REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST
REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST
What is your earliest memory of snow?
Mine is sledding in Central Park, on an unexpected snow day.
FIELDS OF SNOW • following spread: FIELDS OF SNOW (detail )
Time is like a snowflake: precious, fragile, fleeting.
Each moment unique.
REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST
Glaciers, brilliant blue-white, stretching infinite on the horizon.
Majestic, powerful, stoic—water frozen in time, weathering millennia.
A reservoir of life, fragile on a warming planet, melting not just to sea, but into memory.
ROB ROY GLACIER
To the future reader:
I hope you know the snow I knew.
Shelly Malkin is a dedicated environmentalist and outdoors woman whose passion for skiing and climbing has taken her around the world. The natural landscapes that she encounters provide inspiration for her large-scale watercolors, which sensitively combine mica and iridescent pigments to create sweeping panoramas that are both intimate and expansive. She also practices aerial silks which informs her sense of aerial perspective that she incorporates into her work.
“Her confident, large-scale watercolors offer a bold new interpretation of the American painting tradition that seeks to express a transcendental attachment to the sublime in nature,” says art historian Eileen Guggenheim.
Malkin’s work, with its interplay of memory and imagination, evokes the poetic clarity of Milton Avery and the spiritual atmosphere of J. M. W. Turner.
Raised in New York City, Malkin attended the Dalton School and Princeton University, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Art History. She later studied painting at the School of Visual Arts and the National Academy of Design under Serge Hollerbach, and later at Silvermine Arts Center and the Renaissance Workshop of Dmitri Wright.
Malkin has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions, including four solo shows at Graham Shay 1857 in New York City. She is represented by Graham Shay 1857 in New York City and by ARC Fine Art in Fairfield, Connecticut, and East Hampton, New York.
Malkin is an honorary trustee of the New York Restoration Project, an organization that collaborates with communities to build gardens and restore green spaces in New York City, and she serves on the education committee of the New York Botanical Garden. She also is an honorary trustee of the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she served on the board for twenty-one years. She currently serves on the advisory board of NYC Connect, an organization that partners with visionaries in New York City to address local community challenges and drive progress, and on the advisory council of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Malkin lives and works in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Aspen, Colorado.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AT GRAHAM SHAY 1857:
MIND JOURNEYS, 2013
OF PARADISE, STORMS, AND BUTTERFLIES, 2017
CLOUDS IN MY KARMA, 2021
REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST, 2025
THE ARTIST SKIING IN ASPEN COLORADO. Photo: Ilona Nemeth Quasha
SNOW CASTLES, 2020
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 22 X 30 IN, 55.9 X 76.2 CM
FIELDS OF SNOW, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 22 X 30 IN, 55.9 X 76.2 CM
TUMBLING TO THE SEA, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 22 X 30 IN, 55.9 X 76.2 CM
UNLIMITED SNOWFLAKES #1, 2024
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON JAPANESE WASHI PAPER, 38 ½ X 74 IN, 97.8 X 188 CM
COULOIRS OF CONSCIOUSNESS, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 42 X 60 IN, 106.7 X 152.4 CM
ROB ROY GLACIER, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 22 X 30 IN, 55.9 X 76.2 CM
REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 30 X 41 IN, 76.2 X 104.1 CM
HAZY SHADE OF WINTER, 2022
WATERCOLOR AND NATURAL MINERAL PIGMENTS ON PAPER, 19 X 22 IN, 48.3 X 55.9 CM
SNOWFLAKES, 2024
THE UNITED NATIONS HAS DECLARED 2025 AS THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF GLACIERS.
“PRESERVING OUR GLACIERS IS NOT JUST AN ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE—IT IS A SURVIVAL STRATEGY FOR BOTH PEOPLE AND THE PLANET.“
–KO BARRET, WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL
THANKS TO CAMERON SHAY
THANKS AND LOVE ALWAYS TO TONY, GEORGE, CAROLINE AND ANDREW
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REMEMBRANCE OF SNOWS PAST WATERCOLORS BY SHELLY MALKIN
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