My paintings are not minimal, but they do compress into personal symbols of reality. I have no particular method for creating a painting except that I start with rudimentary forms, or doodles, that seem to evolve. Inanimate objects become anthropomorphic. I have no idea why this is so, but I trust that they validate the human condition. And they are beautiful.
Bones represent our core, our alignment, our support system.
THey recall our humaness. The bone, on a monumental scale, represents our strength, our structural integrity. I like the ambiguity, the fact that otherforms can be found in some of my sculptures. Keefe has exhibited widely and her works are found in chapels, as well as more traditional collection sites. Sheila Keefe's works bring a freshness of religious vision to an ancient subject and also reveal the imagery of Eastern philosophies.