Sheila Metcalf Tobin, Monarch Moon (shipping size medium)
Monarch Moon, Mixed Media Drawing and Collage on panel with PhotoTex Wall Decals
32" H x 25" W x 1" D 16" diameter panel surrounded by PhotoTex wall decals
SHIPPING:
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Artist website: www.sheilametcalftobin.com
BIO
Sheila Metcalf Tobin is an artist who has spent her life in search of connection. As an only child and only grandchild she spent a lot of time exploring alone outside. As a very young girl, she stood in her great grandmother’s garden watching a Monarch butterfly gracefully flutter among the Phlox and Lantana flowers. The moment was filled with wonder and yearning, flooded with an awareness of feeling related to, in kinship with this creature so utterly different from herself. It was a knowing, she was discouraged to trust but it has remained a core experience that she draws upon heavily to navigate her life and work.
Sheila holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago but long before her formal education began she fell in love with the practice of drawing. The focus and attention required in observation based drawing cultivates connection between the drawer and the subject and opens the possibility of knowing akin to tenderly holding and touching, fostering both love and empathy. All of Sheila’s work begins with drawing as a process to explore and capture an encounter like the one in her great grandmother's garden. Her drawings expand into compositions on paper, wood panels and walls with the use of a variety of media, collage and decal installations that attempt to convey a deep love of the world and the beautiful complexity of the kinship we share with our wild counterparts. Sheila’s work has been exhibited nationally, internationally and locally in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and is included in many private collections.
STATEMENT
I have spent my life fascinated by and in search of connection. My work is centered on exploring the connections I see and feel between myself and our environment. It is an intrinsic element of my practice to walk and observe. In the last few years, as I labor to process personal experiences of loss, grief and sorrow, I look to the land and other beings for guidance and inspiration. I look up and down, out and in. I bring what transpires to the refuge of my studio and first through drawing and then collage commemorate the revelations of my encounters, orchestrating compositions that convey the beauty and complexity of humanity, our wild counterparts and the world we share. I recreate interactions both real and imagined to illustrate my own experiences of connection as well as my musings of how we might continue to evolve to more overtly display characteristics, abilities and behaviors of the beings that surround us.
My work is a culmination of years of pursuing drawing as a way to understand, connect and process intimate life experiences and represent relationships. When I was in graduate school, over 30 years ago, I began drawing on the walls and floor as a way to engage the space, as a way to infer the possibility that experiences are embedded in our bodies, our objects and our architecture. In my recent work I am using wall and floor decals to extend the imagery from the drawings on wood panels depicting people, plants and animals. The decals reach outward along the surfaces of the wall and floor and often towards other works to create conversations between them, to tell stories about their relationship to each other, to show that they are, indeed we are, both connected and related.
Monarch Moon, Mixed Media Drawing and Collage on panel with PhotoTex Wall Decals
32" H x 25" W x 1" D 16" diameter panel surrounded by PhotoTex wall decals
SHIPPING:
For online purchases, at checkout, select the shipping size in the shipping menu that is the same as what is listed in the title of the artwork (example: Shipping Size Small, or Shipping Size Ex Large). You can find this next to the title of the artwork at checkout (in parenthesis).
Note: for online purchases/checkout, we only ship within the continental US (Alaska and Hawaii excluded). If you need additional assistance, international or HI or AK shipping, please email us at Jen@JenTough.gallery and we will handle purchase and shipping costs via email.
____________
Artist website: www.sheilametcalftobin.com
BIO
Sheila Metcalf Tobin is an artist who has spent her life in search of connection. As an only child and only grandchild she spent a lot of time exploring alone outside. As a very young girl, she stood in her great grandmother’s garden watching a Monarch butterfly gracefully flutter among the Phlox and Lantana flowers. The moment was filled with wonder and yearning, flooded with an awareness of feeling related to, in kinship with this creature so utterly different from herself. It was a knowing, she was discouraged to trust but it has remained a core experience that she draws upon heavily to navigate her life and work.
Sheila holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago but long before her formal education began she fell in love with the practice of drawing. The focus and attention required in observation based drawing cultivates connection between the drawer and the subject and opens the possibility of knowing akin to tenderly holding and touching, fostering both love and empathy. All of Sheila’s work begins with drawing as a process to explore and capture an encounter like the one in her great grandmother's garden. Her drawings expand into compositions on paper, wood panels and walls with the use of a variety of media, collage and decal installations that attempt to convey a deep love of the world and the beautiful complexity of the kinship we share with our wild counterparts. Sheila’s work has been exhibited nationally, internationally and locally in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and is included in many private collections.
