Dee Shippelhute was born in Brooklyn,  New York in 1954. Her Mother and Father passed in 1959, she was raised in Western Massachusetts by her maternal grandmother along with her four siblings.  

After high school her fascination for creativity steered her into Cosmetology School.  She married, raised a family and worked as a Cosmetologist for several years.  Later, she became divorced, returned to school, remarried, raised a second family and worked in health care as a Manager for an Obstetrician and later for a Hospital. 

She took evening classes at Holyoke Community College and Westfield State College until she moved to Cape Cod in 2001, following her second divorce.   She studied Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and took instruction from local Cape Cod Artists.  

Because of her passion for Art and the work of Master Artists she studied them intensively.  Her major influences have been Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Hans Hofmann, Wassily Kandinsky, Vincent Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo. 

Dee’s medium of choice is dictated through a zest for originality along with exposure to the art of different cultures.  Her love of texture and depth and expression of space is channeled into a balance of color that is essentially an exploration and a meditation. 

Her plan is to travel and live in different countries so that she and her art can be influenced further and evolve positively.