Artist's Background Statement

Sheila Letven is a multi media artist who welcomes the complexities of new and different media. She enjoys painting in oils and often merges her paintings with three dimensional structures.  Although she sometimes uses found objects, she usually crafts or sculpts whatever is needed.

Oil paintings with images spilling out over hand crafted frames led her to find a new way to treat surface and enter another dimension.  Using boxes with doors allowed for hidden possibilities to emerge and this process suggested sculpting tiny monumental animals and people.  Letven is also involved with photography, creating her own world of slightly off center visions.

Nature and the every day objects of our life are nothing new, still they constitute the source of inspiration for this artist.

Sheila Letven attended The University of The Arts and graduated from Moore College of Art on a four year Board of Education scholarship from Philadelphia , Pa. She worked in New York as a fabric designer, and free lanced designing greeting cards.  Settling in Philadelphia she ran her own design studio.   In 1975 she turned all her energy to fine art and has been working and exhibiting ever since.