About the artist Sharon Varmette DeLorme:

The artist  grew up in the small, historic town of Ticonderoga, in the heart of the Adirondacks. She married the boy next door, and moved to the Berkshires in 1960. Her love of the hills, woods, ponds and all things “rural” fuels her creativity.

After raising a family, Sharon enjoyed a modest career in commercial art and illustration, then turned to oil painting in 2005. Mostly self-taught, her palette is sunny, her subjects peaceful, cheerful- sometimes whimsical. With no desire to capture the dark and stormy, she hopes her paintings inspire the viewer to smile, to wonder what’s down that road, beyond that barn… to wish you were there.

Sharon produces her art in a small home studio at 10 Debra Ave. in Lee, Mass. She’s had several solo exhibits at the J.P. Scolforo gallery, painted murals in the children’s reading room at the Lee Library and has participated in their annual Creative Lee Exhibit for the past six years.

She has six beautiful grand kids, enjoys gardening, which she considers another form of creating landscapes around her home… and she plays a mean harmonica when that “Forever Wild” mood comes over her.   

Landscapes are Sharon’s favorite thing.  Her realistic canvases are usually sunny, serene and full of color; her style painterly, and often include cats, dogs, cows and children.     

Still life paintings comprise a large part of her gallery wall as well. These are mainly florals, crockery, and/or rustic objects that pique her interest and beg to be captured by the brush.         

Sharon paints lighthouses and seascapes and local landmarks, but seldom shows people in her depictions.  Though she has done portraits of loved ones, she says that the face she sees is never the one seen by the poser, therefore, Amish children and their activities delight her, because their faces needn’t be included.