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Harvest Gallery is pleased to present Under One Roof, a new engaging exhibition by Nova Scotia based artist Shelley Mansel, on view from September 13th to October 5th, 2025. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 13th, from 1–3 PM on the gallery’s lower level. Join us in celebrating this new body of work meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments.
Under One Roof is a series of double exposure paintings that entwine the architecture of human dwelling with the vastness of natural surroundings. In these works, houses dissolve into sea, sky, and land—fragile structures suspended within environments that both shelter and threaten. Beneath the surface, blueprint textures emerge, echoing the bones of design and the impermanence of what we build.
This body of work is a two-part invention, a meditation on dualities: presence and absence, permanence and dissolution, the human-made and the elemental. Like a fugue, the images fold into themselves, repeating and transforming, revealing how closely our lives are bound to the shifting ground of the natural world.
Under One Roof resists the idea of individualism. As climate events grow increasingly severe, the notion of separate homes, separate fates, becomes unsustainable. We are bound to one another, and to the environments we inhabit. The house becomes not just a structure, but a metaphor—an emblem of both vulnerability and belonging.
These paintings ask: how will we live when the boundaries blur, when home itself becomes fluid? To dwell responsibly in the world requires acknowledging that we are all living within one fragile shelter—our shared earth. - Shelley Mansel
Shelley Mansel has been painting since 1993. Originally from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, she studied at the University College of the Fraser Valley before completing her BFA at NSCAD University in Halifax. Her work has been exhibited in Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Whistler, and Maine, and featured in House & Home, HGTV, and CBC’s Sharing the View calendar. She has self-published two books and is included in From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia’s Contemporary Landscape Artists. Her paintings are in private and public collections across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. She currently lives and works in Upper Musquodoboit, in the rural countryside of Nova Scotia.
For more information, visit www.harvestgallery.ca @harvestgalleryns on Instagram or @harvestgallerywolfville on Facebook. Or email [email protected].
[email protected]
9025427093
Harvest Gallery is pleased to present Under One Roof, a new engaging exhibition by Nova Scotia based artist Shelley Mansel, on view from September 13th to October 5th, 2025. An opening reception will take place on Saturday, September 13th, from 1–3 PM on the gallery’s lower level. Join us in celebrating this new body of work meet the artist and enjoy light refreshments.
Under One Roof is a series of double exposure paintings that entwine the architecture of human dwelling with the vastness of natural surroundings. In these works, houses dissolve into sea, sky, and land—fragile structures suspended within environments that both shelter and threaten. Beneath the surface, blueprint textures emerge, echoing the bones of design and the impermanence of what we build.
This body of work is a two-part invention, a meditation on dualities: presence and absence, permanence and dissolution, the human-made and the elemental. Like a fugue, the images fold into themselves, repeating and transforming, revealing how closely our lives are bound to the shifting ground of the natural world.
Under One Roof resists the idea of individualism. As climate events grow increasingly severe, the notion of separate homes, separate fates, becomes unsustainable. We are bound to one another, and to the environments we inhabit. The house becomes not just a structure, but a metaphor—an emblem of both vulnerability and belonging.
These paintings ask: how will we live when the boundaries blur, when home itself becomes fluid? To dwell responsibly in the world requires acknowledging that we are all living within one fragile shelter—our shared earth. - Shelley Mansel
Shelley Mansel has been painting since 1993. Originally from British Columbia’s Lower Mainland, she studied at the University College of the Fraser Valley before completing her BFA at NSCAD University in Halifax. Her work has been exhibited in Halifax, Toronto, Vancouver, Whistler, and Maine, and featured in House & Home, HGTV, and CBC’s Sharing the View calendar. She has self-published two books and is included in From Land and Sea: Nova Scotia’s Contemporary Landscape Artists. Her paintings are in private and public collections across Canada, the U.S., and Europe. She currently lives and works in Upper Musquodoboit, in the rural countryside of Nova Scotia.
For more information, visit www.harvestgallery.ca @harvestgalleryns on Instagram or @harvestgallerywolfville on Facebook. Or email [email protected].
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