Sherry Sherwood and Eva Keller Carson at 49 West

Sherry Sherwood Bio

With a long history of familial Provincetown connections, it seems fitting that Sherry Sherwood would find her calling in the Provincetown Print. She is the descendent of several Mayflower pilgrims, her grandfather was born in Provincetown and her great-grandfather made waves as a founding member of the Beachcombers artists’ club. Growing up in this creative and free-spirited town helped forge an artistic path flooded with brilliant colors and reflective energy.Sherwood has been a white-line color woodcut artist for over forty years and is well immersed in this world-renowned artist colony of Massachusetts.The “White-line Color Woodcut” is a unique form of woodcut printing that was invented in Provincetown in 1915. The process uses only one block to achieve countless colors by the application of watercolors with a brush and then printing onto rice paper. Sherwood learned this technique in 1981 from her stepfather, Bill Evaul, the artist credited with the revival of the white-line color woodcut process. He has profoundly influenced Sherwood’s direction as an artist while encouraging the development of her own style. Using a cross between Analytical Cubism and Impressionism, Sherwood creates an easily understood abstraction that conveys the whole experience of a place or event.While continuing to travel the world, Sherwood adopts the colors and cultural influences of inspirational locales. Whether it be the Philippines, Southern Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, or United States, these experiences become the subject matter for her artwork.In addition to her art career Sherwood continues working to protect the world’s fragile ecosystems, marine wildlife, and humankind. A few of the many organizations she is involved with include: Greenpeace, The Center for Coastal Studies, Marine Mammal Stranding Network, NECWA (New England Coastal Wildlife Association), Madagascar mission work, and teaches art classes.Art aside, Sherwood also dedicates time to her amazing family, works on improving her foreign language skills, plays the piano and is an avid sailor and windsurfer.She earned her BFA (with distinction) in Printmaking from UMASS Dartmouth.

Sherry Sherwood Artist Statement

Focusing primarily on the white-line color woodcut ( aka Provincetown Print ), provides a space where I can best express myself. A painterly freedom is achieved and positively influences this traditionally restrictive printmaking process.

Combining analytical cubism with the vibrant colors of Impressionism creates an easily understood abstraction of light, energy, and motion. All while transporting the viewer, through active and expressive compositions, to the experience of a certain time and place.

Eva Keller Carson Bio

Eva Keller Carson is a professional artist/painter, living and working in Baltimore City, Maryland. Her most recent work is primarily large landscapes in oil. However, Eva’s career encompasses explorations into many media and subjects, and her practice includes plein air painting, daily sketching, studio work, commissions, and murals. Whatever Eva is working on, her paintings are characterized by strong contrasts, vibrant colors, unusual vantage points, and the play between abstraction and representation.Eva’s interest in nature stems from both her educational background, having studied fine art and earned degrees in environmental science and German literature at the University of Virginia, and her childhood of growing up in a small village in southwestern Germany with her forester father. Environmental themes in Eva’s work take the form of depicting the beauty of fragile, endangered places, like wetlands and old growth forests, with the hope of influencing the viewer to stop and to look a little longer and deeper. Eva has participated in numerous solo, group, and juried exhibitions over the years, and she continues to do so regularly.Eva’s paintings are in private collections throughout the US as well as internationally. She has spent decades as a full-time teacher, including teaching art to students with learning disabilities. After her recent retirement from full-time teaching, Eva is continuing to teach art classes and workshops to adults, although she is now primarily focused on working in her studio, ever curious to try new materials & techniques and conjuring up ideas to create new paintings.Eva also plans to continue to travel, both near and far, to visit friends & family—-painting/ sketching wherever she goes!

Eva Keller Carson Artist Statement​

I work with many media, but lately my main medium has been oil paints on canvas or cradle boards. My process involves sketches and smaller studies, that are sometimes informed by plein air studies, quick sketches done on site or photos, notes and thumbnail sketches done while traveling or being outdoors. These smaller works and sometimes combinations of smaller studies and ideas are then translated into the larger studio paintings. I’m currently painting larger landscapes in my studio, usually of wetlands/ marshes or forests and trees. I use paint spatulas, palette knives and as few brushes as possible when working large. My smaller work often combines media, such as acrylic, oil pastels and gouache. I’m drawn to bold colors and sharp contrasts and find beauty and inspiration in often overlooked places.

Their work is on display at 49 West located at 49 West St, Annapolis, MD 21401. Open daily.