Art is a personal thing for me, a deeper meaning rather. I suppose it is like that for most artists. Most of my work is reflected off of society, the every day things around us. The elderly, the War,
Hurricane Katrina , people with disabilities of all sorts, music, animals, sexuality, and spirituality.
But more than anything, it is how I experience and perceive life. Sometimes I feel the best way of
communicating for me is through painting. I like to document a story without words.
Each painting has a process, There is an example of one below.

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An Amazing Grace
The first step was the sketch on lined paper
This was the original idea for this painting.

An Amazing Grace
The second step is creating light and shade with oil before detailing the image out.

An Amazing Grace
The last step was detailing it. This painting has taken about a year to make.

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BIO

Sytiva Sheehan a self-taught artist who started at a very young age drawing and painting in acrylic, oil, pen, and gouache. Her paintings are known for their big size and the attention to detail. In her teens and early twenties, she sold cards standing on the outside of gas stations up and down the west coast until 1998 when she got a commission job at Rockaway Beach for a store front which led to having a line of cards inside their store. In the year 2000 the Phoenix bar and restaurant commissioned three paintings. In 2003 she reproduced 50 paintings as cards and had a line in various stores in the Mission. In 2004 she and other women had been chosen as emerging artists to open Cachi Studio Painting Gallery . She has also shown in Back to the Picture Soma Gallery and a number of coffee shops. In 2006 two paintings appeared in the chronicle street date S.F. Gate, photographer Lance Iversen. In 2006 five paintings were sold at auction for the Hanot Foundation for people with disabilities. In 2007 she interviewed with San Francisco Voice and Art Culture magazine. Although Sytiva has not traveled much, a number of her paintings have homes in the San Mateo area, as well as San Francisco, Oakland, Sonoma, Los Angels, New York, Colorado Mexico and El Salvador. She is working towards a degree in animation as a storyboard artist, as well as an illustrator for children's books.





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