Since the earliest days of her childhood wandering the forests and seashores of New England, Sherry Hawkins has known that she is indelibly a part of nature. She reveled in the myriad greens, golds, reds, and blues in nature’s palette, unconsciously seeking the dazzling patterns created by light and shadow. She was particularly drawn to rivers and the sea, with their ever changing motion, reflections and refractions. She wants her viewer to perceive the peace and the power to be found in nature’s panorama, and believes humanity craves this connection.

After a long and rewarding career with the Environmental Protection Agency where she could constantly interact with nature and man’s impact upon it, she began painting in earnest — not as a new career, but as a means to “capture” the beauty and exhilaration she felt when encountering scenes of natural beauty. She wants her viewer to feel that same sense of wonder and awe upon encountering a fleeting moment in the living world.

She has taken art classes across the United States and Europe and did an Artist’s Residency in a Nature Preserve in Brazil. She has shown in several local galleries and juried art exhibitions, as well as receiving Meritorious Mentions in the international online gallery, “Light, Time and Space.”