About

Sharon works with printmaking processes and uses familiar, everyday imagery exploring ideas around nostalgia, memory, class and cultural heritage to question what people value in art and in life. Her practice responds to her environment and how people affect, influence and change it.

She produces work in series which have contrasting styles depending on her subject matter and processes. One strand is routed in 19th Century photographic Pictorialism in the creation of grainy, painterly, atmospheric photo-based prints to evoke certain emotions and moods; another is more abstract and/or decorative and explores patterns, grids and repetitions combined with layers of texture or colour or both. She likes to focus on the ubiquitous and celebrates the banality of familiar objects and scenes. Curtains, windows, mirrors and reflections are reoccurring motifs. She is fascinated by the mysteries of the interiors they screen, reflect and reveal. Her recent work focuses on lithography, photopolymer intaglio and mono printing  processes. She prints from her home studio in Birmingham using her beloved Bewick and Wilson etching press.

Sharon studied Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton, completing a BA Honours degree in 1992. After graduating, she spent time in Paris, France painting outdoor murals before moving back to the UK. She gained her Master of Arts in Fine Art from Coventry University in 1999.

Her work has been shown in international print competitions, in exhibitions in Europe and the UK including in the House of Commons. Winner of the Westmorland Landscape Prize and the St Cuthbert’s Mill Prize at the Derby Print Open (2019). Awarded a printmaking residency in Germany by the Coventry Dresden Arts Exchange (2022).

Sharon is a freelance artist and educator, currently an Associate Tutor, History of Art at University of Warwick.