Phoenix Artist Guild Meetings

Sherry L. Kimmel Watercolor, Collage, Mixed Media, Mono printing Sherry moved from Spokane, Washington to Arizona in 1973 and loves her desert home. Before becoming an artist, Sherry worked in the Mortgage Lending business. She worked for Valley National Mortgage as a loan processor/loan officer, then moved on to work at Chase bank as a Mortgage Loan Officer until 1990. She attended Glendale Community College while she worked and decided to take a drawing class for fun. To her surprise, she discovered she could draw! Then began her work in art. She took five semesters of watercolor classes with Darlene Goto, art history, painting and drawing classes. In 2004 she joined the Arizona Watercolor Association and has been studying painting in watercolor and acrylics. Sherry is a Signature member of both the Arizona Watercolor Association and The Contemporary Watercolorists of Arizona. Before becoming President of AWA Sherry was the delegate representing AWA for the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies in Denver, Colorado, 2007. She has exhibited in juried exhibitions on a local, regional, and national level. Sherry loves transparent watercolor because this medium allows light to pass through, thus the interplay between shadows and light is intensely beautiful. She has traveled extensively throughout the Southwest with her husband and loves to paint the beauty of the desert. Sherry loves the challenge of using a very limited palette in her paintings. It's very exciting to see in which direction her paintings will go. Since 2014 Sherry has explored Mixed Media, Mono Printing, and Collage. She is currently teaching classes at Arizona Art Supply.