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No genre comes close...
Image from Bethlehem House Gallery Holiday Show (October 2018 - January 2019)
After viewing her art at the Bethlehem House Gallery, definitely HAD to get the interview!
Important Note: This interview is from an e-mail. It is straight copy / paste with zero editing. Cheryl also provided an opening statement.
Important Note: This interview is from an e-mail. It is straight copy / paste with zero editing. Cheryl also provided an opening statement.
Here is a summary of my artistic career. I wrote this as part of my career narrative.
A fellow artist once told me that I have found a way to make happy accidents my overall style. For nearly 50 years, my career with watercolors has shaped my interest in the complexities of emotion and the development of human connection using everyday situations. It is my watercolor style, developed over decades that is exclusive and differentiating. My use of the figure as anonymous characters in the stories I tell, capture life moments portrayed as a whisper worth noticing.
As a signature member of both the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Baltimore Watercolor Society, I have shown my work nationally and internationally. My style and application of watercolors gives the medium a new and unique visual quality. My focus is on everyday situations where I balance the fluidity of the medium with subtle color changes. My unique handling of the medium has evolved over the course of my art career; I use a puddle-like technique which creates an unusual style reminiscent of the Impressionists yet influenced by modern day masters. My work’s recurring theme is the depiction of beauty in moments of time that others may pass by without noticing. I am influenced by people in their momentary emotional interactions which tell their everyday life stories.
A fellow artist once told me that I have found a way to make happy accidents my overall style. For nearly 50 years, my career with watercolors has shaped my interest in the complexities of emotion and the development of human connection using everyday situations. It is my watercolor style, developed over decades that is exclusive and differentiating. My use of the figure as anonymous characters in the stories I tell, capture life moments portrayed as a whisper worth noticing.
As a signature member of both the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and Baltimore Watercolor Society, I have shown my work nationally and internationally. My style and application of watercolors gives the medium a new and unique visual quality. My focus is on everyday situations where I balance the fluidity of the medium with subtle color changes. My unique handling of the medium has evolved over the course of my art career; I use a puddle-like technique which creates an unusual style reminiscent of the Impressionists yet influenced by modern day masters. My work’s recurring theme is the depiction of beauty in moments of time that others may pass by without noticing. I am influenced by people in their momentary emotional interactions which tell their everyday life stories.
Interview
1) How long have you been an artist, either as a hobby or serious and professional? I like to think I have been a serious artist my whole life. I started painting at a young age, majored in Art in College and carried on painting working to find my style.
2) Have you had schooling or are you self-taught? I went to Millersville University and studied Art. While I have had change in styles throughout my artistic career, the biggest changes in my style have evolved over the last 15 years.
3) How important do you believe textbook / school is for an artist? I am a fan of school. Not so much about what you learn in a text book but how important it is to continue to learning forever. And it is important to experiment with your art in order to get to next levels.
4) You have basically created a new genre / style of art, literally. How long have you been doing this genre? You are very complementary, thank you. I don’t know that it’s a new genre however I do use watercolor to tell my stories in a different way. I break all the rules of the medium. My painting has evolved and over the last 15 years, it has begun to get noticed.
5) How did you get started with it? Was it intentional or did it evolve from something else? When I start a painting, I am obsessed with making it work. Not all paintings are masterpieces however I work on them all like they are. I paint all day every day until they are done. Sometimes the painting doesn’t work for 4 weeks before something good happens. One night I go to sleep and in the morning, the areas start to crisp into puddles.
6) Going from what I have seen at the Bethlehem House Gallery and your website, you have a wide variety of subjects in your art. Everything from everyday life to some studio style nudes. Is variety an important part of your creative process? For years I just worked in watercolor at my home studio. Now that I also have a studio at Goggleworks Art center, I do a lot of experimenting there with surfaces using acrylics, oils and wax in addition to watercolor.
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