STATEMENT
I have spent my life fascinated by and in search of connection. My work is centered on exploring the connections I see and feel between myself and our environment. It is an intrinsic element of my practice to walk and observe. In the last few years, as I labor to process personal experiences of loss, grief and sorrow, I look to the land and other beings for guidance and inspiration. I look up and down, out and in. I bring what transpires to the refuge of my studio and first through drawing and then collage commemorate the revelations of my encounters, orchestrating compositions that convey the beauty and complexity of humanity, our wild counterparts and the world we share. I recreate interactions both real and imagined to illustrate my own experiences of connection as well as my musings of how we might continue to evolve to more overtly display characteristics, abilities and behaviors of the beings that surround us.
My work is a culmination of years of pursuing drawing as a way to understand, connect and process intimate life experiences and represent relationships. When I was in graduate school, over 30 years ago, I began drawing on the walls and floor as a way to engage the space, as a way to infer the possibility that experiences are embedded in our bodies, our objects and our architecture. In my recent work I am using wall and floor decals to extend the imagery from the drawings on wood panels depicting people, plants and animals. The decals reach outward along the surfaces of the wall and floor and often towards other works to create conversations between them, to tell stories about their relationship to each other, to show that they are, indeed we are, both connected and related.
Monarch Moon, Mixed Media Drawing and Collage on panel with PhotoTex Wall Decals
32" H x 25" W x 1" D 16" diameter panel surrounded by PhotoTex wall decals
SHIPPING:
For online purchases, at checkout, select the shipping size in the shipping menu that is the same as what is listed in the title of the artwork (example: Shipping Size Small, or Shipping Size Ex Large). You can find this next to the title of the artwork at checkout (in parenthesis).
Note: for online purchases/checkout, we only ship within the continental US (Alaska and Hawaii excluded). If you need additional assistance, international or HI or AK shipping, please email us at Jen@JenTough.gallery and we will handle purchase and shipping costs via email.
____________
Artist website: www.sheilametcalftobin.com
BIO
Sheila Metcalf Tobin is an artist who has spent her life in search of connection. As an only child and only grandchild she spent a lot of time exploring alone outside. As a very young girl, she stood in her great grandmother’s garden watching a Monarch butterfly gracefully flutter among the Phlox and Lantana flowers. The moment was filled with wonder and yearning, flooded with an awareness of feeling related to, in kinship with this creature so utterly different from herself. It was a knowing, she was discouraged to trust but it has remained a core experience that she draws upon heavily to navigate her life and work.
Sheila holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago but long before her formal education began she fell in love with the practice of drawing. The focus and attention required in observation based drawing cultivates connection between the drawer and the subject and opens the possibility of knowing akin to tenderly holding and touching, fostering both love and empathy. All of Sheila’s work begins with drawing as a process to explore and capture an encounter like the one in her great grandmother's garden. Her drawings expand into compositions on paper, wood panels and walls with the use of a variety of media, collage and decal installations that attempt to convey a deep love of the world and the beautiful complexity of the kinship we share with our wild counterparts. Sheila’s work has been exhibited nationally, internationally and locally in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and is included in many private collections.
STATEMENT
I have spent my life fascinated by and in search of connection. My work is centered on exploring the connections I see and feel between myself and our environment. It is an intrinsic element of my practice to walk and observe. In the last few years, as I labor to process personal experiences of loss, grief and sorrow, I look to the land and other beings for guidance and inspiration. I look up and down, out and in. I bring what transpires to the refuge of my studio and first through drawing and then collage commemorate the revelations of my encounters, orchestrating compositions that convey the beauty and complexity of humanity, our wild counterparts and the world we share. I recreate interactions both real and imagined to illustrate my own experiences of connection as well as my musings of how we might continue to evolve to more overtly display characteristics, abilities and behaviors of the beings that surround us.
My work is a culmination of years of pursuing drawing as a way to understand, connect and process intimate life experiences and represent relationships. When I was in graduate school, over 30 years ago, I began drawing on the walls and floor as a way to engage the space, as a way to infer the possibility that experiences are embedded in our bodies, our objects and our architecture. In my recent work I am using wall and floor decals to extend the imagery from the drawings on wood panels depicting people, plants and animals. The decals reach outward along the surfaces of the wall and floor and often towards other works to create conversations between them, to tell stories about their relationship to each other, to show that they are, indeed we are, both connected and related.
