Sherry Martin has been surrounded by artists all her life. She grew up on the North East shores of Georgian Bay, the youngest of a family of seven.
At the age of 16, Sherry moved from Byng Inlet, Ontario to attend the Etobicoke School of the Arts (ESA) in Toronto. After receiving advanced standing into grade 11, she studied drawing, painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture. As a Fine Art Major who graduated at the top of her class, Sherry was accepted into the Ontario College of Art (OCA now OCADU). Sherry studied Fine Art in preparation for the Florence Italy exchange program, when, with the birth of her child, she turned her focus to commercial arts, specifically, Advertising.
Over the course of Sherry’s career, her work has been cited in Marketing Magazine, The Advertising and Design Club of Canada Annual and Applied Arts Magazine, as well as Germany’s Archive Magazine, Communication Arts out of California and the New York Festival. After working at top agencies in the Canadian advertising industry, owning her own shop and having been lured back to her alma mater (OCADU) to teach, Sherry now turns her focus back to Fine Art.
Sherry Martin works from life. By focusing on the human figure, portraiture, still life and landscape, she practices observation while depicting classical ideals of beauty. Through an Atelier style study, academic lineage can be traced back through the Renaissance to Classical painting, affording knowledge from a long line of Masters such as Michelangelo, Raphael and Bellini through Caravaggio, Matisse, Sargent and Rockwell. In Sherry’s pursuit of Classical Realists, she joins the new movement to keep old world techniques alive and maintain a better understanding of fine art.
Sherry’s work is heavily influenced by her enjoyment of good food culture, music and dance, animals, world history from a Celtic perspective and wine. Sherry Martin’s work hangs in public institutions, galleries and private collections throughout Canada.
