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About the artist
Sharon Wherland is an artist and violinist living in Redmond, Washington. She studied painting and music at Western Washington University, and received a masters in Arts Education at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC. She has worked as an artist and educator, teaching in Bellingham, Washington and in Salamá, Guatemala, where she worked for as a Artist in Residence, exhibiting paintings, teaching and performing concerts and lecture-recitals in the schools. Sharon has also exhibited regularly in group and solo shows in restaurants, cafés and galleries including the Oasis Gallery in Seattle, the Kirkland Art Center and the Seattle Artist League. Sharon’s works are in public and private collections throughout the Northwest, including the City of Bellevue. When not painting Sharon runs a thriving Suzuki method studio of violin students out of her home in Redmond, and teaching Suzuki-inspired visual art education classes.
To learn more about Sharon's art or music teaching please visit
wherlandsuzukistudio.com
About my paintings
I work to pull the viewer into my paintings by referencing basic elements from landscape – the solidity of land, lightness of sky, distance of space. I then work to manipulate that illusion with forms and marks that disrupt and confuse the planes of space or the sense of gravity. The goal is a visual experience that does not resolve easily into land and sky but instead feels more like listening to a piece of music. In other words, as the viewer spends more time with the work the experience expands and the composition comes into focus, allowing the work to be understood through the rhythm of its repeated marks and the play between dissonance and harmony formed in the juxtaposition of colors and forms.
About my collages
I use the same principles in my collage work, repeating images to create a stuttering of forms and multiple perspective points. The intentional confusion of time and space reflect the narrative, time-based nature of visual experience and the fragmented, ethereal nature of memory.