A Devotion to Detail

A Devotion to Detail

After marriage (she met her husband in an art class) and several years as a stay-at-home mom to three, Cheryl returned to painting full-time in 2006. She had continued to dabble while raising her family and discovered she was increasingly drawn to the structure and pigmentation she found in botanical subjects. One glimpse of her graceful strokes and meticulously rendered depictions, and it’s obvious she has an extraordinary gift.

“It can be about capturing the color that I see when the light hits a subject in a certain way. It can be the way one color shines through from underneath another petal or the way something grows or bends in the wind,” she says. “It leaves an image in my head I want to produce.” She has found joy in studying the beauty in nature and delights in sharing her discoveries.

A Devotion to Detail

In addition to creating her own art, Cheryl teaches classes and holds workshops in botanical illustration and watercolor painting. She reaps a great deal of satisfaction from helping her students develop their talents—perhaps as much as she finds in her own expressive endeavors. “I love what I do, all of it!” she says. “I feel very privileged to be able to work as an artist.”

Text Karen Callaway 
Photography 
Kate Sears 
Styling Jane Hope

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2 COMMENTS

  1. What a lovely gift – to be an artist of such fine watercolours!

    I am very envious of this gift as I am not able to draw a straight line without a ruler! 🙂

    It would be wonderful to use Cheryl’s fabulous creations as note cards or stationary – I would certainly buy some!

    God bless !

    Brandon Hartford
    Te Deum Cottage

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