Sheryl Knight: The Artist

Sheryl Knight is an award winning plein air artist, best known for her vibrant oil paintings and impressionistic painterly style. She has lived on the California Central Coast most of her life, but grew up in Northern California where she learned to love nature and the outdoors.

Sheryl enjoys portraying the seasons and capturing the color, the light, and the mood of the scene. She paints on location as well as in her studio. She loves being able to not just paint what she sees, but to paint it the way she would like it to be, moving things around or combining several scenes into one to make the most interesting painting possible. “Though I strive for excellence in all my work, I think I enjoy the process as much as the finished product. I love to experiment and try new ways of conveying what I see. I am constantly working to improve my art. My goal is to be able to say exactly what I want on the first attempt, and to make my paintings sparkle with light and life. I most enjoy painting anything from nature, capturing the beauty of creation and the world around me.”

Although Sheryl has studied under many well-known artists over the years, she has developed her own style and her work is unique and recognizable. She has won many awards, been accepted into numerous juried shows, had eight one woman shows, and participated in the Los Olivos Quick Draw Invitational for the last five years as well as several other Plein Air Festivals. Her paintings hang in private and corporate collections throughout California and across the country. She has recently had a painting juried into the prestigious National Oil and Acrylic Painters 2011 show, and two paintings into the 2011 National Parks Top 100 show. She is also a member of Oil Painters of America, the Laguna Art Group, the California Art Club, American Women Artists, and the National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society.