SHEILA LANHAM

My work has evolved in the last couple of years from years of balancing forms relating to nature and a rearrangement of natural forms, and landscape elements .

I made an assessment of my own personal symbolic accumulation of forms: as a woman, through my history and experience in both life and art, and as a human being interacting with the environment. I feel a weight of imagery and forms in day to day life, especially since globalization.

I wanted to arrange my personal symbolic forms to make one cohesive whole form, as I had done previously with landscape elements. The newest paintings contain symbolic, monumental, personal mounds of fragmented forms that have accumulated in my subconscious. They can be specific-as in some Pop imagery (ie a rubber duck), to simple landscape, figurative and other forms.

I decided that I would layer some of the many “automatic quick sketches” that I make -