Advocacy Through Art Stephen Shortt illustrates the profession By Maria DiDanieli Ivy Column “P 8 • CANADIAN CHIROPRACTOR |FEBRUARY 2008 art of the healing process is aesthetics – art has healing power.” An eclectic blend of linguistic accents – the result of residing in various countries – form the cadence with which Stephen Shortt explains his reasoning for creating paintings that represent various healing arts. He is not a chiropractor. But every stroke of his brush honours the healers who have touched his life and pays homage to the magnifi cent splendour that he perceives in the anatomical structures of man and the shapes within nature. Shortt’s work has been featured at exhibitions around the world. Each show that he presents is a public pronouncement for the power of chiropractic; each painting is an effi gy of the power of the body’s natural ability to achieve healing. Stephen Shortt was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He studied art in London, Eng- land, at the Chelsea School of Art, but, as he tells Canadian Chiropractor, with his usual unassuming composure, creating art has always been an important part of his life. Shortt immigrated to Canada in 1974. Currently based in a loft in Montreal’s St. Laurent district, Shortt is surrounded by the fruits of many years of labour as an www.canadianchiropractor.ca feature Photo credits to Jade Morin at photosynthese
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