Sherry Mason
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BoldBrush Recommends: Sherry Mason
Biography
With even a brief look at Sherry Mason's paintings, one can see that her light brushstrokes, color harmony, and compositions are reflective responses to her life experiences and choices. Admirers of her work often describe it as inspiring, peaceful, and serene. Her preferential and deliberate decisions hallmark a lifestyle that promotes a quiet and tranquil ambiance. Her story, if told, reveals the road less traveled. Already an award winning PleinAir Salon Honorable Mention and Top 100 Finalist and juried into prestigious national art exhibitions and membership organizations, her work continues to be recognized more and more as reflected by requests for commissioned works, speaking engagements and workshops.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Mason spent her early and adolescent years moving from place to place all over Kentucky. Attending four elementary schools, two middle schools, and one high school during 28 moves before the age of eighteen, she would learn to acclimate. The constant transition from place to place with nowhere to really call home made an indelible mark on her life. Painting, drawing and writing poetry would provide a way to retreat. Now, Sherry paints "a retreat to call home" onto every canvas and hopes her paintings evoke that ambiance in their homes for those who love and collect her work.
Upon graduating fourth in her class from high school, and at the behest of her father, Sherry pursued a pharmacist career at the University of Kentucky, College of Pharmacy, instead of pursuing a fine arts degree. It was there she met a dental student and her future husband, Joe Mason. Already accustomed to relocating from time to time, Sherry would follow her husband several more moves while attempting to realize his dreams and in 1998 they relocated to North Carolina. From the Sandhills of Pinehurst, NC to the inspiring mountains of the Blue Ridge in the Highlands-Cashiers plateau, Sherry would fly in their Mooney Rocket twice every week to two different homes, two different dental practices and still find time to paint a semblance of a place to retreat on canvas at least once a year.
"The cloudscapes from the airplane were amazing!"
In 2016, however, she retired from practicing pharmacy to pursue a professional art career. Influenced by the Hudson River School, Sherry Mason (www.sherrymasonart.com) is a traditional landscape oil painter residing in Tennessee. With no formal art education, she has spent the last several years studying the past and present artists of our time, such as John F. Carlson, Joseph McGurl, Ken Salaz, John Pototschnik, and others through workshops, books, and their DVDs. Forever a student of Light, her goal is to realistically, and in a painterly fashion, depict the effects of light and color that declare the glory of God as the Creator. Her practiced technique conveys a sense of immediacy and harmony that we feel in the beautiful world He created. Sherry prefers to paint en plein air for her studies, as that is how she can best interpret the light and shadows she sees, and then finishing them in the studio to most effectively convey her message.
"I have found in my journey and written in the pages of God's word, that we are just passing through this life very briefly. All the transitions from place to place have taught me how to live and expand how I view the world. The soft transitions in my brushwork are representational of how I have learned to move softly from place to place. My journey has ultimately become my greatest blessing and taught me how to see and observe!"
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