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Sheila Wolk |
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“Art has to touch you
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Field Of Dreams |
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Sheila Wolk is one of the
nation's most accomplished sports artists who has turned the
soft-edged medium of pastels into paintings of the hard action
of sports. For her work in the sporting arena the American Sport
Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) awarded her with its Sport
Artist of the Year Award 1987.
Her transition into the land of fantasy happened slowly, but
once Sheila decided to change her focus the result was
sensational. Sheila Wolk blends techniques to create a stirring
glimpse into the magical world we live in – its lore, its myths
and its legends.
“Art has to touch you somewhere,” says Wolk, explaining her new
direction in art.
Indeed, her art is created in a mystical realm where logic,
dreams and art meet and mix to create a dreamscape of enchanting
beauty and fabled majesty. She fuses traditional and
non-conventional means to convey the visions, dreams and
realities of a world many wish they could see outside of her
paintings. Sheila combines her creative talent and imagination
to accurately interpret and artistically communicate elaborate
notions in an easy to understand and visually appealing fashion.
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And while she may be taking until
the mythical world of mermaids and fairies these are not the
carefree sirens or caricatures of popular culture. With Wolk’s
always superb skill of depicting the human form, the mermaids
and fairies seem to be of flesh and blood, yet with a
pre-Raphaelite otherworldliness. At the centre of many pieces is
a pensiveness that draws one deep into the psyche of a being who
has seen the world as it really is and yearns for sanctuary. In
these works of surface whimsicality a sense of profound
reclusion and peace pervades.
Deeply moved viewers have responded by once again putting the
works of Sheila Wolk in great demand.
The mature Wolk takes her new success in stride. “I once painted
sports to survive but now I paint for the survival of my soul.”
Wolk resides in New York City where she continues to capture the
action of sport and the drama, intensity, power and grace that
surrounds it with her pastels and lithographs.
©2007 Sheila Wolk/Applejack Art
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