MARGARET SHELTON: BLOCK PRINTS

Margaret Shelton (1915-1984) was a Calgary based artist with a deep passion for the Alberta landscape. Her block prints illustrate the diversity and beauty of nature, and they often portray the way we interact within it. Rather than express landscape in the romantic and painterly way that was popular at the time, Shelton’s interpretations are direct, honest, and detailed. Her contributions to the development of printmaking in Canada are significant, having created hundreds of block prints in her half-century career as an artist.

This exhibition presents a brief visual insight into how Shelton captures and interprets the Alberta culture through printmaking, using 24 works that span her long and prolific career.

This exhibition was curated by Todd Schaber and Tessa Embleton, Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Region 1 of the AFA Travelling Exhibition Program (TREX).