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In April 2019 Cheryl held her second solo exhibition at the 'Q' - Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre. If you missed the exhibition, you can see an overview of the paintings and photographs/videos from her travels below.
Cheryl won the QPRC Regional Art Awards Exhibition Award in 2017 with her chestnut painting (from Hoskinstown’s Tweenhill Chestnuts). Since then she has been travelling around our Shire, visiting her regular haunts but always keen to explore new places. She has discovered nature reserves and conservation areas. Passionate locals have welcomed her to their properties, showing her the ‘fruits’ of their labours – from pepper berries to cider apples to honey, and beautiful local wildflowers. Along the way she has also found fascinating insects, which are often overlooked.
Cheryl painted many of the natural treasures that she discovered across the Shire in her signature delicate watercolour style. Her aim was to ignite curiosity in others with her paintings and accompanying stories. For example, the beautiful Monga Waratah near the Clyde Mountain is very accessible via the “Waratah Walk”. Nearby is a boardwalk at Penance Grove, with its ancient plumwoods and Gondwanian landscape. In and near Queanbeyan are nature reserves with flowers you may have never seen before. Cheryl wants to impart the thoughts she carries with her every day: wherever you are you can find something interesting and unexpected, if you take the time to look.
Cheryl also wrote about her visits, and researched some of the species she painted. Click here for the 'stories behind the paintings'.
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