During his lifetime, Sheldon had been drawing and painting from an early age and the only time he took off from his art were during his university years. One of the ironies of his art career is that Sheldon is colour-blind. He therefore is always having to tone down his paintings to achieve the realism he is striving for.
In 1987, he discovered that people liked his art enough to buy it.
Sheldon had been painting surrealistic watercolours for many years and the switch to another water-based medium was not a great leap. Sheldon has always said that acrylic painters are frustrated watercolourists at heart.
Sheldon has participated in numerous art shows over the years, both in person as well as on the internet. A group show he is most proud to have participated in was curated by Daniel E. Greene and was combined with the Olympics of Ballet, held in Jackson, Mississippi (Salon International). He and about 200 other artists got to hang their art with Degas originals.
Sheldon presently lives and works out of his home in a northern suburb of Toronto Canada. He has been doing his art full time since 2013. One of his inspirations besides his wife Fern, was his Chesapeake Bay retriever Java, who has been immortalized in some of his paintings.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

My two main areas of specialization are landscapes and surrealism. Writers express themselves by writing. I express myself with my art. When asked why I paint, my answer is, because that's what I do. I love the fact that when I paint, it is all consuming; everything else is irrelevant. For me, art and painting in front of a canvas represents total freedom. I strive to create paintings which convey freshness, luminosity and depth and I love creating pieces with “wicked” light. I am also a firm believer in using whatever works and I enjoy infusing some of my realist art with impressionism when possible.
I use a layering technique so as to achieve the luminosity I am looking for. I work exclusively in acrylics on canvas and my wife tells me that the only thing I have patience for is my art. I am obsessive in order to get the look I am aiming for, especially when dealing with realism. One of my reasons for wanting to get more eyes on my art is to show people what a colour- blind artist is capable of.