Wendy Sheridan

Wendy lives and work  in Squaw Valley California in the foothills near the giant redwoods. For her, making art is about exploration and experimentation. Exploration of ideas and locations. Experimentation with materials and processes. Over the past 10 years she has been incorporating her own poetry into her 2 and 3 dimensional works.
She has been an artist through her life. It has found different forms as her life has developed and her addresses changed, but it is what has kept her sane and focused always. Whether she was teaching and sharing art with children or creating canvases that were torn and burned, she was always on a journey of discovery.
She compares her creative style to her father’s Sunday drives. When she was growing up they would head out almost every Sunday for a drive in their old blue station wagon, Betsy. They would start out with a plan and a picnic lunch but more often than not her father would find a road that they had not been down and was sure there would be something interesting at the end of it.
Her mother served many a picnic lunch out of the back of that old station wagon because the road turned from pavement to dirt and rocks and the park or the lake was just a memory from the morning. In the end, the secret places they found and the laughter they shared were more valuable than anything they could have planned ahead for.
Her creative process often takes her down those unknown roads as she experiments with ideas and materials. Her latest road has led her to the use of her camera to photograph compost piles that will be turned in to recycled mixed media works. She is also working on very small pieces inspired by traditional Japanese art and Native American sand paintings.