I am so happy to meet you…

Hi, my name is Shelby Marcell. I am an artist, coach, and creatrix with a lifelong devotion to creativity as a path of healing and transformation. My initiation into outsiderhood began early, shaped not just by fracture but by the hollow absence of safe belonging. In that loneliness, I learned to perceive differently — to see with my hands, to feel with my heart. Beauty, nature, and creativity didn’t just glimmer against the dark; they illuminated it, teaching me how to live, how to discern truth when the world said I was wrong, and how to keep saying yes to life even when it hurt.

And what I’ve discovered, again and again, is this: creativity is what mends us; beauty is what reminds us why. Neither is an indulgence. They are breath and pulse, nourishment and flame — the forces that make the bitter survivable and the human story worth living.

This belief is the pulse of everything I do. I help brave and tender souls make peace with their fractures and sorrows, and in the process claim lives that nourish them, light them up, and brim with inspiration.

How I do this:

Art — paintings, digital works, and ceramics that serve as living talismans. They belong to the sorrow-carriers and the joy-seekers alike — to those in the wilderness of becoming, and to those who simply wish to surround themselves with beauty, inspiration, and delight.
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Coaching & Mentoring — I offer creative alchemy for artists, healers, visionaries, and seekers who are ready to step more fully into their lives. I can help if you’re ready to take your art seriously and move from dream to embodiment, or if you want support creating more balance, authenticity, and ease in the life that holds your creative work.
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Storytelling — the weaving of myth, metaphor, and meaning as nourishment for the spirit. Sometimes daily, sometimes seasonal, always enough to spark wonder, track the shimmer, and remind us of joy in the midst of our becoming.
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This is not just my work. It is my way of life:
The living practice of a Creatrix — gathering what is broken with blessing, tending the beauty that shimmers in the dark, stirring the raw and unruly into elixirs of beauty and meaning, and whispering to the aching and exiled parts: you are not forgotten… and you don’t have to walk alone.