ARTIST PROFILE

Daune Sheri offers an acute awareness to the discipline of portraiture.  She describes her work as emotive realism, characterized as a style of art evoking an emotional response by subtly stimulating a memory or mood. 

The artist's technique is based on a receptive thought process that embraces precise detail  through absolute observation. By accomplishing this, she dramatically portrays sensitivity to the authentic principle and identity of her subject. 

Her studies are executed  with the use of the traditional medium graphite pencil, colored pencil, pastel  and pen and ink. Due to its intricate texture, each lend a heightened realistic approach, thus creating a visually strong rendition with the end result being an aesthetic fine detailed interpretation of the subject.
 
Intensely personal, the portrait images that define Daune Sheri's body of work directly depict the importance of "being".  Through self-expression, she exposes the profound sensibilities of life and impresses on the mind portraits that are both evocative and contemplative. The artist's authentic representations identify a fundamental truth that all things are parallel.  Her portraits are meant to engage the viewer's attention and haunt one's thoughts so as to allow them a glimpse beyond the surface of her subject.

Daune Sheri is a realist of portrait art alluding to an emotional perspective both in her compositional simplicity and her strength of purpose.

ARTIST STATEMENT

In a moment of weakness, it is often said words are left unspoken.  I believe the same can be said in respect to portrait art.  A vulnerable instant arrested by pencil on paper defines "art left unspoken"…

By this account, I am influenced by the underlying truth of the soul.  Certainly, countless physical and emotional observations factor in impressing on me the complex nature of portraiture. 

As a portrait artist being receptive to the subject, I hope to depict an image that is unfaltering to the viewer.  I try to be as objective as one can be without binding myself to limitations.  My observations allow me to interpret what is perceived real and what is perceived unremarkable.  Both however, are essential in portraying a raw likeness and a strong composition. 

With unconditional honesty, I interpret what I see through a filter of what I know by hand and what I feel by heart.  My expectation is to do more than just imitate what I see but rather, if chance is on my side, be witness to that unspoken voice…

     --Daune Sheri

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