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After
a 20 plus years career in the computer industry, Martha Sharp took a
painting class at the Gibbes Museum Studio, Charleston, SC.
That was the spark that started her painting career.
Painting was “love at first sight” and quickly became her
life. Taking
workshops with numerous national artists; Kevin MacPherson, Lois
Griffel, Ron Hicks, Albert Handell, Ken Auster, Scott Burdick; as
well as a wealth of museum and private study has been her art
education. Over
the years, her painting style has become uniquely her own with her
rich color and broad brushstrokes.
Martha
creates captivating light filled floral, landscape and figurative
oil paintings that invite the viewer to become a part of her vision
of joy, beauty and elegance. Her oil paintings are filled with rich
color and energetic brushwork adding her feelings of movement and
life to her art.
Strong dramatic light and shadow are another of her
favorite themes cultivated from painting plein aire.
But most important of all to her is to change her subject
matter to keep her and her work fresh and new. |
