Dennis Sheehan

Biography

Dennis Sheehan, born in Boston in 1950, is a member of the Guild of Boston Artists. Sheehan is the recipient of many prizes and awards, and his work is in major public and private collections, including the White House. In the tradition of the Tonalist painters of the early 1900's, Sheehan creates landscapes of mood, affected by nature's changing seasons. “My goal is to have the painting emanate light, rather than be just a surface that records the reflections of light. This is why the shadow areas are important; for it is from them that this emanation proceeds. The light areas are focal points of this effort, but the power comes from the shadows.”