2023 Library Show
Character portraits of dogs/cats in acrylic on Strathmore art paper or canvas 16×20 only by private agreement. Samples of paintings of my dog Oliver done on paper and canvas.
2022 - 2023
2020-2021
Getting to Know: Sharron
Sharron
Sharron a native of Michigan, first became aware of Art on a Journey while in a 2 ½ year homeless experience in Ann Arbor. She returned home after 5 year employment in Las Vegas, NV. that had ended. Notices at the Delonis Center caught her attention. Thinking she had nothing to lose she began attending sessions between looking for housing, looking for jobs and working part time. Once housed at Carpenter Place she began to grow artistically again rapidly.
Sharron's life history has had its ups and downs
Sharron contracted polio at age 5½. She was an experimental case at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center. She is the sole survivor of that program and was in recovery treatment until her early 20’s. Interestingly the program at Johns Hoplins included art, which she excelled at.
During her early 20's, Sharron studied art as a hobby at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City while living in NYC achieving the certification that program offered. Later Sharron received a Masters degree in fine art from both NYU and UCLA. As a student, her work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYC and she exhibited at numerous art shows.
Sharron also traveled internationally to Italy, France, Spain, Great Britain, Japan, Holland and Sweden as a student. While in Italy she had an opportunity to study art at the University of Florence. No matter how far she wondered Sharron always found herself returning to her home base in Michigan.
After a major disabling head trauma at 27, she didn't pursue art for a long time. In the 1990s she had some coaching from the Andy Warhol program in Pittsburgh, PA where she was able to recover some of her skills. When in Pittsburgh her watercolors were exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art.
Sharron’s technique is Modern Impressionism. “I actually see it in my memory. I may have to look at the subject with my eyes but rarely paint from that experience of sight. I rely on memory and imagination along with my native creativity and recovered technique.”
“I had not picked up a brush to paint for about 20 years until Art on a Journey came along. I had given up on myself as an artist. I am finding the skill is still there but embedded in a lot of painful experiences from my past. I feel like a recovering artist, lost for so long, but still there.”