Sheena was at Liverpool College of Art completing 4 years studying Graphic Design.
The following ten years she worked in York as a Freelance Artist and Archaeological Illustrator for the York Archaeological Trust.
© Sheena W Howarth
Sheena was at Liverpool College of Art completing 4 years studying Graphic Design.
The following ten years she worked in York as a Freelance Artist and Archaeological Illustrator for the York Archaeological Trust.
Sheena recently decided to change the direction of her artwork style – no explanation – it just evolved!
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Gouache on Paper size 33 x 24cms
Acrylic on Board. size 8 x 24cms
Acrylic on Board 24 x 30 cms
Gouache on Paper. size 35 x 30cms Sold
Acrylic on Board size 24 x 30cms
Acrylic on Board size 24 x 30cms
Acrylic on board size 24 x 30cms
Sheena is very dedicated to environmental causes and the present problems with Climate Change. As things hot up metaphorically as well as literally, she hopes to be able to continue this theme as an important part of her artwork.
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Ink on board size 60 x 35cms
Ink on board size 30 x 45cms
Ink on paper Size 40 x 25cms
Ink on paper size 30 x 15cms
Ink on board size 55 x 40cms
Through working in Archaeology, Sheena has had the unusual experience of handling and drawing hundreds of ancient objects. “I drew everything from Bronze Age brooches to Iron-Age glass beads, from Roman gold earrings, Saxon coffin lids, Viking shoes and buckets, to Medieval garnet rings and pottery. Plus many, many drawings of flints!” She was also able to do some design work on the archaeological theme and designed a poster ‘The Ages of York’ which sold for many years.
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Ink on paper This image is not in the possession of the artist and belongs to YAT.
Black ink on card size 18 x 14cms
Ink on paper illustration not in the artists possession. For the Yorkshire Museum.
Coloured inks on card size 8 x 12cms
printed for sale size 70 x 45cms
Ink on paper size 30 x 20cms
Ink on paper. Illustration not in artists possession. For YAT.
Ink on paper size 30 x 20cms
Ink on paper size 30 x 20cms
Over a period of 25 years Sheena has been involved in 12 expeditions to Belize in Central America recording artifacts from the Maya period. She enjoyed these digs immensely, working in the jungle as part of a team of professionals for months on end in very primitive circumstances. One of her most treasured memories is of spending a week recording 4 Mayan stelae in situ just discovered in Southern Belize. "Working in the same area over a period from 1973 to 2000 sadly we were able to see the jungle environment change beyond recognition. From the lush exotic growth of a healthy forest cover full of spider monkeys, parrots and enormous butterflies, year by year it was cut down for cattle pasture and of course the ecosystem totally changed. Maybe this is similar to what happened in the Mayan collapse in the 9th century AD.
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Ink on drawing film. Example of archaeoligical technical drawing, not in possession of the artist.
Watercolour on paper size 28 x 38cms
Pen and Ink on drawing film. (stela size 1.9m x 3.9m) drawing not in artists possession
Pen & Ink on Drawing film. ( size of stela 1.54m x 4.32m ) original drawing not in possession of the artist.
Pen & Ink on paper size 34 x 20cms
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Sheena was lucky enough to work in Pompeii as part of the 'Pompeii Project'. She spent 6 seasons helping to record a complete 'Insula' and doing detailed scale drawings of wall plaster frescoes from the House of the Menander. "It was a wonderful experience to work inside almost complete Roman buildings, walking barefoot on mosaics and gazing at wall-plaster all day. While working there I became fascinated by groups of amphorae that stood in the corners of some rooms. Over the years these were moved about and changed, often overgrown with weeds and then tidied up. I took many photos and made some paintings of these groups of pots 'talking' to each other.
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Watercolour on paper size 28 x 36cms
Watercolour on paper size 35 x 45cms Sold
Watercolour on paper size 35 x 28cms
Watercolour on paper size 35 x 40cms
Watercolour on paper size 38 x 50cms
Watercolour on paper size 28 x 42cms
Watercolour on paper size 28 x 38cms
watercolour on paper size 27 x 27cms
Watercolour on paper size 35 x 25cms
Watercolour on paper size 25 x 28cms
Watercolour on paper size 25 x 20cms
In 1987, Sheena went to America to live on a cattle ranch in central Texas near a place called Rosebud. She helped look after a herd of cattle, helped to build two homes, farmed pecan trees, drove a tractor and ran a large garden using Permaculture techniques. In between all that work Sheena was able to begin a new style of art, encouraged by a painting commission for a bank in Rosebud on the theme of 'community'. This started a group of paintings in the style of 'Cityscape' " I did a whole series of these paintings as private commissions for individuals, hospitals, schools and restaurants for a number of years and had several exhibitions. I enjoyed doing these detailed paintings, but they were very labour intensive and all around me I could see artists doing work that obviously didn't take much time, but sold well and so this style of mine soon came to and end ! "
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Oil on board size 100 x 40cms Sold
Oil and Acrylic on board size 90 x 60cms Sold
" Having lived in America for so many years, I was greatly influenced by the brilliant blue skies of Texas and the lovely calming atmosphere of Connecticut. These elements crept into my paintings and returning to England also into my attempts at paintings here. So to replace the gloomy skies of England with a perpetual calming blue really cheers one up ! "
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Acrylic on canvas, with Dutch Gold surround size 120 x 100cms
Oil on canvas size 100 x 50cms Sold
After moving to Connecticut and being thoroughly adjusted to the American way of life and really enjoying being in Connecticut, Sheena unexpectedly returned to England in 2007, which was somewhat of a shock. " Now adjusted back to life in England !... I have a studio in which to work and the time and space to create. This has given me the freedom to experiment. I can apply the dictum that, if you are going to experiment, you must expect failure and through failure comes progress and something new happens. Hence my NEW style, which takes us back to the beginning of this website. I am thinking now that the joy and warmth and lively energy of living in America must have left its mark on my present work "
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Pencil on paper size 60cms x 40cms
Gouache on Paper size 36 x 44cms
Pen and Ink on paper size 60 x 25cms
Ink on Paper size 15 x 15cms
Watercolour & Pencil on paper size 40 x 28cms
Crayon, pencil & watercolour on paper size 28 x 28cms
If you would like to contact Sheena about her work or to commission a painting, please contact this e-mail and we will reply a soon as possible.
Email: sheena@sheenahowarth.com