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Oil Paintings - Artist Sherron Moorhead

Most of the paintings featured in this website are for sale. If you are interested in buying an original oil painting or coloured pencil painting please use my contact page.

I would class my oil painting style as representational. I tend to focus on landscapes, however, I also enjoy painting animals, people and still life subjects.

I do not produce paintings about one specific subject or another, I work from photographs of my own or from other photographers. I work in oil paints using brush and palette knife. Additionally, I have recently begun exploring coloured pencil.

I am not trying to express my ideas, instead I paint to offer the viewer an opportunity to enjoy the scene or subject as I did and take their own experience and pleasure from it. I think of my paintings as an inventory of places, photographs, objects and life that I have enjoyed and/or wish to share. Whatever a painting says to the viewer - it is the right message, each person takes something a little different from the same painting and that is what I want.

I have always loved Impressionist paintings, particularly the Group of Seven including Tom Thomson and some 19th Century Artists like Alfred Sisley. I also enjoy the work of modern day impressionists such as Vladimir Horik and Erin Hanson. At the same time I am captivated by photo-realism demonstrated by many artists such as Edward Spera and Janie Gildow.

I also work on commission, see some of my work in the 'Commissioned' Gallery. If you wish to find out more about having a painting created, or want to buy a painting available in my portfolios, please reach me through my Contact page.

An active member of the NOTL Arts Collective. We are a group of professional artists, curators and galleries located in Niagara-on-the-Lake who are working to establish Niagara-on-the-Lake as a premier art destination. Please visit the NAC Arts Collective.

Art Education

2003 – Brock University, Sketching With Pencil (David Wright, Instructor)
1990-91 – Sheridan College, Photography
1987 – Sheridan College, Painting Course
1959 – The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Arthur Lismer, educational supervisor)

Solo Exhibitions

2013 – Niagara-on-the-Lake Library

Group Exhibitions

2020-2023 - Riverbrink Art Museum Gift Shop, Queenston, Ontario Riverbrink Art Museum
2024 - Chateau des Charmes Winery - NOTL Art Collective group show Jan to July
2023 - Chateau des Charmes Winery - Niagara-on-the-Lake Art Collective group show July to Jan
2022 – The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre – Members' exhibition
2020 - Pondview Estate Winery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
2019 - Riverbrink Art Museum Gift Shop, Queenston, Ontario
2015 – 2018 The Wednesday Collection, Niagara-on-the-Lake Library
2015 – The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre – Raymond Martin exhibit
2014 – The Wednesday Collection, Niagara-on-the-Lake Library
2014 – The Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre – Student exhibition
1964 – Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal

About Sherron M.

Born in Quebec. Currently living and painting in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

I always loved to draw and colour from as far back as I can remember. My creativity likely came from my Mother who loved to sketch and my paternal Grandfather who painted with oils (although I never saw any of his work).

My first notable art lessons were at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, where I met Arthur Lismer who ran the Montreal Children's Centre there and periodically dropped in to demonstrate for our class. He left me with a lifelong, vivid memory of his presence and sketching ability.

While in the senior year of my high school art program, I and another student collaborated on creating a large painting (5’ x 4’) of the city as a submission for a month long, board-wide art show at the school board. When the show was over, the school board did not return our painting but instead kept it mounted on their wall for the whole year.

At age twenty I purchased my first set of oil paints and brushes and from there began working in oils. Over the intervening years I have pursued many art courses through continuing education programs, colleges and municipal art & leisure programs. I also have an extensive library of art instruction books, videos and magazines for learning and reference.

While living in Quebec, in the late seventies I sold a number of paintings and worked on several commissions.

Due to a sensitivity to odours from traditional oil paints, I dabbled for a number of years with crafts and painting on glass and ceramics. However, with the advent of water mixable oil paints I was able to return to oil painting.

Now I am living and running my own graphic design business – Motivation Graphics, in Niagara-on-the-Lake. I create websites, design layouts and advertising for print, including the Niagara-on-the-Lake Bed and Breakfast Association’s keepsake map of the NOTL and surrounding area.

I have continued with my art education through many of the courses provided through the Niagara Pumphouse Art Program. I continue to paint and have showings at local venues.