Jill Lear + Sherrie Wolf

Jill Lear is a painter whose primary subject and inspiration are trees in the landscape as a means of transcribing not only the experience of being in, and thinking about nature but also the way in which we process the world around us. She is currently at work on a series called “urban sprawl: trees in cities.”

Sherrie Wolf was born in Portland, Oregon in 1952 where she resides and paints today. She uses the classic paintings by old masters as a backdrop for her own still life compositions. Sherrie arranges fresh fruit and flowers in the foreground and allows the older paintings to hover behind. "I have always been a still-life painter. My images openly play with the fact that art is artifice. In recent years, I have arranged objects in front of excerpts from old master paintings." Her images have evolved from a love of art history and a desire to present multiple levels of expression to her viewer.