Shari is a lifelong fine artist and creator and paints out of her home studio in the beautiful Tennessee town of Franklin. A Southern Ohio native with deep Southern roots, she and her husband embraced the beauty and passion of the South almost 27 years ago when they moved to Tennessee. They started their family there with two incredible kids (now young adults) and a plethora of animals that have passed through their doors. They love their animals. Shari has traveled the world as a former flight attendant and loves so many places, but the beauty and warmth of Tennessee has her heart and the memories of Ohio always keep her coming back.

As a lifelong creator, she can even trace it back to elementary school at a Young Authors Conference where they wrote their own books and illustrated them, to years spent airbrushing and painting t-shirts and parasol umbrellas at Kings Island Amusement Park north of Cincinnati. To this day, she continues to write and publish articles and someday she hopes to write and illustrate more books. It would be a full circle moment.

Texture shows up in many of her pieces. She loves bringing surfaces to life in this way and adding paint with a pallet knife and other marks. This is how she started and it’s been a progression of style. When she first experimented with a pallet knife, she found a freedom in painting that she had not known before. A loose, expressive painter, she loves seeing the painter’s “hand” in the work. When she started experimenting with the pallet knife along with mixed media, and brush work, she found the best way to express herself.

Shari has been honored to have her work featured on television and in magazines and licensed with Kirklands and Hobby Lobby, but her greatest honor is to work one on one with people to create something that makes them happy. She is a graduate of Miami University/Oxford, OH’s College of Creative Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design. Creating and sharing is inherent to who she is. Art is in her blood and she’s so grateful for the continued opportunity to share it with others. Reach out if you are interested in bringing a special piece of art into your life.

(photo credit: Glenn Sweitzer / Fresh+Design)