Shelley Lazarus is a Los Angeles based artist, where she has been teaching different water media classes for over 26 years. Her main goal as an artist is to bring a sense of movement and emotion through the use of color. Although mostly known for her watercolors she is not a purist and has no trouble adding graphite, acrylics or collage materials to find nuances from the work before her.
Lazarus was one of the first founding members of TAG Gallery in 1993 and has served on its board ever since. Her paintings have been hung at the Los Angeles Olympics, Springfield Museum of Art, and Video Age Magazine.
From early on, Lazarus began her art career while still in high school by attending classes at Pratt College in Brooklyn. Arriving in Los Angeles in 1973 she became involved with the Brentwood Art Center,
