BIO

Shalea Niles received her BFA in Art Education from Georgia State University (2015). As an artist, educator, holistic healer, and yoga instructor she mostly creates drawing and paintings from opening up portals of conversation around the human body parts. Shalea’s influence of her healing her yoga practice shows through her work and helps her connect with her body in a more internal way. Through her work the variety of ways and emotions that take place in the times of the creation before and during the pieces are created bring the viewer into a portal that viewer may needed for their own internal healing. Shalea’s main focus are the hands and legs. Shalea believes in our everyday life experiences affect how we are as humans and what we create as artists. The three connections the triangle of life is to be in full connection of your body, mind and spirit. Her work explores the emotional physical, and vibrational expression through the experience of our individual parts of our body with the influences of the everyday practices from reading, self-care, filling your cup with holistic and yoga practices. Her current practices is stepping into the lenses of a variety of mini portals attached together to create a new picture plane of portals pieced together. She uses her discovery of the experience of the natural disasters in human experience to navigate through the mind of creation to bring human inner experience outward. She puts a lot of energy into her work to the peel down all the layers with creation of healing oneself. Each piece is a story to tell that is a part of her even bigger collage in life.