About Shelley Snow
A Franklin, Tennessee native, Shelley spent more than a dozen years growing up in the Carnton Plantation home with her parents and two sisters. Her artistic abilities became so apparent at the age of seven, Shelley's mother found a German woman living in Franklin to teach her watercolor painting. She continued to master the art of watercolor painting as well as develop her talents in other mediums.
Shelley is a signature mamber of the Southern Watercolor Society. Her work has won national awards including:
- The Southern Watercolor Award of Excellence
- The Southern Watercolor Five Year Award
- Watercolor USA
- Tennessee Watercolor Society Award
Her oil and watercolor commissions for Portraits and landscapes have taken her all over the world. Shelley has been commissioned by clients in Europe, Japan, China, Tahiti, the South Seas and the Middle East. She has traveled extensively in Mexico to paint and had a one-woman show in Mexico City.
Shelley's clients include major corporations, government, country music stars, political figures and many prominant individuals. She was commissioned by the Governor of Tennessee to paint a mural on all eight walls of the Octagon Room in the Governor's Mansion which took seven months to complete. For her outstanding work, she was appointed by the Governor to serve on the Tennessee Arts Commission from 1990 to 1997.
Shelley co-authored a book in 2004, "Gathering in the Garden, " which contains thirty or more of her paintings and is published by Capital Books in Sterling Virginia.
She has been represented by galleries in Atlanta, Houston, TX, Mexico City, Nashville, TN, Columbia, SC, and Saraota, FL. Shelley currently teaches regular weekly classes and does watercolor workshops at the Artisan's Campus in Franklin.