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My art work displays, on canvas and in public, a part of my deep and sometimes demented soul, my turbulently flowing flood of emotions - raw in rough form. I paint with fiery passion providing me with an outlet to express my inner being which I am unable to do with the written word.

At the time of creation, each piece represents my dance with nature, frozen-in-time, and the way in which I was softly caressed by inspiration. "In The Moment" is the deep relationship I strive to paint and the relationship I offer the viewer to experience.

When admiring an oil painting I am the most excited about how the bold, deep flowing brush strokes of colour (impasto textures) have a soul existence and are the brain of the painting that speaks to me to convey the emotions of the displayed subject.

I've experienced melting into colours and feeling the loneliness of viridian green, the waving and upset alizarin crimson, the throbbing energetic lemon yellow and the love and caring traits of phthalo blue. My art is not unlike a performance of the universal language - music.

I hope you, the viewer, enjoy my interpretations of nature and are touched in some way by my work by connecting with the feelings and senses it produces within yourself.

~ Sheila Szabototh

How I Paint ~ I love to violently brush and palette knife the paint onto the canvas. Leaving the undercoat of paint to show though into the finished painting can dramatically add depth and interest. Impasto painting, dry smudging, glazing and manipulating the paint any way I can think of are fun ways to express my emotions about a subject. I experiment with different techniques and ideas especially if I'm told I "can't do that!" I have a free-minded/stubborn way of expressing myself. I do not always mix colours on a palette as I often find mixing on the canvas creates more character to a painting. Paint from your soul -- any way it comes out! That is what individual creativity is all about and I'm having a great time doing it!

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