About Shirl

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I appreciate your interest in my work...

I’ve been an artist since the art cart pulled into my first grade class room. Even went to college for Art early during my senior year of high school. Graduated with teaching certifications for Art, Health & Physical Education. Started hiking, biking and kayaking with my paints in the Adirondack Mountains and showing my work. My teaching career was cut short when I accepted a commission from a client who paid the rest of my salary for the year. That catapulted me into the self-employed artist boat before I knew what hit me, where I’ve been riding the waves ever since.

 

Choosing to pack up and move that artist lifestyle to the edge of Yellowstone National Park with two toddlers in tow was a bold undertaking of faith for creative inspiration. But the muse was persistent – and so very correct.

 

As you could imagine, quite the interesting ride it has been. Along with the 2 kids, add 2 homes with 2 studios and galleries designed and built on either side of the nation over a few decades with a couple other homes gutted and completely remodeled for good measure. And there you have it – my life in a nut shell.

 

My resume would include too wide a variety of projects throughout the U.S. to list. From fine art and large murals to designing and creating handmade lighting both residential and commercial for wholesale and retail markets. I have installed projects for Six Flags in New York and restaurants around D.C., in Great Camps of the Adirondack State Park, ski chalets in Park City Utah and Big Sky Montana, and I’ve visited my work in Paris France.

 

I have painted in the Adirondack Wilderness with a filming crew for a PBS documentary. For a BBC documentary we traipsed throughout Yellowstone National Park plein air painting and recording the wilderness sounds for a radio broadcast. For National Geographic the camera crew filmed me painting in my backyard in Montana. My work can be found throughout the U.S. and Canada, in England, France and Australia and is in the collection of the U.S. Department of Interior in D.C.

 

Now, the muse has prodded me West once again and I have a place near where my young adult children are for now. I’m embarking on the next phase as the kids are launching. Awe-inspired at the edge of that big Pacific surf, I am find my artist footing on the Oregon Coast.   

 

So beware, if you choose to fill out the contact form below to receive random updates from me on my artistic life… be sure to buckle up! It will most likely continue to be one entertaining amusing captivating fascinating inspiring confusing creative artistic journey. Off we go!