About Sheryl

Watercolorist Sheryl K. Perry’s artwork is in private collections both nationally and internationally. Locally, her paintings hang in the Presidential Suite of UTSA. Sheryl’s artistic renderings are published in The Guide to Home Decorating Indian Style by Priscilla Kohutek. Her artwork is also published in numerous children's books which she illustrated for the author Alice Mitchell. Numerous years she has designed Christmas cards for Christian Assistance Ministry (CAM) fundraisers. She is a member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).

God has blessed me with the desire to paint, to find the divine in the ordinary. Painting, just like my spiritual development, is a lifelong process. There is always room for improvement and another way to interpret a subject. My painting flows best when I give control to the great Creator. To me, painting is a celebration of life and a medium to learn life’s lessons.

Sheryl Perry is a native Texan now residing in San Antonio. After spending nearly twenty years in Mississippi, she considers that state her second home. Painting is now a full-time career for Sheryl since she retired. She earned a B.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin. After marrying and moving to Mississippi where her husband was employed, she began art classes at various colleges in Mississippi and attended numerous workshops there. Roger Lawrence of McComb, MS is the instructor who whetted her appetite to paint more seriously.

She continues to enjoy workshops with various artists and has particularly focused on the study of the figure, studying under William Hocker. Favorite artists who have inspired her work are Georgia O’Keefe, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt. Although she prefers to work from life, she usually photographs the subject and will complete the painting in her studio. She likes to paint flowers in larger than life format, landscapes and figures. Since the birth of her four grandchildren, she has been inspired to paint children and the joy and innocence of childhood.