Tracy Sherdahl is a visual artist and designer working in acrylics, oils and mixed media. She has an Applied Arts Diploma in Fashion Design, a Bachelor of Education and a Masters Certificate in Mindfulness Based Teaching and Learning. She worked 8 years as a fashion designer and 25 years as an educator teaching primarily through arts and technology.
She now devotes her time to bringing beauty to people’s homes through her paintings and designs. Tracy loves to paint from nature birds, flowers, animals and landscapes. She also works with pattern, line, color, shape and texture abstractly through collage.
She shows and sells her work through the Calgary Sketch and Painting Club, the Calgary Artists Studio Tour and the Calgary Retired Teachers’ Association. Most recently, Tracy Sherdahl is a student of Plein Air, honing her skills through events such as Come Paint Alberta and Canada Paints Plein Air and serving the CSPC through organizing Plein Air Paint Outs.
Tracy has studied the effects of artistic endeavors on the brain and believes collaborating creatively builds community well-being. For Tracy art is a process of combining present-moment awareness, sensory engagement and play with creative action to capture beautiful moments and memories.
Tracy Sherdahl
Avocet Reflections
Chickadee in Dogwood
Flamingo Strut, Chuburna
Rock N' Robin
Relic Saskatoon Farm
Snowy Egret in Sunny Mexico
Shuswap Swallows
Prince and Patches 2
Moraine Lake Canoes
“I make impressionist paintings of birds, animals, landscapes and flowers primarily in acrylic, oil and mixed media. I like peaceful subjects that capture a fleeting moment. These matter to me because life seems so short and I want to focus on what I love while I’m here. I marvel at the color and structure of a flower, the graceful way that light illuminates and sculpts a landscape and the charming uniqueness of each bird or animal. I frequent natural parks with my camera, sketchbook and painting gear to find inspiration. After preparatory sketches and paintings outdoors, I will return to these images to create refined compositions in my home studio. I hope to inspire others to appreciate the inherent beauty of the natural world and the power that each fond memory has to uplift the spirit. ”
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