Choosing the right piece of artwork for your home can be a daunting task. First and foremost, Sheldon Fine Art encourages you to find artwork that you love. However, when factoring in color pallets, available space, and subjects this can prove to be a challenge. The idea of a commission can be an intimidating concept.

The use of physical texture in a work of art to create depth of form and meaning is nothing new but has recently become more widespread, with many artists taking the technique in their own unique directions. Richly textured works of this kind can add a pop of avant garde interest to any decorating scheme, while the infinite variations within the surface of the paint itself create treasures that can be pondered over and admired for a lifetime.

Sean Farrell is one of those rare people who come along once in every generation or so. A true Renaissance man he is completely self-taught, capturing his luxuriant still lives through observation and, perhaps, the channeling of the ghost of Caravaggio.

William Hobbs describes himself as a member of a modern Hudson River school, seeking a return to nature for inspiration. Like those like-minded artists of the mid-19th century that preceded him, Hobbs taps into themes of exploration and discovery, viewing the world through a lens of awe at Nature's power.

Del's work runs the gamut from maritime, to cityscape, to portrait, to still-life and back again. No matter the subject, he always approaches his works with the delicate hand and clear-eyed vision for which he has become so well known. There is a certain theatricality to his work- an understanding of visual pathos and romance of staging that can only have come from his time as a performer.

Born in Seoul South Korea in 1949, Mario Jung's path to his career as an artist has been circuitous and fraught with setbacks. Despite this, or perhaps even because of it, his works radiate a sense of positivity and joy. The world of his imagination is a world at peace with itself - where trees bloom year-round and the lushness of the landscape is a symbol of endless renewal.

Leland's work relies upon the reactions between metal and acid, a process that is as obscure as it is complex. He begins by mixing varying ratios of powdered iron, copper, and bronze with different types of salt-based elements and acids. This mixture is spread over a specially prepared wooden ground which has been painted a solid color.

Born and raised on Cape Cod, Neil McAuliffe always knew he wanted to be an artist. In his youth he recalls being struck by the character of the old buildings and quaint village roads that were slowly being replaced and built over; he longed to capture these old things that make New England unique.

Born in the coastal city of Aarhus, Denmark, the sea and the process of painting it has always been a factor in Ken Zier's life. The grandson of legendary Scandinavian maritime painter Wolmer Zier and one of a family of keen yachtsmen, Ken mentions always taking a pad of paper with him to sketch during summer boating holidays.

Always inspired by the Impressionist movement Joyce began experimenting with texture and the three-dimensionality that painting could offer, embracing the use of a palette knife to create texture and build surface. Joyce's preferred subjects are figures, often young women and girls which she paints with an eye for grace and movement.

Jane began her artistic career as a potter in the early 1990s, and this creative urge to get her hands dirty never left. She transitioned to collage and mixed-media work and has continued to throw herself joyfully into this style of creation ever since. Throughout it all, Jane never lost touch with the love of the textural - taking inspiration from the natural as well as the man-made forms of the world around her.

Albanian artist Josef Kote's works offer a refreshingly inventive spin on traditional subject matter. Kote knew from an early age that his passion lay in the realm of the creative and spent most of his childhood drawing and sketching. His work was entered in many local and national competitions

How to capture the emotion of a bright summer's day on the water? The work of California-based artist Laura Browning attempts to do just that. Inspired by the clear blues and crystalline waters of the Pacific coast, her works embrace the movement and beauty of light on the water. Built-up painstakingly through the layering of thin layers of oil-based pigment Laura's works capture the luminosity and reflectivity of the waters' surface while inviting the viewer to gaze deeper into the depths.

Frauke is a master of the mixed medium. Painting on sailcloth, in itself a richly textured and meaningful material, Klatt’s love of the tactility of sailing is brought to the fore. Through the mixing of sand in with her paints she creates nautical paintings that embrace everything about the salt, the sand, and the sea that inspire her.

John's work is inspired as much by the works of landscape artists past as it is by his own insatiable exploratory nature. Regularly traveling the length of Long Island, exploring the islands, cave systems, forests, and waterways, taking inspiration from their impressive natural beauty and untouched seclusion. John's works are intimately tied to place - his love for the landscape is evident in everything he does.

Known for her bright colors and the depth of emotion in her brushwork, Jeanette's work is a decorator's dream. Traditional subjects from still lifes, to landscapes, to animal portraiture come to vibrant, dancing life beneath Jeanette's brush. She works in layers, each revealing, and by the same turn masking the layer beneath. These layers build upon each other to create a riot of color, as contemporary and abstracted as it is referential to the impressionists of old.

A Stonington CT native, Laurie's work is intimately tied to the landscape of the place she calls home. One in a long line of sailors and lovers of the sea, Laurie finds inspiration in the ever changing weather and the temperamental sea which she can see out her studio window. Laurie didn't discover her talent or drive for creativity until later in life, having already had a successful career as the manager of an art gallery. It was while working at the gallery that Laurie began to study art academically and with an eye for technique.

Mark Brown is considered an artist at the forefront of the movement for contemporary realism. An artist since his youth, Mark painted regularly and passionately - cars, animals, things from his imagination which he would breathe to life with his steady hand and keen eye. Visiting museums as a child, Mark was constantly fascinated by the detail and rich coloring of the works of the Dutch Masters. It was this fascination that inspired him to practice more, work harder at his craft, in an attempt to mimic that intense, lifelike, beauty.

Tim Thompson was born in Hull, Yorkshire but spent his youth in the channel islands on the island of Herm. The natural beauty of the island and the influence of the sea in everyday island life fed Tim's imagination from an early age. He is as much a historian as an artist, taking inspiration from tales of great naval battles and historic craft.

In the mid 1800s a group of French painters began painting landscapes inspired directly from nature. It was as much a revolt and revolution as anything imagined by today's youth, an approach to painting which flew in the face of the fashionable and accepted Romantic approach of the time, which strove to utilize nature as a backdrop and allegory to the struggles of the human spirit as opposed to a subject in its own right.