Watercolor of white coneflowers with rust-brown centers along a wide strip of green grass, under a bright cerulean sky with patches of yellow. — Coneflower Parade, watercolor

Sheila Fossen

Colorado watercolors of aspens, wildflowers and wide-open skies.

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Sheila Fossen smiling beside her table of framed watercolors and greeting cards at an art show.

About the artist

Painting light

Sheila Fossen is a Colorado watercolor painter whose work is about light: the gold of aspens at the end of the day, the translucence of a petal, the wide brightness of a mountain sky.

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Sheila Fossen's painting Aspens Sunset, white aspen trunks against red, orange and gold fall leaves and blue sky, with a green People's Choice ribbon pinned to the corner.

Latest award

People's Choice Award, Fall 2025

Her painting Aspens Sunset received the People's Choice Award at the Louisville Art Association Fall Member Show.

Exhibitions and awards

Fifteen of Sheila Fossen's framed watercolors hung on a white gallery wall: bison in snow, the Flatirons, an orange flower, a trout, aspens, wildflowers, a giraffe, zebras and a horse, with a blue sign bearing her name. — Her watercolors at the Louisville Library, Coal Creek Gallery. Where her work has been shown

Interested in a painting?

Sheila welcomes inquiries about her original paintings, prints and commissions. Email is the best way to reach her.