Sheila Finch is an award-winning artist whose paintings of have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout Europe and the United States. Her art has received acknowledgment from the National Arts Appreciation Program, and she was allowed to show her art at show of work at Bateau Lavior in Paris. Gold River Scene Magazine has documented Sheila’s success in the fine arts over the years from 1997. These include the cover feature, the “Art and The Passion for Collecting,” and “Sheila Finch, An Appreciation in the winter of 1998 cover, and most recently “The Art of Sheila Finch Revisited” in the Fall cover feature of 2002. Her art “Strands of Gold” appears on cover of the book The Land's Wild Music: Encounters with Peter Matthiessen, Barry Lopez, James Galvin, &Terry Tempest Williams by Mark Tredinnick.
Sheila spends many hours studying clouds from her sailboat in her cockpit - in the south San Francisco Bay. She’s drawn to the grace and strength of the sea and land... to the rightness. Her latest pieces of artwork are captured instances of large quiet places. Sheila’s goal is to create, for a spiritual moment in time, a visual memory that never fades away... a timeless and enduring connection with this dear world in which we live. In the morning hours, she’s frequently blessed with light streams of warm sunrise. She says that storms also create beautiful displays of light for her that shimmer off the coastal mountain range or stream across the salt flats.
