Please enjoy this portfolio of digital art, photography and fine art paintings and drawings.
A selection of Archival Art Prints are available for purchase. Contact Sheila Wood for details.
A selection of Archival Art Prints are available for purchase. Contact Sheila Wood for details.
Artist Statement - Digital Photo Art and Fine Art Painting
Industrial Photo Art
My Industrial Photo Art, Series 1 reflects my environmental concerns. I love the shapes of industry, its pipes, platforms, smoke and steel, and of course some of its products. Behind industries beauty and power is the need to change those things that bring the disasters of climate change and world turbulence ever closer.
Blending multiple photos, I want to express these contradictory feelings and hope to engage thought around our dilemma: energy, consumption and climate change.
Photos of abstract markings combine with the reality of industries machinery. The ideas of conflict, simplicity and humor play a part in my intuitive process. On Sunday adventures, I photograph power plants through chain-linked fences, then digitally composite these photos with those of walls, markings and colors.
Series 2 repeatedly uses just two photos of local industry, then composites them with textures and color - as a painter might. I do like to play with images, to be expressive and find their mystery. Painters such as Brice Marden, Agnus Martin, Sergej Jensen and Adam Basanta have influenced my work and the use of color fields.
Series 3 composites photos to reflect on missing sand, abundance of waste, over usage of electrical power and soil damage. Intuitive play and my concern for the earth help create these images.
Printing my photo composites on an Epson ink jet printer is one presentation way, but I also am working on projecting enlarged images digitally.
Blending multiple photos, I want to express these contradictory feelings and hope to engage thought around our dilemma: energy, consumption and climate change.
Photos of abstract markings combine with the reality of industries machinery. The ideas of conflict, simplicity and humor play a part in my intuitive process. On Sunday adventures, I photograph power plants through chain-linked fences, then digitally composite these photos with those of walls, markings and colors.
Series 2 repeatedly uses just two photos of local industry, then composites them with textures and color - as a painter might. I do like to play with images, to be expressive and find their mystery. Painters such as Brice Marden, Agnus Martin, Sergej Jensen and Adam Basanta have influenced my work and the use of color fields.
Series 3 composites photos to reflect on missing sand, abundance of waste, over usage of electrical power and soil damage. Intuitive play and my concern for the earth help create these images.
Printing my photo composites on an Epson ink jet printer is one presentation way, but I also am working on projecting enlarged images digitally.
Art in Our Time of Conflict
Originally from Chicago, my studio is now in the Bay Area. I studied painting at CA Arts & Crafts and digital disciplines at 2 colleges; the Multimedia Studies Program at Marin College and digital art and large-scale printing at Berkeley College. I previously exhibited paintings on the West Coast and have recently shown at the LA Center for Digital Arts.
Minimal Photography
I look for a place of quiet, the smallest slice, a piece of geometry, patterns, textures, or a splash of light. I find these on the street, in a window, in shadows, on garbage cans or garage doors, in old factories or security gates. Here, I don’t need to see the world’s problems or a neighbor’s drama. I do see beauty in the simple and unadorned. My minimal photography is a counter to my industrial series and allows me to enjoy my own quite place.
Painting & Drawing
Small scale figure quick studies allowed my brush to lead the way, not my mind. Larger acrylic figure paintings often started with a vague idea or just charcoal lines. Meaning, feelings, with a touch of surreal were all part of my spontaneous, intuitive approach. The series Jars & Jugs was a way to use the same subject in multiple styles.