud founder of the Art Garden in West Seattle!
‘The little art school where mastery meets medicine.’
My mission is to make art creation accessible, meaningful, and transformative, whether you are a beginner or advanced artist. I work with individuals, families, teams and groups of all kinds. I utilize a Socratic seminar and meditative approach that helps each person find their own artistic voice.
– 24 years of teaching experience with students ages 3 – 90+
– Certified Therapeutic Arts Coach and (in progress) Somatic Healing Coach
– Daily Meditator of 10 years now, Guided Meditation Author and Active-Mind, Insight Meditation Teacher through Training in Power Academy
Kids at the Art Garden in West Seattle
Live-streamed online paint party for sales team at Microsoft
Adult Students at the Art Garden during the very first Autumn Quarter
As a Painter:
I work in oils, using a combination of master’s and mische techniques. I paint thin and sand the surface in between layers, using glazes to build colorful luminosity.
I started ‘disappearing’ while painting as a young girl and the effects of the creative process on the brain have captivated me ever since. Deep meditation is the only thing I have been able to relate to these experiences.
My choice of subject matter comes from being emotionally moved by scenes in meditations, through shamanic journeying and tapping into the healing needed for the collective. I choose subjects that honor transcendental experiences, the connection of nature to healing, and the purity and strength of women.
I believe the female figure represents the sacredness of the world and that moon lovers are honoring an aspect of the sacred feminine.
My foundational intention is to offer my art as yantras – sacred images that act as touchstones to the parts of ourselves that are ready to return home. My wish is that you will find moments of peace through connecting with my artwork.
Selected Exhibitions:
Visions, Berkeley Alembic, CA, 2024-2025
Pulp Fiction, Greenwood Art Collective, Seattle, 2023
Sacred Realms, Society for Art of Imagination, online, 2022
Portals, Society for Art of Imagination, online, 2021
The Cosmic Creatrix, Moonrise Studios, Seattle, WA, 2019
Kinda Blue, Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY, 2018
Visionary Art Award, Moscow, Russia, 2018
Women by Women, Blue Door Art Gallery, Yonkers, NY, 2018
Visionary Alchemy, One Art Space, New York, NY, 2017
Beep Wales, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales UK, 2014
Chakra Rainbow, the Gallery at Nine 10 Arts, Denver, CO, USA, 2011
Artists Against Convention, Next Gallery, Denver, CO, USA, 2008
Publications:
We’Moon on the Wall Calendar and Datebook, We’Moon Oregon, USA, 2015, 2016 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025, 2026
Personal Power Painting, Shelley Irish, Seattle, WA, USA, 2016
Wee Book of Creativity, Child Rescue Foundation, Colorado, USA, 2002
Colorado Symphony Cookbook, Colorado Symphony, Colorado, USA, 1996
Residencies:
The Building, Seattle, WA, 2025 – present
Moonrise Studios, Greenwood Arts Collective, Seattle, WA, 2018 – 2025
Nine10Arts, Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, CO 2006 – 2010
Education:
MFA Figurative Oil Painting, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, 2009
Copy Artist Certification and Painting Courses, Ateliers du Carroussel & the Museum of Decorative Arts, Paris, France, 2006
BA Studio Art and International Studies, University of Denver, CO, 2003
