Deep Valley
Height: 137cm Width: 112cm
Deep Valley
Height: 137cm Width: 112cm
Incidental
Height: 137.5cm Width: 107cm
Incidental
Height: 137.5cm Width: 107cm
Ambient Night
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Ambient Night
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Gestures
Height: 152cm Width: 122cm
Gestures
Height: 152cm Width: 122cm
Blue Pools
Height: 122cm Width: 122cm
Blue Pools - interior by Woods and Warner
Height: 122cm Width: 122cm
Songs of the Zebra Finches
Height: 122cm Width: 122cm
Eyes Wide Open
Height: 122.5cm Width: 122.5cm
Eyes Wide Open insitu
Height: 122.5cm Width: 122.5cm
Limitless Blue Skies
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Garden of Eden
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Contrasting Light
Height: 138cm Width: 112cm
In the Moment
Height: 122cm Width: 183cm
Break in the Clouds
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Stillness
Height: 122cm Width: 102cm
Shaded Landscape
Height: 150cm Width: 120cm
Blue Shore
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Greener Pastures
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Ledge
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Walk this Way (in situ)
Height: 60cm Width: 55cm
Casting Shadows in situ
Height: 150cm Width: 120cm
Vivid
Height: 105cm Width: 71cm
Dawn
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Day Break
Height: 41cm Width: 51cm
Amongst the Reeds
Height: 122cm Width: 182cm
Golden Reserve
Height: 152cm Width: 122cm
Commissioned Painting in House & Garden Magazine
Height: 170cm Width: 220cm
Sharon Candy
Sharon Candy is a Sydney-based contemporary artist. Predominantly self-taught, Sharon finds freedom in creating on her own terms.
“Painting is an emotional landscape and an artistic process. Granted, I have also had the pleasure to paint with and learn from amazing talented artists: Idris Murphy, Ross Laurie, Jo Bertini, Catherine Cassidy, Tonee Messiah, and Antonia Perricone Mrljak.”
Sharon has participated in art residencies with fellow artists in the Hunter Valley, Kelton Plains, Cooma, and Ross River, NT. Sharon’s paintings are held in collections around Australia and internationally, and her works have featured in numerous publications including Inside Out Magazine, Australian House & Garden, SMH Domain Magazine, The Design Files, The Daily Telegraph Home Magazine, and Adore Magazine.
Under the Canopy of Stars
Under the Canopy of Stars is an exhibition of paintings that search to capture the essence of landscape and its contrasting rawness and beauty. The works were developed from reference diaries of paintings and drawings made while in remote areas of Australia. Ideas and emotions are instinctually processed into paintings back in the artist’s studio.
“My works change from being related to a place, to forging their own identity. Erasing the realism of the landscape to reveal image and form, deconstruction of the subject matter to allow line and mark making. The works are abstractly painted to reveal notions of landscape seen and journeyed, expressing the vastness of the land and the ever-present limitless skies of stars.” – Sharon Candy, 2022
CV
b. 1966 Sydney
Graphic Design Diploma, 1997
Painting professionally since 2003
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Under the Canopy of Stars, Art2Muse Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
2020 With Light There is Shadow, Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2018 Remote Immersion, Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2017 Montane, Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
Art Prizes
2022 Gosford Art Prize- Finalist
2019 Gosford Art Prize- Finalist
2018 Gosford Art Prize- Finalist
2018 Hunters Hill Art Prize- Finalist
2017 Hunters Hill Art Prize- Finalist
2017 Mosman Art Prize- Finalist
2016 Hunters Hill Art Prize- Finalist
2015 International Women’s Day Art Prize, Tap Gallery- Finalist
2008 North Sydney Art Prize- Finalist
2007 Northbridge Art Prize- Finalist
2001 Willoughby Art Prize- Finalist
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016
Balmain Art Show
Lindfield Art Show
St Thomas’s Art Show
2015
Balmain Art Show – Feature Artist
Lindfield Art Show – Feature Artist