"The blend of colors is intoxicating. Some of them make me want to just fall into them and let my senses absorb them." --Linda Deutsch, Journalist, Associated Press Special Correspondent, Los Angeles, CA
"Sharon's paintings are bold yet enigmatic, firing my imagination to interpet their mystery." Trish Heenan, Jazz Singer and Collector, Lymm, England
"Both visually and conceptually rich. Her adept use of oil paint, textures, and color creates a magical experience for viewers, evoking imagination and emotion. Her paintings possess a captivating and lyrical presence." --Susan Manders, Susan Manders Art Experience, Sherman Oaks, CA
"When I first saw Sharon's paintings, I was wowed. The colors are very vibrant and beautiful. Her paintings spoke to me. I could see images from the titles of each piece." --Christine Linguanti, Collector, San Rafael, CA
"For me, the feel and optimism of the impressionists, both in her use of colour and the physicality of the paint texture, gives her paintings remarkable depth and nuance." --William Ellis, Jazz Photographer and Collector, Lymm, England
"Varied colors and textures evoke placidness or agitation and everything in between. Patterns in both color and the texture add a dimensionality which reminds that every stroke is in some way deliberate and coherent. Like looking into a magic eye… A pattern slowly begins to emerge." Kyle Kimber, Marketing Specialist, Sherman Oaks, CA
"Sharon's use of texture and color in her abstractions is what first drew me to her beautiful paintings, and the juxtaposition with my own photography compositions is always an interesting element of intrigue in our collaborative series, Symbiosis. Her work certainly stands by itself, and I always look forward to seeing what she does next." Don Saban, Artist/Photographer, Los Angeles, CA
"Her use of color is especially moving: the schemes, impenetrable yet softly introspective and nonlinear. Her pieces are alive, with beating hearts and contained consciousness that are not only interrelational, they're relevant and universal." --Rome Romanne, Collector, Pasadena, CA
Shifting Memories Within Fractured City Walls / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Fade Into You / Oil and Charcoal on Canvas / 40 x 16
Curtain of Color / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Layer By Layer / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Shape of a Thought / Oil, Charcoal, India Ink on Canvas / 24 x 30
Light Through the Veins / Acrylic on Canvas / 30 x 40
Stillness and Emergence / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 16
Tall Grass in the Shifting Sun / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Ember Night / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Before the Fog Lifts / Oil on Canvas with Water Based Spray Paint / 20 x 24
Lavender Noise / Oil, Acrylic, Water Based Spray Paint On Canvas / 30 x 30
The Color Stayed / Oil and Water Based Spray Paint on Canvas / 20 x 16
The Still After / Oil and Water Based Spray Paint on Canvas / 30 x 30
Pale Meadow / Oil & Water Based Spray Paint on Canvas 16 x 20
Tattered Poster / Oil on Canvas Mixed Media / 24 x 24
Grey with Pink / Oil on Canvas Mixed Media / 24 x 24
Where the Lines Took Me I / Oil and Charcoal on Canvas / 24 x 24
Where the Lines Took Me II / Oil and Charcoal on Canvas / 24 x 24
Contour / Oil and Charcoal on Canvas / 24 x 48
Girl and Her Mandolin / Charcoal and Mixed Media on Canvas / 36 x 24
Woren Through / Oil and Charcoal on Canvas / 24 x 24
Beach Bag / Graphite on Canvas Mixed Media / 36 x 24
Ramblin' / Charcoal and Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Echo Form / Oil with Charcoal / 24 x 24
Hold Me Close / Charcoal & Oil on Canvas / 14 x 14
Roads to the Forest / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 24
Colorful Chaps / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 36
In the Eye of the Color Hurricane / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Waterfall In Color / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Emerging / Oil on Canvas Mixed Media / 20 x 20
Cornwall Villages / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 36
In the Pink of the Night / Oil on Canvas / 40 x 30
Cliffs of Bhutan / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 24
Into the Blue Garden / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Secluded Cove / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Echoes of Lavender / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Collision of Colors / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Color Cascade / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Molten Symphony / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 36
Hairicane / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 48
Metropolis / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Canyons of Color / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 36
Dusk / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 30
Sails in the Distance / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Seaport / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Thunderstorm / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Figures and Faces / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 36
Purple River / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
In the Horsetails / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Vase with Purple Flowers / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 24
Flower Pot / Oil on Canvas / 20 x 20
Mountains at Water's Edge / Oil on Canvas / 24 x 30
Coasting to the Sea / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 36
Paris Pink & Green Chair / Oil on Canvas / 40 x 30
Magical Zoo / Oil on Canvas / 36 x 36
In the Birches / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 40
The Plains / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 40
Hidden Village / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 40
Floating Blue Rocks / Oil on Canvas / 30 x 15
My work explores a multitude of day-to-day human experiences through an abstract language of color and mark making. Beginning with color, found intuitively, I embark upon a dialog with the painted surface through a vocabulary of mark making - pushing and pulling the surface, painting out, painting in, until that surface is able to "speak" for itself. Harmonizing the color in its own right, lifting and dropping tones until the point at which the painting just "clicks" into place. For me, the act of naming the painting is as important as the act of making. Once complete, each painting suggests its subject to me - a stream of traffic, a field of end of season flowers - whatever it is, the painting knows who it is.