Shelia Cotton

As Sheila Cotton, whose paintings are signed "Cotton", is a mid-career artist working exclusively in oils on canvas. She is the winner of the prestigious Greenshields Award and has been featured in the important National Chautauqua Exhibition of American Art in New York. Her paintings hang in over 30 museum and corporate collections.

A native of Arkansas, she has resided in Canada and Florida for many years, only recently returning to Little Rock to live and paint. She divides her time between Arkansas and a winter home in Naples, Florida.

In the summer of 2006, she embarked on an important new series of paintings inspired by a deeply-felt kinship to her native state and its history. "Antique Arkansas" depicts scenes and people from the artist's collection of old postcards and photocards of Arkansas.

Beautifully rendered oils of ordinary life - a girl in a swing, a logging camp, hunters and farmers - distill on canvas the images from the past that still move us and define us.

This artist's command of technique and what critics have called her "sensual intellectualism" culminate now in this unique and on-going series.

Gallery Central is proud to be the exclusive dealer in the South for Sheila Cotton and the "Antique Arkansas" series.