Press Releases

                                                                                  "Giants"     
                                                              
   "Shelly Hearne is known for employing a bold, inventive color pallete in her paintings.  Hearne`s works...posess a "stained glass" quality created by the use of deep, saturated color bordered by heavy black lines."--Southwest Art (July 2004)

"Hearne is also known for her bold palette-her paintings are vibrant pastel and acrylic renderings of aspen trees as well as various combinations of tulips and fruit."--Southwest Art (August 2003)

"Hearne works in pastel and in texturized acrylics, created stylized impressions of pears, apples, or tulips."--Southwest Art (June 001)

"Shelly Hearne`s vibrant painting "Giants" graces the cover of this magazine and her colorful abstractions of landscapes, horizons and flowers may be found at the Ben West Gallery in Hill City, South Dakota, which also offers limited edition reproductions of Hearne`s work." (Art of the Hills, premier issue 2006-2007)