ABOUT sheilagh

Sheilagh Head studied painting and sculpture in Italy at The Accademia de Belle Arte in Perugia before turning to England to complete her education at The Manchester College of Art.

 

Widely acknowledged as one of Bermuda’s leading landscape painters, Sheilagh is continually absorbed in capturing the transient and unique quality of the island’s light and colours.  Whether she is painting her beloved South Shore, or the extraordinary vernacular of Bermuda’s architecture, her paintings are more concerned with the “spirit and memory”, rather than the figurative reality of what is before her.

Sheilagh’s work has been shown in London, New York and Boston.  In Boston she is an elected member of The Copley Society, an organization of some six hundred professional artists drawn from all over the United States.  The Galleries are known to have shown work by Whistler, John Singer Sargeant as well as Monet.

 

Recently Sheilagh was a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to art in Bermuda.  She was also part of the steering committee for the Bermuda National Gallery and served as a VP under many Presidents of the Bermuda Society of Arts.

 

Sheilagh, along with two other artists, was largely responsible for the start-up and creation of the Plein Air group in Bermuda which is a very active group of artists of which she is still a member and paints most weekends with the group.

 

For a number of years Sheilagh enjoyed owning and operating the very successful Windjammer 2 Gallery in the Hamilton Princess Hotel, until renovations changed the concept of shops in the hotel.

 

Sheilagh, a Bermudian, is represented in many corporate as well as private collections, both in Bermuda and overseas.  She states that her paintings are still about the land and sea that surround us, but that they are also an attempt to record Bermuda’s precious and vanishing beauty.