Sherry Nielsen:  My Art Journey

 

When I paint I get super involved with each piece, its values, its hues and the feeling I have with the subject I am painting.

I paint mostly landscapes but love colour studies and flowers, adding my own pigment imagination. Playing with colour and how it works is magical for me. Painting is as unique as our voices, no matter what the image or theme, your expression will be different from the rest. What I look for mostly when I am painting is a colour pop, or something that makes it have it's own song. It's always interesting to stand back from a painting and feel movement, and then as you move forward you see all the colour and detail that was absent from the distance."

I moved to Smithers in 1988. After growing up on a farm west of Elnora Alberta, where I found passion for landscape art, nothing like the large open skies to create a love for landscapes. I still takes several trips there per year as I have family and great friends I still must see. After high school I went to Red Deer Collage to study Art and Design for a year. Continuing with different workshops over the years, working in different mediums, and also doing a fair bit of pottery. But it was in 1992 that I really found my niche in oil painting, after taking some art lessons with a favourite artist David Nehring, who has really influenced my work.

Living just outside of Smithers, BC creates a perfect environment for beautiful scenery everyday.

I love to take trips to the Northern landscape, all the way to Tuktoyaktuk, NWT and out to the Queen Charlottes, BC, or go south to the BC and Alberta borders. As you will notice in most of my works is that I try to compose the landscapes in the actual way it was naturally placed, yet simplifying and stylizing its colour and detail. 

 For years I have had an obsession with the understanding of colour theory, how applying colour to bring distance and foreground to make it come alive. In order to really get to know colour and how it works, one needs to do colour studies as well. Understanding and applying colour is a science all on its own. Please enjoy the work of Sherry Nielsen’s journey of a “Chroma Enhanced Lifestyle”.