Sheila Atchley makes beauty for your heart and your home — through paint, through words, and through the stubborn conviction that beauty is a practice.
FOR SHEILA ATCHLEY,
it all begins with an idea.
And then, she has to make. When the making involves a large, commissioned canvas, or a page in her smallest art journal, she picks up the paintbrush. When the making involves writing a blog post or book proposal, a caption or a class, she picks up the pen.
Regardless of the medium - words or art - it is important to Sheila to create legacy.
Through her work, she invites readers and viewers to reflect on their own stories. Each essay and each canvas serves as a mirror, reflecting the wonder of our connection with God and with one another. In a culture that shares mostly its curated “perfection”, Sheila’s art, with its history of marks called palimpsest, can shift the atmosphere of a space, just by being there.
This artist will remind you that your vulnerabilities are what make you interesting.
She hopes that her work evokes a sense of connection to heavenly realities. In a world that elevates either artificial perfection or a sense of sameness in even so-called “elevated” design, her art insists that beauty is a practice - not a purchase.
Join her on her late-midlife artistic path, and celebrate the beauty of ordinary life.
Sheila anticipates you discovering of something of your own identity in her work, because art can resonate. When beauty calls, beauty answers. Sheila often says “you are an unrepeatable, eternal spirit, inside a human body - and your experiences are worth celebrating.” She hopes you’ll explore further.