AUTHOR'S BIOGRAPHY

As an artist, Sheryl has lived in a world of eight-inch polymer fairies and Native American drums for twenty years or more. Her early years were spent with bi-monthly trips to the library, where she started at A and read every fantasy book to Z. It was while creating fantasy creatures that she decided to bring to life the world growing in her head.

She served as a storyteller and exhibited, demonstrated and sold her artwork, all while dressed in Buckskins, at Revolutionary Rendezvous, Powwows and art fairs. During these years, she traveled coast to coast in a customized Chevy cargo van and slept in a bed in the back. She most loved to fall asleep to the sound of the drums, when exhibiting at Powwows.

Her writing and artwork have both been featured in magazines and newspapers for twenty years, as she marketed her art work, and her skills as a teacher of fine art. Her first non-fiction submission, to Good Housekeeping, won a cash award and publication. She has lectured and demonstrated in front of large art leagues, as well as taught, as an Adjunct and KEY camp art teacher, at Casper College in Wyoming. Her paintings have won over fifty awards and she won the Quill & Scroll award for journalism in high school.

She spent eighty percent of her life believing she had Dutch/German heritage, only to discover she is probably Norwegian. Her honeymoon to Oklahoma, served to dispel the family rumor of Chiricahua Apache blood. About this, she states, "I should have gone to Hawaii."

Sheryl attended two years of Pre-Law at The University of Illinois, being inducted into Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society for freshman women and an Edmond J. James Scholar. A divorce put her legal education to an end and when she returned to college, years later, she entered the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received her Bachelor's of Fine Art.

She currently operates a Fine Art studio and gallery, in Brown County, Indiana, where she sells her paintings (mostly Native American portraiture), her pottery (animals with an attitude), and her miniature Polymer Fantasy characters.

Her deepest desire would be to live in a tree, play classical violin, fly with her own wings and get a full night's sleep. She currently resides in central Indiana with her husband, three grandsons, and an irritating little Chihuahua.