Love Via Post, a postcard project

Art sent to your door 💌

A direct action gifting project that both endeavors to disrupt and circumnavigate the culture of the commodification of the art object and also acts as a series of small acts of love.

To receive a one-of-a-kind artwork in the mail: 
DM on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveviapost/
(or send an email to shelleychamberlinart@gmail.com, subject line: Love Via Post)
with name and address (yours, or a friend’s)

Totally free. No strings.
The only request is that you may be willing to lend them back for a potential exhibition in the future.

This postcard project fades in and out of the spotlight of my attention. But I continue. There’s something about this kind of pacing that feels right these days. Postcard number 39 is built from an eyes-closed ballpoint pen drawing, finished wi
Narrative loops, letter-writing, found poetry, and the figure. This piece could double as an illustrated artist statement. Our family or saving or […] Postcard number 38 #loveviapost #💌 #thefigure #relationality #letterwriting #foundpoet
There is something so renewing about fresh streams flowing from old rivers. I’ve been sorting through some early works, both for a studio flash sale (check current stories @shelleychamberlinart) and in preparation for my upcoming artist resid
Did you forget I was still doing this postcard project?? Me too! Postcard number 35. My favorite part is that curtain reflection in the night window. #loveviapost #💌 #inkonpaper #watermedia
Watery spring sunlight glancing through branches. Painted on the equinox. The video this is drawn from is on my main page @shelleychamberlinart if you want to glimpse the source. Postcard 34 is on its way to you 💌 #loveviapost #💌 #mailart #ink #dr
Because we could all use a little piece of the sky 💫 Postcard number 33 #loveviapost #💌 #inkonpaper #skyline #landscape #mailart #usps
These watery blues, liquid lavenders, and shocks of pink and orange live in my dreams. Postcard number 32 #loveviapost #💌 #watercolor #pacificocean #sunset #giftingaspraxis #postcard #mailart
Do you ever just want to sail off into the clouds? Postcard number 31 #loveviapost #💌 #mailart #postcards #collage #usps #silhouettes #sailing #seaandsky
Postcard Number 30. These postcards are always a gift of a little bit of myself going out to you... This one maybe a little bit more straightforwardly so. This self-portrait is an exploration in letting the medium (ink) do its thing. Allowing the ink
The world feels so immeasurably full of pain and despair right now. All the edges are spilling out. Politics and governance are how we live our love and our values in public, how we love each other, how we love ourselves, and there are so many ways w
💫Celestial Orb 💫 Postcard number 28 bronze ink and micron pen on bristol ✨ ✨ #loveviapost #micronpen #bronzeink #drawing #portlandartist #pdxart #pacificnorthwest #travelsketching #💌
Postcard number 27 is a portrait of and for someone I love so very much. ✨Aunt Pam, Chasing the Birds, Christmas 2013✨ I remember this moment so clearly, so precisely and incisively. There is immeasurable love and hope and sorrow and gratitude wrappe
Am I maybe channeling Ida Applebroog a bit with this postcard? (I do love her!) Stacked and layered figures and silhouettes. I can’t resist an image that references story or narrative or relationship, but doesn’t give it all away. This is
I made this postcard on my birthday. It was the end of August. I was sitting at the bar in my hometown, drawing and reminiscing and contemplating the crossing over between my thirties and the decade that was now upon me. It was to be a gift for you,
I’ve been obsessed with blind memory drawings all year. First they were little secrets tucked into my sketchbook, then slowly they demanded to become more of a THING. Just recently, they’ve been transforming into large watercolors (see mo
✨Cardboard Bird on a Cardboard Lion✨ In my drawing classes, one of the first exercises we do is build cardboard sculptures and draw blind contour drawings (where you look closely at your subject, but never at your paper) of them in crayon. The homewo
Years ago, I remember spending hours in an airport, watching folks come and go. I passed the time drawing silhouettes, noting how things gapped and converged, the spaces between us, the places where it all overlapped. Postcard 22 is a similar exercis
“It is we who are passing when we say time passes” Henri Bergson✨ ✨ I’ve been having conversations about the personal histories and evolutions of an art practice, the nature of keepsakes and the meaning we ascribe to objects. I fou
It feels like a story to me, these figures moving in and out and through abstracted landscapes. I am both in love and uneasy with this kind of unfolding—the way one never knows exactly how it’s going to play out. It’s a practice of