SHANDA FLETCHER

I’m a visual artist native to Amarillo, Texas, working across painting, drawing, design, and large-scale murals. For over 20 years, I’ve been creating and selling work that explores the human figure in candid, unaltered states, moments where honesty surfaces without effort. For the past decade, I’ve also worked professionally in the mural industry, bringing these ideas into public spaces on a larger scale.

 

I am also the cofounder and project director of Blank Spaces Murals, a public arts internship program for high school and college-aged students. Through this work, I help young artists find their voice, gain professional experience, and contribute meaningfully to their communities through public art.

 

My practice is rooted in interpreting verses, song lyrics, poems, fragments of text and translating them into visual language. I build compositions that blend realism with graphic elements and intentional color palettes, using each medium as a tool to reimagine written meaning. Color becomes a voice, and each line or form, a phrase in a broader conversation.

 

I want my audience to recognize candid beauty, explore layered interpretations, and feel a sense of curiosity for what’s to come. My work is a dialogue between image and word, restraint and boldness, the seen and the felt.