Sheila Benow Portfolio

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The Woodstock Press writes of Sheila Benow:

It is only necessary to observe her work to realize that Sheila Benow’s success in Europe is founded on her genuine talents. Her landscapes are superlatively lovely. Many of her etchings, some unusually textured, are miniature yet give the eye a sense of vast expanse. It’s an incredible feat, but it stems from her intensely moving preoccupation with nature in all its myriad forms and moods. Today her work is muted and invokes through delicacy of tints, results that dazzle the eye. Her landscapes appear to transfigure matter into poetry. Her etchings attest to the enormous skill she has acquired in this medium, a medium that gives her the opportunity to express with greater strength the depiction of landscape while retaining an evanescent beauty. The renown she received in the last years she has lived and worked in Germany is phenomenal. That her work merits the highest encomiums, that it bears all the rare imprint of genius, that its appeal is immediately and profoundly moving, are beyond doubt. Nevertheless for an unknown American to break down the barriers of language in an alien land, and achieve such spectacular recognition, is a triumph infrequently enjoyed.