About Sharon, as a Fine Artist

If honesty dictates, I have been postponing this part of my career for decades. The idea of painting only what I wanted for myself seemed like a luxurious use of time that I couldn’t justify. I have spent years painting with acrylic paint for murals, but the allure of painting with oils has always been present and calling. I had one semester of painting with oils at the Paier School of Art that I tucked into a small compartment of things I must revisit and literally decades passed without it happening. I thought the lockdown during Covid would finally give me the time but it made me acknowledge I needed to stay physically busy painting, so I covered every available wall in my home, and my outside garage doors with murals. The truth is, I thrive under pressure. I had to come to terms with I needed to paint with oils. When there seemed no time  left to steal from mural painting, I realized how overrated sleep is.

And the magic happened to me. Oil painting opened an entirely new world, a new communication between me and the paint, between me and the canvas. A nod to years as a decorative painter inspired this body of work, mostly painted  aluminum leaf. The light play against the shimmering silver a delight.

My current work is available for you to see at the FINE ART GALLERY.  Please contact me for additional information.

I am an old painting soul ( with decades of mural painting in acrylic) but really like a child now that I am painting in oil paint. My current work is executed on aluminum leaf. I love the play of light the open areas of leaf have, reflecting the changing time of day. This work is a study of the movement of water, the graceful bodies of birds of the water and the play of shadow connecting them.

I found exploring a palette of green blue and warm gray the perfect complement to the aluminum leaf. I work from quick studies done en plein air and tons of photographs. Most of the photos I take myself, but I am the happy recipient of photos caught by friends who know how much that particular  seagull’s look would mean to me.

I hope that a viewer can engage in the chemistry between the light of the background and my quasi-impressionistic hand.

My only regret is that I waited so long to start seriously painting with oil paints. It is tempered by the joy I know will  find in every next painting.