Artist Statement

"The foundation of all my work is color, fresh and alive. One beautiful single color is often the inspiration for a painting. Next, I meditate on my setting and canvas—I am the instrument and when I begin, I rarely know what will emerge. The magic of ColorSensorism is intuitively allowing the painting itself to come to life: inspiration starts with a color, then adds other colors in form, layers into a design, becomes a set of objects on the canvas, coalesces into a painting, then transmutes into emotion until each viewer is swept up into a highly individualized experience with the painting. What I like most is the joy and awe of watching how tubes of paint and canvas are transformed into a playful, emotive experience for those who share it as a finished work of art."

Artist Sheila Runkis

"I am a mostly self-taught artist who has developed a novel set of techniques for creating art called 'ColorSensorism.' In essence, ColorSensorism amalgamates the traditional styles of representational art, abstract art and non-objective art into a new art form using color to bridge the aesthetic divide. Achieving harmony between these disparate styles is not easy. To accomplish it, I start each painting by focusing my mind, one-pointedly, on an object of interest until I merge with its soul in a state of unity and allow its Spirit to flow within me. Then I project this pure energy into my paintings by converting my feelings into a group of sensory color perceptions which express themselves in my work.

"Each painting has a rich variety of ethereal shapes and suggestions of shapes which are uniquely inter-preted by the viewer in a one-on-one exchange between the viewer and the painting itself. The work is always amazingly colorful, and full of movement and force. And since my spiritual orientation is very strong, the oil paintings I create become a form of spiritual intuitive art that is always inspiring.

"Come share this new and exciting vision of the world around me, the world within me; the world that lies beyond the realm of the senses. ColorSensorism is truly an adventure beyond space and time."