Shirley Vauvelle is an established mixed media maker, her practise encompasses playful ceramic component pieces combined with found materials. Hand built stoneware sculptural forms with removable inserts . Botanical wall hung ceramic pieces using materials collected from her extensive garden and layered, textured paintings in mixed media on canvas or board .

Shirley's art education background and initial design career was in textile/surface decoration. Self taught in ceramics, recently her work has become semi abstract and larger in scale and concentrates on form and surface qualities, inspired by emotion induced by particular landscapes. Her work is shown in galleries across Britain.