Time has always been a very important aspect of my work. It affects both our inner and outer landscape. How time alters our memories through our reaction to our experiences and provides each one of us with our own unique reality. So too the landscape through the seasons, erosion, climatic events, and man's hand, is constantly in flux, presenting us with new truths.
My preoccupation with time as process is present in the construction of my work as well as the concept. Each experience be it organic or constructed, leaves its mark. As a whole or in fragments, some times less defined than others, but always affecting what comes next. The use of clear thick coats of resin allows for a cataloguing of time and the change that it brings within each piece. It is change formed by time that creates the mystery within each one of us, and it is change that keeps us in perpetual awe of the landscape.

I see these new paintings as meditative, textured reactions to the landscape. I am more interested in an intimate spiritual experience. My focus lies in trying to capture the pulse of a place, rather than its mere appearance.

I am drawn to the subdued pallet of its quite stillness, its deepest darkest corners, the scars of nature's cruel brutality, and its unbearable beauty. In this aspect I feel my work is very much rooted in the European Romantic tradition.

-Sheila Giolitti