“I spent a lot of time as a kid on the water there, rowing and fishing and skiing and swimming and just horsing around.”Ĭontrasted with those vivid recollections, her earliest recollections of art activities are “vague,” she says-“although I’m sure my mom enrolled me in summer art programs, and I always enjoyed art.” Not until high school, though, did art instruction make any distinct impression on her: “I had Vince Lia for art classes all three years at Jefferson Senior High, and he was a very encouraging teacher and a very good realist artist.” Occasionally, Mr. “My grandpa built a cottage for the family on Wind Lake,” she says of “an old fishermen’s lake” about 40 miles east of her hometown. Sheri Farabaugh, Green Lips, oil, 9 x 12.īefore Farabaugh was ever introduced to art as a child, water was central to some of her happiest memories growing up in Jefferson, WI, midway between Milwaukee and Madison. Sheri Farabaugh, Eleven Garlic Scapes, oil, 18 x 18. Sheri Farabaugh, Hydrangeas on Indian Rug, oil, 20 x 16. “And painting is something I do simply because I absolutely love doing it.” “Those were jobs that I did because you need to work to support yourself,” she says, thinking back on her previous endeavors. Her sureness of vision and masterful execution have won the artist-who splits her time between the greater Denver area and a Phoenix suburb-recognition in abundance, including Fellowship status with the American Society of Marine Artists, Signature Membership in Oil Painters of America, an Artists’ Choice Award at last year’s Cowgirl Up! show and sale, and an Award of Excellence from American Women Artists.Ĭonsidering such successes, it may come as a surprise to learn that Farabaugh has been pursuing painting seriously for barely more than a dozen years, after almost three decades of successful careers in fields not associated with fine art: biochemistry, brewing, tax accounting, and bookkeeping. Water, in its many natural forms, holds particular fascination for Sheri Farabaugh, and she observes and captures it with sublime sensitivity and immediacy, producing paintings that are sometimes realistic, sometimes closer to impressionism, but always engagingly composed and impeccably rendered. The exuberant splashes of a rushing stream breaking against rocks that jut from its shallow bed. The gentle eddying of a lazy creek as it laps around the ankles of a man and his young grandson, holding hands as they test the waters together. The languid reflections of lotus leaves on a tranquil pond. Get the Southwest Art May 2019 print issue or digital download now–then subscribe to Southwest Art and never miss another story. This story was featured in the May 2019 issue of Southwest Art magazine. Sheri Farabaugh, Beside the Still Waters, oil, 20 x 30.
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