{"id":89151,"date":"2026-02-25T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T00:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=89151"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:34:34","slug":"cover-artist-shellie-lewis-crisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-shellie-lewis-crisp\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Cover Artist:<\/strong> Shellie Lewis Crisp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_89171\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89171\" class=\"size-full wp-image-89171\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo-1024x544.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo-768x408.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo-810x430.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-duo-1140x605.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Living in Grace: the Gift. (Right) Root: the host. Shellie Lewis Crisp, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Shellie Lewis Crisp began her painting journey as a way to heal. When her family life was hectic running three restaurants and raising two sons, painting served as a means of therapy. A pursuit she had loved as an imaginative child moving from place to place with her military family and that led her to the College of Charleston to study with noted artists Michael Tyzack and Manning Williams had become peripheral until 2010. \u201cDuring a season of deep personal transition, after separation and eventually divorce, I retreated into a focused, six-month period of non-stop painting,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was here that I realized painting was my safe place, my therapist, my retreat from my crazy world\u2014it\u2019s the way I process life and search for my purpose, and I eventually found my way back to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89158\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89158\" class=\"wp-image-89158\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-3-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Behold: a messenger. Shellie Lewis Crisp, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, she compares how she works to keeping a spiritual journal. \u201cEvery piece starts with the written word\u2014prayers or verses that serve as the soul of the work, journals or quotes and deep thoughts to stay hidden,\u201d she says. For her, art offers solitude, time to talk to God and a safe place for her own healing and recovery. \u201cI paint because I have to; it is how I breathe, how I pray and how I invite others to see that, even in the darkness, the light is always finding its way in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her work, she says, has evolved throughout her career from a place of exploration of techniques and subjects to a confident mission to help others find hope in their own lives. \u201cI paint to connect, hoping that my visual journey helps others process their own struggles and find beauty in the messy, in the darkness and the mysterious corners of life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after that self-imposed commitment to painting 16 years ago, she found her professional standing as an artist when Ann DerGara and Tom Cabe of Red Wolf Gallery in Brevard offered to represent her work. \u201cI had emerged from my basement with a body of work that felt raw and new, and their belief in my vision gave me the confidence to keep exploring and painting intuitively,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-89172\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2-816x1024.jpg 816w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2-810x1016.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-11-copy-2-1140x1430.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>DerGara calls Crisp\u2019s work \u201cmesmerizing,\u201d and says, \u201cHer paintings draw you into them as you wonder what these girls are looking at or questioning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shellie shares her life with husband Jamie Crisp, a bass player who, she says, inspires her daily. \u201cI am profoundly grateful for the life we\u2019ve built, my two boys, my family and the friends who have become family,\u201d she adds.<\/p>\n<p>Working her way into her art emotionally and spiritually has taught her lessons along the way. \u201cI learned what a boundary was and how to draw it,\u201d she says. \u201cI learned I can trust my intuition and gut. I learned I made many mistakes, but also that I could forgive myself. I learned to think through and finish something, not be discouraged or afraid that what I am sharing is divinely guided.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those lessons have found their way onto the canvas as well. \u201cIn my art, I don\u2019t aim for perfection,\u201d she says. \u201cI aim for the honest \u2018cracks\u2019\u2014the layers of paint I strip away and the \u2018imperfections\u2019 I choose to expose. The patches and scratches and marks\u2014these all build a surface where an image will appear. I have recently been digging into metaphors and symbols to paint a story of a woman who is determined to heal her vessel. Her cracks are where I find His goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_89157\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89157\" class=\"wp-image-89157\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2-287x300.jpg 287w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2-981x1024.jpg 981w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2-768x802.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2-810x846.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Cover-Artist-Shellie-Crisp-1-copy-2-1140x1190.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-89157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I Spy. Shellie Lewis Crisp, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She works primarily in oils, incorporating collage and mixed media and painting on wood blocks or panels. Sometimes she uses found objects in her pieces as a way of adding history to the narrative. \u201cThe process of my creations begin,\u201d she says, \u201cwith writing, sketching randomly and rhythmically, applying various marks and splotches of paint; then I apply and remove paint to reveal images, developing them to my liking. This process may take minutes, hours or weeks to complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A recent work titled <em>First Place<\/em> signifies, for her, spiritual balance\u2014\u201cchoosing to put the divine and the self at the forefront after years of carrying the weight of the world. I stopped settling for what didn\u2019t answer my internal fight to be whole, or deserving to feel right in my soul,\u201d she says. \u201cI finally had the belief in myself, one strong enough to fight to be seen, to push through the crowd and touch His hem.\u201d<br \/>\nIn essence, she says, \u201cArt transcends, art inspires and art can speak to our souls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Find Shellie Lewis Crisp\u2019s work at regional galleries including Red Wolf Gallery in Brevard, located at 8 East Main Street. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/RedWolfGalleryNC.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RedWolfGalleryNC.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shellie Lewis Crisp began her painting journey as a way to heal. 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