Shima Shanti’s work emerges from the elemental still point—where separation dissolves and awareness remain.

She paints from a place of attention rather than intention. Each piece begins without deciding where it will arrive, following what is asked to be revealed. Over time, the work emerges.

There has been a quiet evolution in Shima’s practice. Where she once sought resolution and refinement, she now values what remains visible—the traces of movement, the history within the surface, and the moments that resist completion. Shima no longer asks the work to resolve,  rather allows it to remain alive.

Her paintings are not depictions of specific places, yet they are grounded in a felt sense of land, water, and horizon. They exist as thresholds—spaces where stillness and movement, presence and memory meet. They hold atmosphere rather than image—memory without narrative.

Working in encaustic, is a continual dialogue between control and surrender. The flame of the torch can preserve or dissolve, reveal or obscure. The material has its own voice. She listens. What remains is a record of that presence—subtle, layered, and unresolved.

At the core of her practice is an ongoing inquiry into Being—into awareness, presence, and the experience of wholeness. The paintings don’t try to explain this; they hold it. They are less about what is seen and more about what is sensed.

Shima Shanti thinks of the work as an invitation—to pause, to look without urgency, and to notice what is present beneath the surface.

What emerges was always there—she simply allow it to be seen.