About Cheryl Eggleston

As early as 3 years old, I wanted to be an artist.  I would sit with an old Sears&Robuck catalog on my lap and turn to the pages where they had printed an artist’s palette to indicate color choices for clothing.  I remember taking my little index finger and softly ‘petting’ the picture of that artist’s palette.  Oh! How I wanted that…’thing’!  I didn’t even know the word ‘palette’; I just knew I wanted that 'thing' and that someday, it would be Mine!

 

Twenty-five years later, Cheryl graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Atlanta.  Her course of study was Visual Communications/Graphic Design and her first job was staff artist at an advertising agency in Atlanta, GA.

 

Cheryl stayed in advertising only a short two years and she then began to show and sell her award-winning pen & ink and pencil renderings of dense foliage and garden scenes.   The unfortunate death of her husband meant that she had to make some changes.   Cheryl set her art aside for a more steady income stream.

 

After retiring, she began to paint in earnest.   Her work is abstract and surreal and geometric too.  She combines these movements in her compositions in oil or acrylic, creating captivating imagery in color and mood.  Her work has been exhibited at the local, state, national and international level.  She recently won an award at a national invitational show and she exhibited in an international invitational show hosted by the Alexandria Museum of Art LA.  Cheryl has won several awards for her paintings, including Best in Show.  Her work has been published in Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review twice.

 

Born in Ohio, Cheryl currently lives in South Florida.

 

Oh, yes, I have my palette...not quite like the ones in that old Sears catalog.  Advances in art supplies has lead to paper palettes (so much easier-no cleanup).  But my little girl dream has come true!   I am an artist!