Musson Lane Gallery
November Feature Artist – Sheila Sharp
We are delighted to show Sheila Sharp as our feature artist at Musson Lane Gallery for the month of November.
Sheila didn’t study art at school, her family was musical. However, as a child, she visited many Cathedrals, Historic Houses and Art Galleries in England and those enriched her visual memory.
After her 40th birthday, she went to Oil Painting classes at the local Community College and joined the Macquarie Towns Arts Society. At a lino printing workshop, she fell in love with carving and creating black-and-white relief printmaking.
Sheila particularly liked making prints of buildings where she had to depict textures, foliage and the juxtaposition of two ‘black areas.’
At the Nepean TAFE Printmaking courses, she was taught non-toxic Aluminium Plate Etching. She loves the technical aspect of carefully timing the plate’s exposure to the solution, creating shading in her works, then inking and wiping off before intaglio printing with the HCAW etching press.
Sheila finds Printmaking constantly fascinating.
Visit us at the Musson Lane Gallery to view Sheila’s artworks and over 100 works from our members as well.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
The address is Unit 2, 1 Musson Lane, Richmond, NSW 2753.
