Sheldon Skillie
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Freelance Artist |
| Location | Portland, Oregon, United States |
| Introduction | I am a Haida/Lakota artist currently working in ink on paper, acrylics on canvas and paper, argillite carving, and wood relief carving. I have been drawing all my life, have studied art briefly in college, and have apprenticed under professional native Alaskan artists Norman Jackson(Tlingit) and Don Varnell(Haida). Influences on my current works vary widely, incorporating ballet-like movements taken from skateboarding, the curvilnear sculptural lines found in northwest skateparks, the distorted waveform of my favorite modern rock/jazz/punk music, of course contemporary pop art, and the refinement found in traditional northern northwest coast native art, especially Haida and Tlingit art. I was born in Mountain View, California, grew up between Seattle, Washington, and Ketchikan Alaska, eventually settling in beautiful Portland, Oregon. |
| Interests | I love laughing and living with my wife Kellie, I could always go skating on a nice day, enjoy hiking around the city and all its parks, love playing music with my brother Luc, playing ball or string with the cat, making difficult amazing art in whatever medium can handle it, scoping art at various locales around town, listening to some good live music, reading good lit. whenever time allows, and am a bit of a newshound. I like to try to keep up on the latest news and technological developments. |