Renee Phillips, Director and Curator, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY

Shirley’s artwork is so full of healing and light that I decided to share some of it with you and the Art Review I wrote for her.

Her Art Exudes An Infectious Enthusiasm

As an artist Shirley Wallitsch exudes an infectious and unbridled enthusiasm and shares her affinity with the natural world. Her oil paintings emanate a resounding vibrant medley of colors and forms. Textural qualities applied with confidence and spontaneity bring a luscious depth, dimension, and luminosity to her work.

Summer Garden, oil on canvas, 40″ x 42″

Shirley is a color virtuoso who has mastered a treasure trove of chromatic and tonal ranges. Her expansive artistic vision is enhanced by her skillful use of stylistic expressions, gestural painting methods, different methods including splatters and and mark-making that delightfully embrace aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Abstraction.

Stars, mountains, flowers, and minerals spark her creativity and meld with her innate positive spirit that immediately lifts our moods. Not satisfied with merely replicating nature Shirley emphasizes the symbolic and emotional sensations that exist within the natural world.

Connections,  oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″

Small symphonies dance throughout Shirley’s paintings as both micro and macro worlds coexist. She brings an exciting world of abundant possibilities to life before our eyes and minds.

In her geometric abstractions we are propelled into the exhilarating juxtapositions of advancing and retreating forms. She creates a visual dynamic interplay of harmonies, contrasts, and synchronicity.

Triumph, oil on canvas, 44″ x 68″

Shirley unites her joie de vivre with her creative talent. Her versatility is plentiful, and she offers many surprises for us to discover and explore.