Shannon Belthor

I bring to my sculpting life-long practices in dance, meditation, and a broad range of creative mediums. An abiding love of nature imbues my work with aliveness, sinuous lines and vibrant color play attuned to pulsing rhythms of motion and time.

The current series is Spiritus Naturalis, in which I'm combining Madrona branches; copper; and my handmade, variously pigmented flax fiber paper to create gestural nature spirit figures.

The fleshy, sensual Madrona trees on the island provide branches ideal for playing with creature forms. Reimagining and rearranging them reveals each nature spirit in the series through the process of making.

In 2001, I completed a 3-year Master of Fine Arts degree from UMass/Dartmouth, which deepened the roots of my artistry, and unveiled a life’s worth of creative potentials.