Sherry Buckner
Sherry has also been creating screen prints for the several years. Most recently she has added innovative processes to her medium along with hand painted elements to each print. Sherry teaches art in the elementary school classroom and has been a guest teacher and speaker in many educational communities in western Washington. Red Twig Studio and her home are located south of Tumwater, where she shares life with her husband, dogs, cats and the local wildlife.

Some of my images arise suddenly when I am least expecting them, in a flash as a picture seen internally. Those images come usually after some dreams and experiences about occurrences in my life – or when I am working with intensity to come into alignment with my one self. Sometimes I am learning or embracing something that is coming to pass. I am usually creating clarity and insight and deeper awareness of my own feelings or perceptions. I would like to say that my images come close to a sacred awareness, but I am also a craft woman, I love to hone my skills as an artist. I love to embrace and feel calm oneness when I am drawing, because of an intimate knowledge of the subject, with its straight lines and curves and the motions of subtle angle changes. Gradations sing to me in a way that they feel heavenly or transcendent. Working with these nuances brings me into an accord with my own sense of beauty – profound or sensual – they bring me closer to the feeling of wonderment that I see each day in nature.