Painters seek ways to capture the essence of a child’s spirit or express the feel of an atmospheric view believably on to a canvas. Cheryl attributes abilities such as these to her forty-year career as a nurse and nurse practitioner in addition to artistic study. Cheryl has cared for other during their most vulnerable of times and has developed astute observational skills in the process. Until 2018 Cheryl has had to balance her nursing career and art creation.  However, creativity through painting remained a recurrent outlet Cheryl sought to bring balance and enrichment to her life.

     After working exclusively in watercolors and studying under watercolor artist, Gail Mc Daniel, Cheryl learned pastel and oil painting. Cheryl especially enjoys landscape painting. Cheryl has done countless commissions of oil and pastel portraits of children. Cheryl studied for several years under nationally recognized portrait artist, Chad Boyd who studied under renowned portrait artist Everett Raymond Kinstler.

      Cheryl has participated in and sold works in numerous regional shows and she was a member of the Chestnut Group Plen Air group in Nashville, TN. She won the 2015 2-Dimensional award at the Tennessee Craft Southeast competition. She has studied with renowned landscape artists Camille Przewodek, Dawn Whitelaw, Brett Weaver, Lori Putnam and most recently Pamela Padgett and Anne Blair Brown. Cheryl also has two large murals permanently on display is the Scales Elementary School Library in Brentwood, TN.

      Cheryl has expanded in to painting landscapes in both Plen Air and in the studio. She has a renewed outlook on landscape painting since being surrounded by the beauty and majesty of Sewanee after moving to the mountain eight years ago. She has taught Landscape Painting to students ages 11-17 at St. Andrews Sewanee School for 2 years.  In 2018 she also taught portraiture to a 17-year-old student who was accepted in to Rhode Island School of Design. Cheryl enjoys sharing her knowledge with the next generation of young artists.

   Cheryl is available for commission paintings of subjects in landscape, portraiture and of private homes or architecture.