Shima Shanti
1954
Coronado California, United States
Coronado California, United States
22 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
San Diego California
Represented by
Peace Waters
, San Diego -
US
Works by Shima Shanti
Shima Shanti is an Encaustic painter working in the ancient art form of painting with beeswax and fusing with fire. She paints visions of Peace revealing what lies beyond appearance, free of the confines of perception. Making art is her connection to Spirit; an open eye meditation. Her aesthetic is minimal. Her earth-tone palette is neutral, deep, and rich. In this simplicity, unexpected levels of complexity surface. Shima holds a special reverence for the unseen details in the complex and labor-intensive encaustic process/. The energy she infuses into each painting stirs something within the viewer, awakens us and beckons us to linger a moment longer in our shared appreciation of art. Shima's choice of all natural earth elements -- organic beeswax, earth pigments, fire-tree sap called damar resin and Baltic birch panels -- is a quiet whisper to the authenticity and integrity of her work. Shima's inspiration is borne from growing up in the abundance of water, the Rockies, rolling golden plains and endless big sky of Montana. This connection to Nature has gifted Shima with an innate sense of color and composition. Today in the lakeside hamlet of Del Dios near San Diego timeless joy and lost hours in her studio along with the simple pleasures of outdoor balance the business demands and travel of her artist career.
1985 – 2008 Twenty-three years corporate and entrepreneurial executive administration, leadership and start-up organization, sales, marketing, product development and events management.
2010 – Present Writer, Author, Publisher
2016 – Present Encaustic Artist
Published Books Written by Shima Shanti
Journey OM, A Soul Journeyer’s Adventure, 2010
The Soul Journeyer’s Companion, 2011
Ascension KIs, Opening the Doorways to Light, 2008, 2014
Hats I Am, 2014
Tears of Jupiter, The Cosmos and the Camino, 2022
Shima Shanti Encaustic Fine Artist 2022, 2022
Solo Artist Exhibitions
• Techne Southern California Arts Center, San Diego 2022
• Nepenthe Gallery, Alexandria Virginia – Artist Showcase, 2022
• The Byrne Gallery, Middleburg Virginia, 2022
• Lincoln Center, Newport Beach California, 2019
• Escondido Arts Partnership, Escondido, California, April – 2018
• IKAT & Pearls Gallery, Ventura, California, 2016
• Emerald C Gallery, Coronado, California, 2016
• Art Beat on Main Street, Masters of Men & Spirit, 2016
• La Jolla Art Association, La Jolla, California 2016
Guest Speaker and Panelist
• Panel Member, Topics and Trends, Art Santa Fe 2019
• Spotlight Program Curatorial Committee featured artist Art Expo New York 2019
• Panel Member, – Art Talks Art Expo - New York 2019
• Panel Member, Topics and Trends, Art San Diego
• Guest Speaker, The Alchemy of Encaustic, Nepenthe Gallery, Alexandria VA, July 2023
• NBC7 News San Diego Artist interview September 2019Aau
• 2021 – Included in the film - The History of Joy, WomXn segment, Official Selection for the Cannes World Film Festival and Paris Film Awards Silver Award Best Drama, selected for San Diego Movie Awards, San Diego Film Awards and SoCal Film.
Spotlight Program Curatorial Committee featured artist Art Expo New York 2019
• Tears of Jupiter, the Cosmos and the Camino author Shima Shanti, Amazon Best Seller #1 Travel Biographies & Memoirs, #1 Spain & Portugal Travel
• SDLB San Diego Author Showcase 2023, 2010
• Important World Artists, World Wide Art Books 2020
• San Diego Selects 2019 Award
• Winner “Above the Clouds” Art San Diego
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