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 the ocean with its ever changing motion, reflections and refractions.
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 started painting in earnest, not as a follow on career, but as a means to “capture” the beauty and exhilaration she felt when encountering scenes of natural beauty. She wants her viewers to feel that same sense of joy and awe glimpsed in an ephemeral moment in nature. She is forever drawn to the sea and mysterious moments of dazzling beauty, and her need to possess it on her canvas.