Highlights

Sheila's painting, "Passages" was awarded Second Place in the 2026, 4th Annual Fulford Place Juried Art Show in Brockville, Ontario. Her acrylic painting portrays Brockville's Butlers Creek Bridge on a cool, damp day in March.

"Gentle Giants" receives 1st Place Award in the 2025, 3rd annual Fulford Place Art Show in Brockville Ontario.

The Art Renewal Center selects "Living Water" as finalist in the 17th International ARC Salon Competition. The ARC received over 5,000 entries from 87 countries with approximately 24% of entries chosen as finalists. This year, all winners, honorable mentions, finalists and semi-finalists will also be included in the Lunar Codex, “Polaris Collection”. Art images will be laser-etched on nickel microfiche and/or digitized on terabyte memory cards and enclosed in a time capsule on the Griffin lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, and placed on the Moon in perpetuity. The Lunar Codex is a set of time capsules launched on three NASA-related missions, including the work of 7,000 creatives. It will be the first significant placement of contemporary arts on the Moon in 50 years. Lunar Codex https://www.artrenewal.org/17th-arc-salon#/landscape

Sheila's painting, "Pure Gold" was chosen as a Finalist in the Art Renewal Center 16th Annual Salon Competition and can be found in the Animals Category. Finalists are comprised of a select group of the very top-rated entries, 1,273 works in all, or 24% of all entries. Both finalists and semi-finalists have been published on the ARC website. Finalists and award winners are also published in the ARC Salon Book, International Realism. https://www.artrenewal.org/16thARCSalon/Category/Animals

Sheila's 36" X 36" acrylic painting "Sleepyhead" takes third place in the 2021 KSOA juried art exhibition at the Window Gallery, Kingston Ontario.

Award- winning designer and builder Gordon Weima and wife Debbie had their beautiful Ottawa home featured in Our Homes Magazine/Ottawa Summer 2021. This year the couple commissioned Sheila's "Beauty by Design", a 48" X 60" acrylic painting which is featured on page 36, with mention of the artist on page 37.

Sheila's "Joy Comes in the Morning" was chosen as a finalist in the Art Renewal Center 14th Annual Salon Competition. It appears in the Animals category on their website and printed catalogue. This year ARC received over 4,300 entries from 73 countries with finalists representing approximately 35% of works submitted. The Art Renewal Center is dedicated to leading the revival of Realism and is the most prestigious International Realist Art Competition in the world. https://www.artrenewal.org/15thARCSalon/Category/Animals

"Joy Comes in the Morning" receives Honorable Mention Award in the 2020 juried art exhibition at the KSOA Window Gallery, Kingston Ontario.

In 2018, Sheila's painting "Pontiac" was chosen to be part of the Buckhorn Fine Art Festival's special exhibit "The Lives of Birds".

Sheila's "Fledgling Sparrows" receives Honorable Mention Award in KSOA open juried exhibition at the Window Gallery in Kingston Ontario, July 2019.