​                                             Sherri Cassell Artist Statement and Biography 
 
I am a landscape painter who resides in the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, California. I am inspired by the oak trees and rolling hills I see outside my studio window. My focus is to express the landscape in a slightly abstracted way using texture and expressive color. The mediums I use are acrylic and also oil and cold wax, both of these mediums are perfect for creating texture and brilliant color. I also use the medium of pastel to create small intimate studies of the landscape.

                                                              Professional Affiliations
Studio Channel Islands Art Center Member, Camarillo, CA
Pastel Society of West Coast

                                                            Selected Awards and Exhibits
2018 Pastel Society of the West Coast, Morro Bay, CA
2017 Douglas Shively Award of Excellence, Santa Paula 80th Art and Photography Exhibit
2016 Terri Ford Award, Pastel Society of the West Coast, Morro Bay, CA
2016 In a Certain Light, Three person exhibit, Blackboard Gallery, Camarillo, CA
2015 Ventura County Museum, Art Alfresco, invitational, Ventura, CA
​2015 New West Symphony, Oxnard Performing Arts Center, Oxnard, CA
2011 Ventura County Museum, Art Alfresco, invitational, Ventura, CA
2008 Best of Show, Santa Paula 71st Art and Photography Show
2007 Mayors Award, SCAPE, City Parks Domestic and Wild, Santa Barbara
2006 Best of Show, Arts Council of the Conejo Valley, California Visions, Thousand Oaks, CA
2006 First Place, Ventura County Fair Professional Fine Arts, Ventura, CA

 
    

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