Born and raised in Great Falls, Montana, Sharon received a Fine Arts Degree from Colorado Woman’s College in Denver. She majored in theater and art with an emphasis upon 16th and 17th Century painting. After establishing a significant career as a fashion illustrator and advertising executive in San Francisco, Sharon relocated to the Puget Sound area in Washington State where she established a Fashion Marketing Degree Program at Highline Community College. In addition to administrative and teaching responsibilities, she continued to refine her drawing and painting skills, and developed a following for commission portraiture and custom interior art. In 1992, Sharon became a full time artist working primarily in colored pencil and watercolor. She called on her years in the classroom to become a popular speaker and workshop instructor teaching her detailed style of precision painting. Sharon lost her battle with cancer in June 2008. She is greatly missed by her loving family, friends and art colleagues.

Sharon ’s work was in concert with her serious devotion to realism and attention to detail. This was accomplished through her use of intense color, extremes in highlighting and shadows, a meticulous respect for textures, and occasional backgrounds bordering the abstract. Her colored pencil paintings consist of layering pigments from light to dark in microfine circular patterns on four ply archival museum board surfaces. In order to achieve dimensional depth, she sometimes applied up to 25 layers of color. Sharon's watercolors exhibit the same detailed workmanship with however, a more abbreviated number of transparent glazes. Working once again from light to dark, Sharon used generous amounts of juicy, bold pigments on 300 pound cold or soft pressed paper. She frequently finished the piece with a swipe of colored pencil or pastel for impact. Her favorite subjects included animals, florals, and still life.

An accomplished painter and juror, Sharon was a Signature Member and Merit Award recipient with the Colored Pencil Society of America, Past President of the CPSA Seattle District Chapter, and a member of the Northwest Watercolor Society and Women Painters of Washington. She participated in juried, solo, and group exhibitions, and conducted workshops across the nation. Sharon authored and illustrated a "Fashion in History" textbook; was featured in the "Best of Colored Pencil 4 and 5"; and was published in "Art Calendar", "American Artist", "Artist’s Magazine", and the "Seattle Catalogue". In addition, Sharon received eighteen national and international awards since 1998.

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