Sheila Maloney - Canada's Foremost Painter of Naive Art

Sheila Ruth Maloney is a self-taught, contemporary folk artist. Her primitive designs are worked in many media. Visitors to her home began purchasing and commissioning her art in 1959. Sheila’s fame and success have steadily grown.

Using traditional methods, often at hand materials, she is able to fulfill her creative drive and make things to her own satisfaction.

Sheila’s work has been shown/hung across Canada, the United States of America, England, Japan, Ireland, Germany and France.
Her work has been purchased by The Museum of Civilization, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and recognized by the Ontario Craft Council, The American Museum of Folk Art, New York, the Galerie Naifs et Primitifs, Paris, France, the Wexford Arts Centre, Ireland and The Famine Museum, Co. Roscommon, Ireland.
Sheila was selected Canada winner by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York in a world wide quilt contest 1989 and winner of the 1992 and 1993 Canada Trust Best Folk Art Award for her paintings. She is the recipient of the Canada 125 Medal for her contribution to the rise and wide success of folk art in Canada. She is also the recipient of Ontario Arts Council Grants and Canada Council Grants. Her sixty painting Irish series was purchased and donated to Concordia University, Montreal . Four of her paintings are in the prestigious Michael C. Williams Collection at the University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia.
Her narrative and naive paintings have captured the heart of country and town life with truth, joy, humour, and love.
Born on a farm near Dauphin, Manitoba, Sheila grew up in Victoria, British Columbia and has lived with her family on a small farm near Zephyr, Ontario, Canada, since 1963.