cheryl milligan

cherylmilliganart@gmail.com

Artist Statement

While most people are busy looking down at their phones, I like looking up. The sky is vast, ever changing and beautiful. It continually puts things in perspective for me. It never repeats itself; it has different moods and it is different from day to day and from moment to moment. It is just like our own experience with living. When creating my paintings. I challenge myself by first putting a bright color ground on the canvas and then working back in with oil paint to make things still appear natural.

Since I usually work on larger canvases when painting in oil, I wanted to challenge myself by working very small. So I began my “Museum Series.” I wondered what it would be like if my work was in a museum. My “Museum Series” constructs are me imagining what would happen in the museum when my paintings were being exhibited.

Exhibitions

Small Wonders 2018, BCAG Fall Exhibit 2018, Personal Views 2018, Visions Exhibit & Award 2018, Waterworks 2018, Small Wonders & Award 2017, Out of Our Comfort Zone 2017, MFA Members Juried Exhibit 2017, Mother and Child 2016, Within and Without 2015,Color and Time 2015, MFA Members Exhibit 2015, Inside and Outside Voices 2014, MFA Members Exhibit 2014

Awards

Personal Visions Juror’s Award 2018

Small Wonders Jurors Award 2018