Current Exhibits - Shelly Hawley-Yan

Shelly Hawley-Yan is a self-taught artist with a scientific background (B.Sc in Biochemistry from the University of Waterloo, She received her Master Herbalist diploma from the Wild Rose College.
Shelly, who lives and creates in Caledon, runs a family/artist collective. The collective has worked succesfully for the past 25 years. Their our home is a foster haven for cats, dogs, bunnies and birds, and occasionally even wild creatures.

Shelly creates small scale and miniature pieces in digital media, using rich coloured pencils, delicate inks, and/or scratchboard. Shelly also teaches music and art workshops online and in person.

"I feel that my scientific background enables me to look more critically at my illustrations, and gives them greater scientific accuracy and and believability. Although I work in several media; scratchboard, colored pencil, aquarelle, and screen printing, my first love is ink, black or colored, using both stippling and line drawing, often with watercolor added. Some of my work is in a more graphic style, but I generally prefer highly detailed images."
Custom projects are always welcome - we would love to discuss your creative vision

Shelly Hawley-Yan is the mama bear of On Dragon Wings Studio - a family studio in Caledon

All three artists; Shelly, Emma & Connor love to create in diverse media - but our subjects are almost always animals and the world we share.

Wild creatures that share our fragile environment, farm friends and companion animals, we are inspired by the creatures around us

Shelly creates small scale and miniature pieces in digital media, rich coloured pencils, delicate inks, or scratchboard.
Emma creates beautiful whimsical acrylics, inks and watercolours
And Connor creates large scale murals in spray paints, lush oils on canvas and bold inks.

Custom projects are always welcome - we would love to discuss your creative vision!