Downtown Scottsdale fine art gallery, Gallery Andrea, is exhibiting two artists’ work through the end of September: abstract works by artist Shalome Patrick, and a collection of ballerina paintings by Julee Du Plessis.

Ms. Patrick is an artist who loves to express herself on canvas with perplexing images and storytelling, according to a press release.

She invites the viewer to look and try to figure out what the imagery in the painting represents.

“Music has always created visuals in my mind, it is at the heart of my work,” Ms. Patrick said in a prepared statement. “The beat, the words, the notes. It picks the colors and the textures that start the pieces and keeps the paint flowing to the end.”

Ms. Patick has shown her work internationally and brings a worldly perspective to her art, the press release stated. She enjoys giving back to the local community, and recently did a live painting event for the American Heart Association.

Ms. Patrick says she believes she can make a difference with art.

“My work signifies love, lust, passion, loneliness, fear, movement, texture,” she said in the prepared statement. “All descriptive and all fit what represents me.”