Sherrill Girard is a Canadian artist who lives in Toronto, Ontario Canada. She works from her home studio after a 6 year experience immersed in the artistic culture of Montreal, Quebec. Sherrill has traveled extensively and painted and exhibited internationally in Canada, the UK, Europe, the United States and Japan. Her work can be found in private and corporate collections in Canada, Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Sherrill received her art education at a number of institutions, including the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Ontario College of Art, the University of Guelph and Dawson College in Montreal.
Sherrill Girard is an elected member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour, Société Canadienne de l'Aquarelle, Le Cercle des Artistes Peintures Sculpteurs du Quebec, The Arts Club of Montreal, as well as several other arts organizations. Using the mediums of paint and photography, Sherrill is back exploring and painting the wilderness of the Niagara Escarpment as well as the streets, buildings and rail yards of urban Toronto.
My paintings and photographs are a visceral response to my immediate environment and the sensations and impressions that I experience. I come across seemingly mundane moments such as sun dappling through autumn leaves, the play of light on water, patterns of light and shadow, the texture and colour of delapidated buildings and machinery, or the sudden flood of light through an old window. I interpret my response from a number of artistic techniques including watercolour, oil, acrylic, encaustic and photography. The subject of the painting usually dictates to me the medium I use.
My paintings are usually of the natural world including close-ups of flowers and leaves, seasonal images, landscapes and waterscapes. Often a subject will be a minute detail of shadow cast on the single leaf of an autumn maple, or the gossamer petal of an iris in morning light, which I immediately envision in large scale luminous watercolour. In other cases the green-gold expanse of a canola field or the play of reflections on water will dictate the impasto brushstrokes of oil or acrylic. At times I need to record the rich texture abd graphic shadows of fallen buildings and crumbling concrete immediately with my camera. I the I then try to evoke in the viewer the same initial exhilaration and original impact of what I am viewing and recreate that feeling.
I hope my paintings and photographs draw you in to the work and resonate my initial inspiration.
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