Jennifer Sherman - Artist

Born and raised in the lowcountry in the small town of Yemassee, South Carolina, I developed a love for art as far back as I can remember. I would often spend time with my grandfather who would sketch funny pictures on sticky notes or a piece of yellow paper from his legal pad, and carve wooden airplanes with me out of scrap wood from projects my father had finished up as a carpenter. My mother also instilled a love for creativity by writing fictional short stories with me as a child. She could always turn anything into a magical adventure.

I attended Anderson University in Anderson, South Carolina where I briefly studied Architectural Drawing and Graphic Design as an Interior Design major, but decided it was not my passion. Painting was, and still is. Much of my talent in painting is self-taught and handed down from my great-grandfather who was a gifted artist. I now live and work as a full-time painter in Florence, South Carolina. 

Inspired by emotion, my native roots, light, pattern, the human mind in its relationship to nature, and visualizing beyond the naked human eye, I strive to portray a balance of ethereal abstraction with loose realism, causing one to compliment the other.