Meet the Artist Shirley Babcock


	Shirley Babcock was born in British Columbia. She lived throughout BC from Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Cariboo, Okanagan, Central BC and Northern BC. She attended approximately a dozen different schools, then attended College earning her diploma in "Computer Information Systems" Since then she worked for Government, Educational, Corporate, Private and Non-profit Organizations along with owning her own business.
	Shirley became interested in Art after researching the history and culture of her ancestors through books, museums, websites and relatives. She has memories of visiting her grandparents, aunt and uncle taking a little ferry to Quadra Island. They would go salal and berry picking. Walk the beaches collecting oysters and clams. They would smoke salmon and put them into jars or dry them out. Also making whooshum berry home made ice-cream and (ughh) taking cod liver oil daily.
Although Shirley created her own style using variations, she uses the basic forms passed down through generations of her ancestors of the Mid Coast Art Style.