SHARON HUTCHISON

MEDIUM

Painting

ARTIST STATEMENT

“My work is inspired by the coastal landscape. Influenced by the damp, moist air and atmospheric light, I paint with diffused layers to capture ethereal light bridging heaven and earth.”

ARTIST BIO

Sharon Hutchison lives with her husband, Durrell Jackson, and dog, Kenya in Newport Beach, California.

Sharon studied art at the California College of Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting.

Following graduation, Sharon backpacked throughout Europe visiting distant relatives and viewing museums and architecture. She traveled on to parts of the Middle East and North Africa, experiencing other cultures and adventure, including a volunteer position at a kibbutz in Israel.

For several decades Sharon ran a mural and decorative painting business, Sharon Hutchison Studio. She worked collaboratively with interior designers painting in private residences and commercial venues. Predominately based in Southern California her projects took her as far as the United Arab Emirates.

Interspersed with her mural business, Sharon continued to hone her skills with plein air painting workshops, life drawing and figure painting and spent a summer at an art school in Umbria, Italy.

Since 2014 Sharon has been solely painting oil on canvas developing her personal approach excerpting from her varied experiences.

Her work is displayed at Elizabeth Benefield Interior Design in Costa Mesa and the Artist Eye Gallery in Laguna Beach.

Sharon’s inspiration is the ever-changing coastal light, the scent of salty damp air, the ebb and flow of the wetland tides and the faithfulness of God’s beauty.