Sheila Tintera | WILD LANDS: Painting Nature in the Tetons

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Sheila Tintera
Center Theater Gallery

Long considered a local favorite, the Palates & Palettes gallery walk is a highlight of the Jackson Hole art calendar and a signature event of the Fall Arts Festival. Palates & Palettes offers attendees the chance to immerse themselves in the beauty and creativity of the region’s art scene while enjoying the hospitality of local galleries. It’s an excellent opportunity to discover new artists, be inspired by innovative works, and connect with the vibrant cultural community of Jackson Hole.

Sheila Tintera is originally from the Eastern United States. Ms. Tintera was educated at Massachusetts College of Art, Southern Connecticut State University and the Art Students League where she studied Painting and Printmaking. She has been influenced by a range of artists from Giotto, Van Gogh, Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints, Bonnard, O’Keefe, Milton Avery and many other mid-20th Century American painters.

The move to Wyoming 12 years ago opened up a new and expressive vista so different from the views in the East Coast. Seeing the open sky, majestic views of the land, high altitude flora and fauna (including bison), offers an inexhaustible choice of subjects from her view of the Tetons as well as the area parks. Living in a log cabin in the small town of Kelly (population 134) has given her the energy and excitement to engage in this unique region where the mountains, waterways and vast open ranges speak about the forces of nature and passage of time.

Experiencing nature’s elements, the light, the extremes of weather and seasons can produce unanticipated visual confrontations to the canvas. It is as if each time she starts a painting it is a first, a new vision. Paintings begin from direct observation responding to the environment. Its’ colors, shapes and the moment of apprehension express the rhythm and light of the moment. The process follows with the demarcations of painting such as the brush strokes, patterns, drawing and the structure within. Each one is personal from the buttes to the mountains, skies, sage flats and trees. Trees have always been a bit of an obsession for Ms. Tintera. A many branched willow, “The Mother Tree” with deeply furrowed and aged bark, stands steadfast with her impressive girth. “Wind and Rock” a late spring painting invites consideration of the simultaneous aspect of the changes and movements that nature imposes with the passage of time. Clouds appear racing along the rocky crags of seemingly eternal stationary mountains. In “Layers” where one sees the striated glacial rocks along the river bank twist and turn in wave like patterns above the churning waters of the Greys River.

Sheila Tintera has embraced this region of Wyoming with the passion of a geologist, an arborist, a meteorologist but with the freedom of a painter who is re-seeing the world as if for the first time. We are opened to this personal and dynamic view which changes our lives as well.

View artwork and learn more about Sheila Tintera by visiting www.sheilatintera.com