Artist Reception with Sheila Finch

This is a free community program. Please consider supporting the Gardens of Golden Gate Park with a donation of $5-20. Your support helps us connect people to plants, the planet, and each other.

Sunday, June 14, 2026
4-6pm
San Francisco Botanical Garden — Helen Crocker Russell Library

About the Program

Join us in the Helen Crocker Russell Library on Sunday, June 14 from 4-6pm to celebrate our new art exhibition, Nature’s Palette: Northern California’s Flora and Skies, paintings by Sheila Finch.

Sheila Finch is captivated by the raw strength and quiet elegance of the land and sea. Her latest works reflect the untamed beauty of Northern California and the Bay Area, capturing serene, expansive moments from nature’s most peaceful corners.

About the Artist

Sheila Finch’s paintings are collected worldwide, and have most recently been acquired for the permanent collection of the Carnegie Foundation at Stanford, Paul Weiss in New York, and the Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.

Sheila has received recognition from the National Arts Appreciation Program, as well as a prestigious show of work at Picasso’s atelier at L’Espace Bateau Lavoir in Paris. Her painting entitled “Strands of Gold” is featured on the first edition of The Land’s Wild Music: Encounters with Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, & James Galvin, by Mark Tredinnick.

Nature’s Palette: Northern California’s Flora and Skies is on exhibit at the Helen Crocker Russell Library June to September 2026. Artwork is available for purchase and proceeds benefit the Library.

No admission is required to visit the art exhibit in the Library. The Library is located inside the Main Gate of San Francisco Botanical Garden on the left-hand side.

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RSVPs are appreciated but not required. Admission to the Garden is free for San Francisco residents, veterans, Museums for All/EBT participants, and Gardens members.